The 4th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications
(AICCSA 2006)

March 8-11, 2006, Millennium Hotel, Sharjah, UAE

Table of Contents

General Chair’s Welcome Message ...................................................................................... 1

Program Chair’s Welcome Message...................................................................................... 2

Financial Sponsors................................................................................................................. 3

Committees........................................................................................................................... 4

Keynote Speakers................................................................................................................. 7

Program at a Glance ........................................................................................................... 13

Final Technical Program....................................................................................................... 15

Tutorials ............................................................................................................................. 28

Program and Track Committees .......................................................................................... 36

Abstracts:

Software Foundations

Modeling Redundancy: Quantitative and Qualitative Models..................................................... 43

Ali Mili…………New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Frederick T Sheldo…………Oak Ridge National Lab, USA

Lan Wu…………New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Mark Shereshevsky and Jules Desharnais

Contribution to the Formal Checking of Multi-Agents Systems................................................. 43

F. Belal…………Université Mentouri de Constantine, Algeria

A. Boucherit…………Universitaire d’ Oum El Bouaghi, Algeria

Synchronizing Transitions Preemptive Time Petri Nets: A new model towards specifying

Multimedia Requirement........................................................................................................ 44

A. Abdelli and N. Badache…………Algiers USTHB Universiy, Algeria

Adaptive Search in a Semi-structured Peer-to-Peer System..................................................... 44

Christof Squarr, Jens Bruhn, and Guido Wirt…………

………… Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Germany

Formal Specification of Design Patterns and Their Instances................................................... 45

Toufik Taibi…………United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Fathi Taibi…………University of Tun Abdul Razak, Malaysia

Networking Quality of Service

QoS Assurance of Handover TCP Flows in a DiffServ-enabled Mobile Wireless Access

Network............................................................................................................................... 49

Li Huang and Muhammad Jaseemuddin…………Ryerson University, Canada

Hesham El-Sayed…………UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE

QoS Management and Real Time Agreement Protocols for Resource Reservation for

Multimedia Mobile Radio Network......................................................................................... 50

Sonia Ben Rejeb, Zièd Choukair and Sami Tabbane

…………Ecole Supérieure des Communications de Tunis, Tunisia

QoS Extensions to Mobile Ad Hoc Routing Supporting Real-Time Applications......................... 51

Károly Farkas, Dirk Budk and Bernhard Plattner

…………Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

Oliver Wellnit and Lars Wolf……….Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany

Enhanced Class-based Packet Scheduling Policy for QoS Provisioning in Multimedia Cellular Networks 52

Tarek Bejaoui…………Université Paris Sud, France

Nidal Nasser…………University of Guelph – Canada

Véronique Vèque…………Ecole Supérieure des Communications de Tunis, Tunisia

ATHOMIC: Architecture managing Tcp Handoff Over Mobile Ip Connections........................ 53

Jalel Ben-othman…………Universit´e de Versailles, France

Lynda Mokdad…………Universit´e de Paris Dauphine, France

Octavio Ramirez…………Universit´e de Versailles, France

VLSI Arithmetic

A CAD Tool for Scalable, Variable Architecture Floating-Point Adder Generator..................... 57

A. J. Al-Khalili............Concordia University,Canada

High-Speed Redundant Modulo 2n-1 Adder............................................................................ 57

F. Kharbash and G. M. Chaudhry……..University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA

Low Power Hierarchical Multiplier and Carry Look-Ahead Architecture.................................. 58

Himanshu Thapliyal, Neela Gopi, K.K Pavan Kumar and M.B Srinivas

…………International Institute of Information Technology, India

Pipelining GF (P) Elliptic Curve Cryptography Computation..................................................... 58

Adnan Abdul-Aziz Gutub, Mohammad K. Ibrahim, and Ahmad Kayali

……….. King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia

Novel Reversible Multiplier Architecture Using Novel Reversible TSG Gate............................. 59

Himanshu Thapliyal and M.B Srinivas

…………International Institute of Information Technology, India

Algorithms I

Parallel Online Ranking of Web Pages................................................................................... 63

Y. Ganji Saffar, K. Sheykh Esmaili, M. Ghodsi, H. Abolhassani

…………Sharif University of Technology, Iran

Internet Traffic Modeling Using Integer-Valued Time Series................................................... 63

Z. Liu, J. Almhana, V. Choulakian and R. McGorman

Parallel Implementation of the PML Algorithm for Truncating Finite-Difference Time-Domain Grids 64

Omar Ramadan and Oyku Akaydin…….Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey

On Compactly Encoding With Differential Compression.......................................................... 64

Fouad B. Chedid and Pauline G. Mouawad………..Notre Dame University, USA

A Priority-Based MLFQ Scheduler for CPU Power Saving..................................................... 65

Muhammad Kashif, Tarek Helmy and Emad El-Sebakhy

………….King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia

Security Image Analysis

Fusion of Thermal and Visual Images for efficient Face Recognition using Gabor Filter............. 69

Jahanzeb Ahma and Usman Ali

…………COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan

Rashid Jalal Qureshi…………Université François-Rabelais de Tours, France

Face and Fingerprint Biometrics Integration Model for Person Identification Using

Gabor Filter.......................................................................................................................... 69

Iftikhar Ali, Usman Ali, Muhammad Imran Shahzad and Abdul Waheed Malik

…………COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan

Ragged-Edge Array Coding for Reliable and Efficient Storage Arrays..................................... 70

Q. M. Malluhi and M. F. Malouhi…………Data Reliability,USA.

An Experimental and Industrial Experience: Avoiding Denial of Service via Memory

Profiling............................................................................................................................... 70

Saeed Abu-Nimeh, Suku Nair and Marco Marchetti

…………Southern Methodist University, USA

Embedded Vision Module for Robot-soccer............................................................................ 71

Andrzej Sluze and Phung Khoi Duy Minh

…………Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Software Web Services

Regression Testing for Web Services based Applications........................................................ 75

Abbas Tarhini…………Universite de Reims Champagne–Ardenne, France

Hacene Foucha…………Universite des Antilles et de Guyan, France

Nashat Mansour…………Lebanese American University, Lebanon

A Categorization Scheme for Semantic Web Search Engines................................................... 76

Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili and Hassan Abolhassani

…………Sharif University of Technology, Iran

Automated Context-Aware Adaptation of Web Service Executions......................................... 76

N.C. Narendra and Srinivas Gundugola…………IBM Software Labs India

DaSIAn: A Tool for Estimating the Impact of Database Schema Modifications on WEB Applications 77

S. K. Gardikiotis and N. Malevris

…………Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

Web Service discovery based on Quality of Service................................................................ 78

Yannis Makripoulias, Christos Makris, Yiannis Panagis, Evangelos Sakkopoulos,
Poulia Adamopoulou and Athanasios Tsakalidis…….University of Patras, Greece

Networking Foundations

Restricted Shortest Path Routing with Concave Costs............................................................. 81

Pejman Khadivi, Shadrokh Samavi and Hossein Saidi

…………Isfahan University of Technology, Iran

Loss Rates Bounds for IP Switches in MPLS Networks......................................................... 82

Hind Castel-Taleb…………GET/INT/SAMOVAR, France

Lynda Mokdad…………Universit´e Paris Dauphine, France

Nihal Pekergin…………Universit´e de Versailles, France

On the Fault Patterns Properties in the Torus Networks.......................................................... 83

M. Hoseiny Farahabady and F. Safaei

…………Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics,, Iran

A. Khonsar…………University of Tehran, Iran

M. Fathy…………Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran

Fair Channel Quality-Based Scheduling Scheme for HSDPA System....................................... 84

Bader Al-Manthari............Queen’s University, Canada

Nidal Nasser............University of Guelph, Canada

Hossam Hassanein.............Queen’s University, Canada

A New MPLS-based Local Failure Recovery for Multicast Communication............................. 84

Omar Banimelhem, Anjali Agarwal and J. William Atwood

…………Concordia University, Canada

VLSI Reconfigurable Computing

A Reconfigurable Gaissian/Triangular Basis Functions Computation Circuit.............................. 87

Muhammad Taher Abuelma’ati and Abdullah Shwehneh

…………King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia

Comparison of Multipliers Architectures through Emulation and Handle-C FPGA Implementation 87

Mahmoud A. Al-Qutayri, Hassan R. Barada and Ahmed Al-Kindi

…………Etisalat University College, Sharjah, UAE

An Optimized Design Approach for Squaring Large Integers Using Embedded Hardwired Multipliers 88

Shuli Gao, Noureddine Chabini, Dhamin Al-Khalili

…………Royal Military College of Canada, Canada

Pierre Langlois…………École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada

High Speed Hardware Implementation of a Heuristic 2D Rectangle Placement

Algorithm............................................................................................................................ 88

Amina Y. Maarouf…………Lebanese American University, Lebanon

Issam W. Damaj…………Hariri Canadian Academy for Sciences and Technology, Lebanon

Accurate Total Static Leakage Current Estimation in Transistor Stacks.................................... 89

Hussam Al-Hertani, Dhamin Al-Khalili and Cˆome Rozon

…………Royal Military College of Canada, Canada

Bioinformatics

Computational Analysis of Mass Spectrometry Data Using Novel Combinatorial Methods......... 93

A. Fadiel…………Yale University School of Medicine, USA

M. A. Langston, X. Peng and A. D. Perkins…………University of Tennessee, USA

H. S. Taylor, O. Tuncalp, D. Vitello, P. Pevsner and F. Naftolin

…………Yale University School of Medicine, USA

A New Recombination Scheme for Diploid Genetic Algorithms............................................... 94

Mayada F. Abdul-Halim…………University of Bahrain, Iraq

Abbas F. Abdul-Kader…………Informatics Institute for Higher Studies, Iraq

Evaluation of Breast Cancer Tumor Classification with Unconstrained Functional Networks Classifier 94

E. El-Sebakhy, K. Faisal, T. Helmy, F. Azzedin and A. Al-Suhaim

…………King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arab

Modification of Mammograms for Early Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Using Wavelet and Neural

Networks............................................................................................................................. 95

A.R. Zolghadrasli, and Zahra Maghsoodzadeh…………Shiraz University, Iran

Protein Secondary Structure Reduction Methods Significantly Affect Prediction Accuracy........ 95

Saad Osman Abdalla Subair………… Al Ghurair University, UAE

Security Trust

Avoiding Denial of Service via Stress-testing.......................................................................... 99

Saeed Abu-Nimeh, Suku Nair and Marco Marchetti

…………Southern Methodist University, USA

Hidden Field equations Cryptosystem Performances............................................................... 99

Omessaad Hamdi and Ammar Ouallegue…………SYSCOM Laboratory, Tunisia

Sami Harari…………SIS Laboratory, France

A Trust Framework for Pervasive Computing Environments.................................................. 100

Steven T. Wolfe and Sheikh I. Ahamed…………Marquette University, USA

Mohammad Zulkernine…………Queen’s University, Canada

Trust Ontology for Service-Oriented Environment................................................................. 101

Farookh Khadeer Hussain and Elizabeth Chang

………..Curtin University of Technology, Australia

Tharam S. Dillon…………University of Technology, Australia

Secure Mobile Agent System for E-Business Applications..................................................... 101

A. Kannammal…………Coimbatore Institute of Technology, India

V. Ramachandran…………Anna University, India

N.Ch.S.N. Iyengar…………Vellore Institute of Technology, India

Software Architectures and Models

Software Defect Prediction using Regression via Classification.............................................. 105

S. Bibi, G. Tsoumaka, I. Stamelos and I. Vlahavas

…………Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Compositional Specification of Event-Based Software Architectural Styles............................. 105

Imen Loulou, Ahmed Hadj Kacem, Mohamed Jmaiel……..University of Sfax, Tunisia

Khalil Drira…………LAAS-CNRS, France

Software Product Line Engineering and Dynamic Customization of a Radio Frequency

Management System........................................................................................................... 106

Hassan Gomaa and Mazen Saleh …………George Mason University, USA
Comprehensive Software Development Model................................................................... 106

Muhammad Sibghatullah Siddiqui, Syed Jafar Hussain and. Syed Jamal Hussain

Mohammad Ali …………Jinnah University, Pakistan

The Branding Analysis Pattern............................................................................................. 107

H.A. Sanchez ^and M.E. Fayad…………San Jose State University, USA

DEPICT: A High-Level Formal Language for Modelling Constraint Satisfaction Problems....... 107

Abdulwahed Abbas…………University Of Balamand, Lebanon

Edward Tsang…………University of Essex, UK

Ahmad Nasri…………American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Networking Performance Evaluation

Performance Evaluation of Reservation Medium Access Control in IEEE 802.16 Networks.... 111

Ahmed Doha, Hossam Hassanein and Glen Takahara……..Queen's University, Canada

An Uplink Performance Evaluation for Roaming-Based Multi-Operator WCDMA Cellular

Networks........................................................................................................................... 112

Salman Al-Qahtani and Uthman Baroudi

…………King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia

Architecture and Performance Analysis of the Multicast Balanced Gamma Switch for

Broadband Communications................................................................................................. 112

Cheng Li, R. Venkatesan and H. M. Heys

………… Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Access Channel Performance in CDMA2000....................................................................... 113

Mohamed G. El-Tarhuni…………American University of Sharjah, UAE

Performance Evaluation in Cellular (CDMA) System Using Smart Antenna with Adaptive

Sectoring Method................................................................................................................ 113

A. R. Zolghadrasli, Arif Hussain Baba, Sh. Golbahar Haghighi and

Basharat Amin Shah………… Shiraz University, Iran

System Performance Analysis of Hybrid Direct Sequence Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum

Multiple Access Communication System Using Support Vector Machines.............................. 114

Mohammad AR Khan and Dingrong Shao

…………Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautic, China

VLSI Design & Test

Novel Heuristic and Genetic Algorithms for the VLSI Test Coverage Problem....................... 117

Walid Ibrahim, Amr El-Chouem and Hesham El-Sayed……… UAE University, UAE

Exciting Stuck-Open faults in CMOS Circuits Using ILP Techniques..................................... 117

Fadi Aloul and Assim Sagahyroon…………American University of Sharja- UAE

Bashar Al Rawi…………American University in Dubai, UAE

Femto Joule Switching for Nano Electronics......................................................................... 118

Valeriu Beiu…………United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Jabulani Nyathi…………Washington State University, USA

Snorre Aunet…………University of Oslo, Norway

Mawahib Sulieman………… United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Multiplexing Schemes in Single-Electron Technology............................................................. 118

Mawahib H. Sulieman and Valeriu Beiu…….United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Semi-Algorithmic Random Test Pattern Generation............................................................... 119

Hadi Shahriar Shahhoseini……..Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran

Babak Hosseini Kazerouni………… Shahid Beheshti University Iran

A Highly Adaptive Acoustic Echo Cancellation Solution for VoIP Conferencing Systems........ 119

Umar Iqbal Choudhry, JongWon Kim and Hong Kook Kim

…………Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea

Data Mining I

A Scalable Sequential Pattern Mining Algorithm.................................................................... 123

Jiahong Wang, Yoshiaki Asanuma, Eiichiro Kodama and Toyoo Takata

…………Iwate Prefectural University, Japan

A Performance Comparison of Pattern Discovery Methods on Web Log Data....................... 124

Murat Ali Bayir, Ismail H. Toroslu and Ahmet Cosar

………… Middle East Technical University, Turkey

FastLMFI: An Efficient Approach for Local Maximal Patterns Propagation and Maximal

Patterns Superset Checking................................................................................................. 124

Shariq Bashir and A. Rauf Baig

…………National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan

The N-tree: an Indexing Technique for Nearest-Neighbor Queries......................................... 125

Faiza Najjar and Hassenet Slimani……National School of Computer Science, Tunisia

Multi-Channel Communication for Wireless Database........................................................... 126

Shane Emmons and Mudasser F. Wyne…………University of Michigan, USA

An Improved Current Mirror Cell......................................................................................... 126

Munir A. Al-Absi…….King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia

Security Foundations

Formal Methods in the Enhancement of the Data Security Protocols of Mobile Agents............ 129

Raja Al-Jaljouli …………University of New South Wales Australia

Access Control with Prohibitions and Obligations.................................................................. 129

Philippe Balbiani, Fatima Harb and Ali Kaafarani…Universit´e Paul Sabatier, France

The Best Irreducible Pentanomials For A Mastrovito GF Multiplier........................................ 130

Mohsen Bahramali and Hadi Shahriar Shahhoseini

……..Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran

Predicting the Dynamic Nature of Risk................................................................................. 130

Omar Khadeer Hussain , Elizabeth Chang and Farookh Khadeer Hussain

…………Curtin University of Technology, Australia

Tharam S. Dillon………... University of Technology, Australia

Ben Soh ………… La Trobe University, Australia

Trust Relationships and Reputation Relationships for Service Oriented Environments............... 131

Farookh Khadeer Hussain and Elizabeth Chang

…………Curtin University of Technology, Australia

Tharam S.Dillon…………University of Technology, Australia

Design of an Embedded System for Surface Roughness Measurement................................... 131

Tarik Ozkul…………American University of Sharjah, UAE

Software Agents

Towards Intentional Agents to Manipulate Belief, Desire and Commitment Degrees............... 135

Adel Saadi and Zaidi Sahnoun………… Mentouri University, Algeria

Agent Design Patterns Framework for MaSE/POAD Methodology....................................... 135

Radziah Mohamad and Safaai Deris……. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Hany H. Ammar………… West Virginia University, USA

GeneCity: A Multi Agent Simulation Environment for Hereditary Diseases............................. 136

Demetrios G. Eliades, Andreas L. Symeonidis and Pericles A. Mitkas

…………Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

An Innovative Self-Configuration Approach for Networked Systems and Applications............. 137

Huoping Chen, Salim Hariri and Fahd Rasul…………University of Arizona, USA

Stable Analysis Patterns...................................................................................................... 137

Haitham S. Hamza…………University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Mohamed E. Fayad…………San Jose State University, USA

Networking Efficiency

Power Efficient Algorithms for Computing Fast Fourier Transform over Wireless

Sensor Networks................................................................................................................ 141

Turkmen Canli and Ashfaq Khokhar……..University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Ajay Gupta…………Western Michigan University, USA

Power Allocation and Coding for Image Transmission over Wireless Channels....................... 141

Akram Bin Sediq and Mohamed El-Tarhuni……American University of Sharjah, UAE

An Energy Efficient MAC Approach for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks........................... 142

Prasad Raviraj, Hamid Sharif, Michael Hempel and Song Ci

…………University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Efficient Service Discovery for Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks....................................... 143

Yu Yang, Hossam Hassanein and Afzal Mawji……….Queen’s University, Canada

Toward the Mobile Grid: Service Provisioning in a Mobile Dynamic Virtual Organization......... 143

Martin Waldburger…………Universität Zürich, Switzerland

Burkhard Stiller…………ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Data Mining II

Development of Hybrid Classification Methodology for Mining Skewed Data Sets – A Case

Study of Indian Customs Data.............................................................................................. 147

Anuj Kumar………..Indian Revenue Services (Customs & Central Excise) India

Vishnuprasad Nagadevara…………Indian Institute of Management, India

Mining N-most Interesting Itemsets using Support-Ordered Tries........................................... 147

Muhammad Umer Arshad, Muhammad Naeem Ayyaz

…………University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan

Evaluation of Cluster Analysis Algorithms Enhanced by Using R*-Trees................................ 148

Jiaxiong Pi, Yong Shi and Zhengxin Chen…….University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA

Functionally Classifying Genes from Microarray Data Using Linear and Non-linear Data

Projection........................................................................................................................... 148

J. Shaik and M. Yeasin………… University of Memphis, USA

Distributed Computing for Formation Flying Missions............................................................. 149

Abdul-Halim Jallad and Tanya Vladimirova…………University of Surrey, UK

Algorithms II

A Novel Corner Detector Approach using Sliding Rectangles................................................ 153

Asif Masood…………University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan

Muhammad Sarfraz……King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia

On Line Learning: Evolving in Real Time a Neural Net Controller of 3D-robot-arm:

Track and Evolve................................................................................................................ 153

A. Lehireche…………University Djilali Liabès, Algeria

A. Rahmoun…………King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

The vMatrix: Equi-Ping Game Server Placement For Pre-Arranged First-Person-Shooter

Multiplayer Matches............................................................................................................ 154

Amr Awadallah and Mendel Rosenblum………… Stanford University, USA

Reputation Relationship and Its Inner Relationships for Service Oriented Environments........... 155

Farookh Khadeer Hussain and Elizabeth Chang

…………Curtin University of Technology, Australia

Tharam S.Dillon…………University of Technology, Australia

Topological Properties of Stretched Graphs........................................................................... 155

P. Shareghi and H. Sarbazi-Azad

............Sharif University of Technology and IPM School of Computer Science, Iran

Embedded Systems I

An Automated System for Real Time Fault Localization in Optical Networks.......................... 159

C. B. Yahya…………University of Sharjah, UAE

The Indeterministic Behavior of Scoped Memory in Real-Time Java...................................... 159

M. Teresa Higuera-Toledano…………Ciudad Universitaria, Spain

Cache Optimization for Embedded Systems Running H.264/AVC Video Decoder................... 160

Abu Asaduzzaman and Imad Mahgoub…………Florida Atlantic University, USA

A Probability-Based Instruction Combining Method for Scheduling in VLIW Processors......... 160

R. Iraji and H. Sarbazi-Azad

…………Sharif University of Technology & IPM School of Computer Science, Iran.

Serpent Cryptography on Static and Dynamic Reconfigurable Hardware................................ 161

Issam Damaj……….Canadian Academy for Science and Technology, Lebanon

May Itani, and Hassan Diab………..American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Software Tools

Refactoring Tools and Complementary Techniques............................................................... 165

Martin Drozdz, Derrick G Kourie, Bruce W Watson and Andrew Boake

…………University of Pretoria, South Africa

TOPER: A Tool Using Integrated Knowledge Reporting and Usability Methods...................... 165

Osama Alshara………… HCT, ADWC, UAE

CoMet: a Tool Using CUMM to Measure Components’ Unused Members............................ 166

Hamdan Msheik and Alain Abran…………Université du Québec, Canada

Hamid Mcheick…………Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada

Dimitrios Touloumis…………Université du Québec, Canada

Adel Khelifi…………Alhosn Universit, UAE

Using Change Propagation Probabilities to Assess Quality Attributes of Software

Architectures...................................................................................................................... 167

I Shaik, W. Abdelmoez, R. Gunnalan, M. Shereshevsky, A. Zeid and H.H. Ammar

………… West Virginia University, USA

A. Mili.............................................................. New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

C. Fuhrman................................................... Ecole de technologie supérieure, Canada

Session Management System for Collaborative Applications in Interactive Grid....................... 168

Hui Wang, Hai Jin, Pingpeng Yuan and Liping Pang

…………Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Networking Cellular

An Adaptive Multi-Guard Channel Scheme for Multi-Class Traffic in Cellular Networks......... 171

Muhammed Salamah............ Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey

An Uplink Admission Control for 3G and Beyond Roaming Based Multi-Operator Cellular

Wireless Networks with Multi-Services................................................................................ 172

Uthman Baroudi and Salman Al-Qahtani

............ King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia

A Survey of Advances in Multi-User Detection in DS-CDMA............................................... 173

Syed Ismail Shah and Muhammad Naeem…………Iqra University, Pakistan

Asrar U.H. Sheikh…………KFUPM, Saudi Arabia

Habibullah Jama…………University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan

Jamil Ahmad…………Iqra University, Pakistan
Throughput of ARQ Protocols Over Nakagami and MIMO Block Fading Channels................ 174

Salam A. Zummo…….King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia

Distributed Fault Management Protocol for Heterogeneous Networks.................................... 174

G. Deprez, M. Padmara and S. Nair…………Southern Methodist University, USA

Database and Web Technologies

An Object-Oriented Configurable Framework for Real-time Database Simulation

Environment....................................................................................................................... 177

S. Tanwani…………Devi Ahilya University, India

A.K. Ramani………… King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

An Overview of MOA, a Multi-class Overload Architecture for Real-time Database Systems:

Framework and Algorithms.................................................................................................. 177

Leila Baccouche……. National Institute of Applied Science and Technology, Tunisia

Classification Rules for Pre-Analysis Filtering of Web Transactions....................................... 178

Omar H. Karam, Ahmad M. Hamad and Wedad H. Riad

…………Ain Shams University, Egypt

Towards Ontology-Based Semantic Web from Data-Intensive Web: a Reverse

Engineering Approach......................................................................................................... 178

Sidi Mohamed Benslimane, Mimoun Malki and Ahmed Lehirech

…………University of Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria

WAP and Push Technology Integrated into Mobile Commerce Applications........................... 179

Jihad Qaddour …………Illinois State University, USA

Multimedia Video

Evolutionary Colorization of Grayscale Images...................................................................... 183

Aminna Dahim Aboud and Bara'a Ali Attea…………University of Baghdad, Iraq

Robust Color Video De-noising............................................................................................ 183

Tamer Rabie…………United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Constructing Precise Geometric Models of Virtual Environments using Image based View Synthesis 184

S. Ajith………….KCG College of Technology, India

Naren Athmaraman…………SSN College of Engineering, India

Study of Reneging Behavior in Batched Multimedia............................................................... 184

Vrinda Tokekar and Sanjiv Tokekar…………Devi Ahilya University, India

A.K.Ramani…………King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

An Extended Media Framework for Multiparty Collaborative Environments............................ 185

Sangwoo Han, Namgon Kim, JaeYoun Kim and JongWon Kim

…………Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

Embedded Systems II

A Wireless Embedded System for Tracking of Stolen Vehicles.............................................. 189

Mohammed A. Mustafa, Mohammad Behnam and Mohamed El-Tarhuni

…………American University of Sharjah, UAE

Grid Overlay for Remote E-Health Monitoring ..................................................................... 190

Wail M. Omar…………Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Bassam A. Ahmad…………Sohar University, Sultanate of Oman

A. Taleb-Bendiab…………Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Formal Development Method of Control Systems using the Event Based B Approach

Case Study: A Parcel Sorting Device................................................................................... 191

Olfa Mosbahi Jacques and Jemni Ben Ayed…..University Tunis El Manar II, Tunisia

Jacque Jaray…………INRIA Lorraine, France

A System for Web Retrieval of Images and the Corresponding Annotations............................ 192

Hiroshi Idehara…………Osaka University, Japan

Hiroshi Takeno…………NTT-Resonant, Japan

Noriyuki Fujimoto and Kenichi Hagihara…………Osaka University, Japan

A Practical Fair-Exchange E-Payment Protocol with Anonymity Protection............................ 193

Q. Zhang, K. Markantonakis and K. Maye…………University of London, UK

Software Mobile Systems

Allocation and Re-Allocation of Data in a Grid using an Adaptive Genetic Algorithm............... 197

Hamed Siefoddini, Khaled El-Fakih and Jalal Kawash

…………American University of Sharjah, UAE

Nashat Mansour…………Lebanese American University, Lebanon

Towards a Model-Based Unification of Mobile Platforms...................................................... 197

László Lengyel, Tihamér Levendovszky, Gergely Mezei, Bertalan Forstner and

Hassan Charaf………Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

A Complex Applications Framework Supporting Tolerant Dynamic Vehicle Dispatching.......... 198

Ilham Benyahia…………Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada

Jean-Yves Potvin and Ying Xu …………Université de Montréal, Canada

Enhancements of PECOS Embedded Real-Time Component Model for Autonomous Mobile

Robot Application................................................................................................................ 199

Dayang Norhayati Abang Jawawi, Safaai Deris and Rosbi Mamat

…………Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Can Cohesion Predict Fault Density?.................................................................................... 200

Adam Abubakar, Jarallah AlGhamdi and Moataz Ahmed

…………King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia

The Adoption of eCommerce Communications and Applications Technologies in Small

Businesses in New Zealand................................................................................................. 200

Nabeel Al-Qirim…………United Arab Emirates University,UAEe

Networking Miscellaneous I

On the Optimal Deployment of Heterogeneous Sensing Devices............................................ 203

Rabie Ramadan, Khaled Abdelghany and Hesham El-Rewini

…………Southern Methodist University, USA

Differentiated Survivability in Ethernet-Based MAN/WAN................................................... 203

M. Ali, G. Chiruvolu and A. Ge…………Alcatel Research & Innovation, USA

M. Padmaraj, S. Nair and M. Marchetti………… Southern Methodist University, USA

Supporting Disconnected Operations in Mobile Computing..................................................... 204

J. H. Abawajy…………Deakin University, Australia

M. Mat deris…………Tun Hussein Onn University of Technology, Malesia

Performance of MIP over WLAN in Rapid Moving Environments......................................... 205

Jun Tian and Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal…………University of Florida, USA

A Secure Framework for Distributed Agents System............................................................ 205

Lamia H. Khalid and Sarab M. Hameed…………University of Baghdad, Iraq

Hilal M. Yousif…………Al-Rafidian University, Iraq

On the Performance of Directional MAC Protocols in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks................. 206

Yuxin Pan, Walaa Hamouda and Ahmed Elhakeem……Concordia University, Canada

Database Miscellaneous I

Contextual ECATNets Semantics in Terms of Conditional Rewriting Logic............................. 209

N. Zeghib…………Université de Constantine, Algeria

K. Barkaoui…………Laboratoire CEDRIC, France

M. Bettaz…………Philadelphia University, Jordan

Arabic Search Engines Improvement: A New Approach using Search Key Expansion

Derived from Arabic Synonyms Structure............................................................................. 209

Hayder K. Al Ameed, Shaikha O. Al Ketbi, Amna A. Al Kaabi, Khadija S. Al Hebli,

Naila F. Al Shamsi, Noura H. Al Nuaimi, Shaikha S .Al Muhairi

…………United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Crime Hot-Spots Prediction Using Support Vector Machine................................................... 210

Keivan Kianmehr and Reda Alhajj............University of Calgary, Canada

Learning acyclic rules based on Chaining Genetic Programming............................................. 210

Wing-Ho Shum and Kwong-Sak Leung.........................................................................

………… Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Man-Leung Wong…………Lingnan University, Hong Kong

A Proxy Pre-fetching Scheme for a Consistent SMIL Delivery.............................................. 211

A. Abdelli and N.Badache............USTHB University, Algeria

ARAB_TTS: An Arabic Text To Speech Synthesis.............................................................. 211

Zouhir Zemirli…………Institut National d’Informatique, Algeria

e-Learning

ICE: A System for Identification of Conflicts in Exams.......................................................... 215

Hicham Hage and Esma A. Meur…………University of Montreal, Canada

Building e-Partnership: d-Library Services for eLearning....................................................... 215

Ahmed Taha …………United Arab Emirates University, UAE

On-Line Content Analysis System using e-Learning Time Data.............................................. 216

Maomi Ueno…………Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan

Keizo Nagaoka…………Waseda University, Japan

Authoring Web-Based Learning Scenario Based on the IMS Learning Design: Preliminary

Evaluation of the Ask Learning Designer Toolkit................................................................... 217

Demetrios Sampson, Pythagoras Karampiperis and Panayiotis Zervas

…………University of Piraeus, Greece

Semantically Meaningful Unit – SMU; An Openly Reusable Learning Object for UREKA

Learning- Object Taxonomy & Repository Architecture – ULTRA........................................ 218

Imran Ihsan, Mobin-uddin Ahmed, Mohib-ur-Rehman, Mohammad Abdul Qadir

and Nadeem Iftikhar……..Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Pakistan

Educational additions to an Open Source Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) for the

Greek Schools' Network...................................................................................................... 218

Avgoustos Tsinakos……….T.E.I. of Kavala, Greece

John Papaioanou………… University of Surrey, UK

Software Miscellaneous I

Classification of Software and Hardware Bio-inspired Systems.............................................. 221

Djamel Meslati and Labiba Souici…………University of Annaba, Algeria

Saïd Ghoul…………Philadelphia University, Jordan

Adapting WordNet to the Medical Domain using Lexicosyntactic Patterns in the Ohsumed Corpus........... 222

A. Toumouh. and A. Lehireche …………University Djillali Liabès, Algeria

D. Widdows …………²MAYA Design, USA

M Malki…………University Djillali Liabès, Algeria

An Experiment in Automatic Conversion of Java to C#......................................................... 223

Mohammad El-Ramly…………University of Leicester, UK............................................

Rihab Eltayeb and Hisham A. Alla

…….….. Sudan University of Science and Technology, Sudan

Communicating Requirements for ERP Tendering, the Case of International Organizations...... 223

Ildemaro Araujo and Iván Araujo…………Canada

An Aspect-Oriented Approach in Early Requirements Engineering......................................... 224

Abdelkrim Amirat, Djamel Meslati and M.Tayeb Laskri

…………University of Annaba, Algeria

Networking Miscellaneous II

MPLS Network Topology Design Using Genetic Algorithms.................................................. 227

El-Sayed M. El-Alfy

…………King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia

A Genetic-Driven Instruction Set for High Speed Network Processors................................... 227

Hossein Mohammad and Nasser Yazdani………… University of Tehran, Iran

Dynamic Adapting of Scalable TCP Congestion Control Parameters...................................... 228

Mohamed Tekala and Robert Szabo

…………Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

An Efficient Intra Prediction Mode Decision Algorithm for H.263 to H.264 Transcoding......... 229

Mehdi Jafari…………Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran

Shohreh Kasaei…………Sharif University of Technology, Iran

A Discrete Optimal Broadcasting Protocol in an IP Network................................................. 229

Achraf Gazdar and Abdelfettah Belghith ………Université de la Manouba, Tunisia

Pervasive Computing

An Architecture for a Context-aware Service Broker in Ubiquitous Computing

Environments...................................................................................................................... 233

Yasser Ganji Saffar, Hassan Abolhassani and Rasool Jalili

…………Sharif University of Technology, Iran

Available Trust and Security in Wireless Networks............................................................... 233

S. Daskapan, J. J. Van Bergen and M. Kaart

…………Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

An Ontology-based Model for Mobile Agents Adaptation in Pervasive Environments.............. 234

Nejla Amara-Hachmi………… Université Paris 13 – CNRS UMR, France

A Privacy Preferences Architecture for Context Aware Applications ................................... 234

Amr Ali Eldin and Rene Wagenaar….Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Interoperability and Security Issues of Grid Services for Ubiquitous Computing....................... 235

Debasish Jana…………Anshin Software, India

Amritava Chaudhuri, Abhijit Datta and Bijan Bihari Bhaumik

…………Jadavpur University, India

Software Miscellaneous II

Parallel I/O Scheduling in the Presence of Data Duplication on Multiprogrammed Cluster

Computing Systems............................................................................................................. 239

J.H. Abawajy…………Deakin University, Australia

FuFaIR: a Fuzzy Farsi Information Retrieval System............................................................. 239

Amir Nayyeri…………University. of Tehran, Iran

Farhad Oroumchian…………University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE

Extending UML to Guide Design Pattern Reuse.................................................................... 240

Nadia Bouassida and Hanêne Ben-Abdallah............Université de Sfax, Tunisie

Productivity and Stability with Application Service Software.................................................. 241

Erick K. Ahrens, Hans Nehme, Michael O. Pulliam

Requirements for Evaluating Architectural Stability.............................................................. 241

Rami Bahsoon…………Aston University, UK

Wolfgang Emmerich………… University College London, UK

Software Applications

Defining Patterns Using UML Profiles................................................................................ 245

N. C. Debnath…………Winona State University, USA

A. Garis, D. Riesco and G. Montejano……Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina

Supporting the SPEM with a UML Extended Workflow Metamodel.................................. 246

Narayan Debnath………..Winona State University, USA

Daniel Riesco and German Montejano….Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina

Manuel Perez Cota, J. Baltasar García Perez-Schofield…..Universidad de Vigo, Spain

Daniel Romero and Marcelo Uva……..Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Argentina

A Comparative Analysis of Maintainability Approaches for Web Applications......................... 247

Emad Ghosheh, Jihad Qaddour, Matthew Kuofie and Sue Black

Improving Software Quality through Requirements Traceability Models.................................. 247

Ahmed M. Salem………… California State University, USA

Database and Mobile Communications

Role Based Approach to Data Access in Adhoc Networks.................................................... 251

Qurban A. Memon and M. Shakeel Laghari……..United Emirates University, UAE

Games over Bluetooth......................................................................................................... 251

Aqib Mumtaz and Faisal Tehseen Shah…………Pakistan

Primitive Operations of Hyper-Graph Data Model for Distributed Database Integration........... 252

Srikrishnan Sundaresan and Gongzhu Hu……..Central Michigan University, USA

Embedding Rules in a Pre-Hospital Mobile Database............................................................. 253

Nada Hashmi, Dan Corwin, Dan Myung, Mark Gaynor, Valmeek Kudesia and

Will Tollefsen……..10Blade, USA

Shankaranarayanan Ganesan……..Boston University School of Management, USA

Steve Moulton……..10Blade, USA

Hierarchical Approach to Select Feature Vectors for Classification of Text Documents.......... 253

Nagesh Kapalavayi, S.N.Jayaram Murthy and Gongzhu Hu

………..Central Michigan University, USA

AICCSA 2006 is pleased to announce that it will be Under the Patronage and With the Attendance of His Highness

Dr. Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qassimi, Ruler of Sharjah,

Supreme Council Member, and President of the American University of Sharjah

AICCSA 2006 General Chair’s

Welcome Message

It is my pleasure to welcome you to Sharjah, UAE on March 8-11, 2006 for The 4^th IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications
(AICCSA 2006). We are very fortunate to have so many talented and well recognized people involved in the process of submitting papers, chairing tracks, workshops, and reviewing papers. We also feel grateful for the support we received from the IEEE Computer Society financial and technical sponsorships. Above all, we are very delighted and thankful that His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qassimi, Ruler of Sharjah and Dr. Winfred Thompson, AUS Chancellor, will participate with us the first day during the opening session of the conference.

We had an overwhelming number of paper submissions this year. This was attributed to the very strong technical committee that worked so hard to make the conference advertisement reach so many people. Also the strong commitment of many of the track chairs was outstanding. After the submission deadline, they worked so hard with their TPC members to turn around a very high standard review that led to the strong technical program before you.

We are very proud of the technical program we have and assure you that you will find it very stimulating, informative and inspiring. In addition to the great technical sessions, we have 7 Tutorials and 4 high-profile keynote speakers. I invite you to attend and interact with the keynote speakers as they are all distinguished in their fields.

Last but not least, I would like to extend my sincere thanks and appreciation to the exceptional work rendered by all track organizers as well as the workshop chairs and their TPC members who made a high quality review under a tight schedule. A list of all of those involved is given in the next few pages. Special thanks to The American University of Sharjah (AUS), Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO) and Lucent Technologies in UAE for their financial sponsorship. Special thanks also go to the program chair, Dr. Mike Langston; the Registration Chair, Dr. Sherif Yehia, the local chairs, Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Ali and Dr. Eesa Bastaki; the Tutorial chairs, Dr. Kassem Saleh and Dr. Nidal Nasser; the Poster Chair, Dr. Hossam Hassanein; all Track and Workshop Chairs; Publicity Chairs; the Conference Coordinator, Ms. Suzanne Baktash; and the conference webmaster, Mr. Bobby Maisnam.

I invite all of you to join us and interact with experts in the computer systems and applications field from all around the world. This will be a memorable experience you will never forget.

Mohsen Guizani, General Chair, AICCSA 2006

Western Michigan University, USA
January, 2006

AICCSA 2006 Program Chair’s

Welcome Message

It is a privilege to serve as Program Chair for AICCSA 2006. The scope of this meeting is truly international. Contributing authors this year hail from the following 48 countries: Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Cyprus, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tehran, Tunisia, Turkey, the UAE, UK, Ukraine, and the USA.

Papers were solicited in the following technical areas: Algorithms and Bioinformatics, Database and Data Mining, Embedded Systems, e-Learning, Multimedia, Networking and Wireless Technology, Security and Information Assurance, Software Engineering and Applications, and VLSI Circuits, Systems Applications and Signal Processing. A total of 405 submissions were received. From these, 150 were selected as regular papers. Another 50 were accepted as short papers. Authors represent a variety of academic, industrial and governmental organizations. Thanks go to all those who contributed their work.

Thanks also go to the General Chair, Mohsen Guizani, and to the Track Chairs: Abdul-Rahman Al-Ali, Mike Atallah, Kamel Barkaoui, Mohamed A Imam, Marco Marchetti, Jianping Pan, Ghassan Qadah, Surong Zeng and Imran Zualkernan. Their leadership has been instrumental in making AICCSA 2006 a success. Thanks go as well to the Program Committee Members and other reviewers who have made it possible to craft the final slate of high-quality technical papers. It is only through their tireless efforts that conferences such as this are possible.

Finally, special thanks go to Suzanne Baktash and Bobby Maisnam. Suzanne has been the consummate Conference Coordinator. Her skill in seamlessly managing diverse requirements has been indispensable, and has made my job so much easier. Bobby has been the ideal Conference Webmaster. His technical ability has kept the automated system responsive to user needs, and ensured that the reviewing machinery has run smoothly and continuously.

Michael A. Langston

Program Chair, AICCSA 2006

The University of Tennessee, USA

January, 2006

AICCSA 2006 Financial Sponsors

The Organizers and Steering Committee of AICCSA 2006 highly appreciates the financial and moral support of The American University of Sharjah (AUS), the Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO) and Lucent Technologies UAE.

American University of Sharjah (AUS) was founded in 1997 by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qassimi, Member of the Supreme Council of the UAE and Ruler of Sharjah. American University of Sharjah is an independent, not-for-profit coeducational institution. AUS is emerging as a leading comprehensive coeducational university in the Gulf, serving students from the region and around the world. AUS is licensed in the Untied States by the Department of Education of the State of Delaware. It is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. It is also licensed by the UAE Ministry of Education. AUS offers 20 bachelor's degrees, 22 minors, six master's degrees and five graduate certificate programs offered by one college and three schools: Arts and Sciences, Architecture and Design, Business and Management, and Engineering. For more information, visit: http://www.aus.edu/

Spanning over 7.2 million square meters, DSO will include design, development and manufacturing centers as well as commercial and residential areas. Funded by the Government of Dubai, the microelectronics technology park will provide business ready solutions for turnkey IC design/development facilities to the semiconductor industry. Working together with leading technology partners, DSO will become a strategic link with the Middle East region between US/Europe based companies and customers as well as business partners in the Middle and Far East. As an established Free Zone, DSO offers a highly competitive infrastructure and outstanding logistics. Our partner technology companies are focused on enabling technologies that include micro/nanoelectronics, photovoltaics, opto-electronics and biotechnology. Visit DSO at www.dso.ae

Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, Lucent uses its strengths in mobility, optical, software, data and voice networking technologies, as well as services, to create new revenue-generating opportunities for its customers, while enabling them to quickly deploy and better manage their networks. Lucent's customer base includes communications service providers, governments and enterprises worldwide.

For more information on Lucent MEA, please send e-mail to: lucentmea@lucent.com

Cisco offers the industry’s broadest range of end-to-end networking solutions used to form information networks, or to give people access to those networks. The product range includes LAN and WAN multi-service switches, routers, access solutions, IP telephony and integrated CRM solutions, web scaling and security technologies, and network management systems. Optical networking accelerates intelligent delivery of data through high-capacity optical networks. Cisco is the world-wide leader in networking for the Internet; it is estimated that over 80 percent of traffic on the global Internet passes through its networking devices. Cisco serves customers in three major markets: Enterprises, Service Providers, and Small/Medium Businesses. Visit: www.cisco.com/me
AICCSA 2006 Organizing Committee

Honorary Chair:

Sallie V. Sheppard, Former Vice Chancellor, AUS, UAE

General Chair:

Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, Michigan, USA

Program Chair:

Michael A. Langston, University of Tennessee, USA

Local Arrangements Chairs and committee:

Dr. Eesa Bastaki, Dubai Silicon Oasis, UAE

Dr. Abdul-Rahman Al-Ali, AUS, UAE

Joachim Diederich, AUS, UAE

Rana Ahmed, AUS, UAE

Assim Sagahyroon, AUS, UAE

Fadi Aloul, AUS, UAE

Mohamed El Tarhuni, AUS, UAE

Jihad Mohaidat, AUS, UAE

Jalal Kawash, AUS, UAE

Tairk Ozkul, AUS, UAE

Taha Landolsi, AUS, UAE

Ms . Lalitha Murugan, AUS, UAE

Ms. Haifa Ismail, AUS, UAE

Ms. Yara Aji, AUS, UAE

Track Chairs:

Algorithms and Bioinformatics, Mikhail Atallah, Purdue University, USA

Database and Data Mining, Ghassan Qadah, AUS, UAE

Embedded Systems, Abdul-Rahman Al-Ali, AUS, UAE

e-Learning, Imran Zualkernan, AUS, UAE

Multimedia, Jianping Pan, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Networking and Wireless Technology, Surong Zeng, Motorola, USA

Security and Information Assurance, Marco Marchetti, SMU, USA

Software Engineering and Applications, Kamel Barkaoui, CNAM/CEDRIC, France

VLSI Circuits, Systems Applications and Signal Processing, Mohamed A. Imam, Dubai Silicon Oasis, UAE

Poster Chair:

Hossam Hassanein, Queen’s University, Canada

Workshop Chairs:

Ashfaq Khoukar, University of Illinois Chicago, USA

Abdullah Ismail, UAEU, UAE

Tutorials & Panels Chairs:

Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada

Kassem Saleh, AUS, UAE

Registration and Publication Chairs:

Sherif Yehia, Western Michigan University, USA

E. K. Park, U Missouri Kansas City, USA

International Publicity Chairs:

Mohammad Al-Rousan, AUS, UAE 

Omar Al-Jarrah, JUST, Jordan

Said Abu Bakr, Western Michigan University, USA

Abdullah Al-Dhelaan, KSA, Saudi Arabia 

Karim Djouani, Universite Paris 12, France

Zohra Sbai, ENIT, Tunisia

ACS Steering Committee:

Hany Ammar, West Virginia University, USA
Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA (Chair)
Nashat Mansour, Lebanese American University, Lebanon
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
Hesham El-Rewini, SMU, USA

AICCSA 2006 Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speaker 1: Wednesday, March 8

Professor Khaled B. Letaief, IEEE Fellow
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Ubiquitous Broadband Communications: The Next Frontier

Abstract
The information communications technology has undergone revolutionary changes, which have recently led to the exponential growth of wireless and mobile services. The communication landscape will undoubtedly continue to experience spectacular developments due to the emergence of new interactive multimedia applications and highly integrated systems driven by the rapid growth in information services and microelectronic devices. So far, most of the current mobile systems are mainly targeted to voice communications with low transmission rates. In the near future, however, broadband data access at high transmission rates will be needed to provide users packet-based connectivity to a plethora of services. It is also almost certain that the neXt Generation (XG) wireless systems will consist of complementary systems with a set of different standards and technologies along with different requirements and client platforms as well as complementary capabilities that will offer users ubiquitous wireless connectivity between mobile and desktop computers, machines, game systems, cellular phones, consumer electronic products, and other hand-held devices. A key requirement in future wireless systems is their ability to provide broadband connectivity with end-to-end QoS along with a high network capacity and throughput at a low cost per bit of data services. To support the above services, a host of new issues and problems have to be addressed. This talk will discuss the challenges facing the XG ubiquitous broadband systems and then describe some of the leading enabling technologies for increasing system capacity and spectral efficiency while meeting the stringent requirements of future networks.

Speaker Biography
Professor Letaief received the Ph.D. Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, USA in 1990. From 1990 to 1993, he was a faculty member at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Since 1993, he has been with HKUST where he is a Chair Professor and Head of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department. He is also the Director of the Hong Kong Telecom Institute of Information Technology as well as the Director of the Center for Wireless Information Technology.
Dr. Letaief is an acknowledged authority in the area of wireless and mobile communications including broadband wireless data access, wideband CDMA, MIMO systems, OFDM, Cross-layer design, and beyond 3G systems. In these areas, he has published over 280 journal and conference papers and given invited and keynote talks as well as courses all over the world. He served as consultants for different organizations and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He also served on the editorial board of other journals including the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas In Communications (as Editor-in-Chief). Professor Letaief has been involved in organizing a number of major international conferences and events. He also served as the Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Personal Communications as well as a member of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Activity Council. In addition to his active research activities, Professor Letaief has also been a dedicated teacher committed to excellence in teaching and scholarship. He received the Mangoon Teaching Award from Purdue University in 1990; the Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award by the School of Engineering at HKUST (4 times); and the Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching (Highest university-wide teaching award).
He is a Fellow of IEEE, an elected member of the IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors, and an IEEE Distinguished lecturer.

Keynote Speaker 2: Wednesday, March 8

Mr. Hamid Breik, Lucent Technologies, UAE

Wireless and Mobile Technologies at Lucent

Abstract
This keynote will highlight the state of the art of wireless and mobile technologies at Lucent.

Speaker Biography
Mr. Hamdi Breik is currently working for Lucent Technologies and responsible for Mobility solutions for Middle East and Africa region. Mr. Breik has obtained his MSC degree in digital electronics since 1981. Mr. Breik has been working with Lucent Technologies for the past 10 years where he took several key positions in deploying GSM and 3G solutions. Prior to his work with Lucent, Mr. Breik worked for a couple of operators in Kuwait and Australia. His involvement in mobility started in 1985 and covered all mobility generations 1G, 2G and 3G.

Keynote Speaker 3: Thursday, March 9

Professor Hesham El-Rewini, Ph.D., P.E.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SMU

Parallelism Challenges: Rewind and Fast Forward

Abstract
Parallel processing has gone through several phases over the past few decades. From the early pessimism of Amdhal’s law, going through the proliferation of parallel systems in the late 1980s and early 1990s, to the collapse of the parallel computing industry soon after, and finally with its recent resurrection, parallel processing has experienced several ups and downs. In this lecture, we will rewind the parallel processing tape to identify critical challenges in parallel processing and discuss the factors that have driven its fluctuating change. We will also examine the role that parallel processing is playing in today’s computing platforms and offer an outlook to the future.

Speaker Biography
Dr. El-Rewini is Full Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at SMU. El-Rewini’s research interests include the areas of parallel and distributed processing, mobile computing, scheduling algorithms, and software tools. He is the co-author of five books in Computer architecture published by Wiley (2004 and 2005); parallel and distributed computing published by Prentice-Hall and Manning (1992 and 1998); and task scheduling published by Prentice Hall (1994). He is also the editor or co-editor of many conference proceeding books published by the IEEE Computer Society. His research work has resulted in numerous publications in prestigious journals and conference proceedings. Other professional activities include chairing several international conferences, participation in the editorial board of IEEE Concurrency, participation in several international program and steering committees, acting as an NSF panelist, and as a referee for IEEE Computer, IEEE Concurrency, IEEE Software, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Journal of Parallel Computing, and several other journals and conferences. Dr. El-Rewini is also a registered engineer in the state of Texas.

Keynote Speaker 4: Saturday, March 11

Professor Mounir Hamdi, Ph.D.
Director of the Computer Engineering Program
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Next Generation Internet: Opportunities and Challenges

Abstract
Broadband access technologies, such as DSL, cable modems, gigabit Ethernet, and WLANs are providing affordable and flexible high-speed access to the Internet from the home and the enterprise. On the other hand advances in fiber optic bandwidth has created huge supply of wide-area network bandwidth. The net result of this trend is the constant growth of Internet traffic and the associated applications. This, in turn, is requiring the design of high-performance core routers with high-speed interfaces (e.g., OC-192 or OC-768) and large switching capacity (e.g., a few tens of terabit/s). In addition, it is putting a big burden on network service providers to provide a scalable easy-to-use service differentiation. In this talk, we first address the evolution of Internet access in terms of equipment as well as protocols standards adopted. We will survey the big industry players in this area as well as current academic research efforts. Then, we detail the key challenges of building core routers that can scale with this huge Internet traffic, such as memory speed constraint, packet arbitration bottleneck, and interconnection complexity. We then present the current (as well as future) router architectures and its building blocks, including those in the line cards such as network processors for IP route lookup and packet classification, and the switch fabric. Several switch architectures of commercial core routers and switch chip sets are surveyed, including the most recent CRS-1 from Cisco with 46 Terabit/s switching capacity and the T-640 from Juniper. We then describe the recent push for IP-over-MPLS as a "best" solution to provide scalable service differentiation in the Internet and its underlying technology. At the end, we outline several challenging issues that remain to be researched for the next generation Internet and how they relate to the design of routers/switches and their protocols.

Speaker Biography
Mounir Hamdi received the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering (with distinction) from the University of Louisiana in 1985, and the MS and the PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1987 and 1991, respectively. From 1985 to 1991, he was a teaching/research fellow at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh where he was involved in major research projects as well as teaching undergraduate courses.

He has been a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1991, where he is now Full Professor of Computer Science, Director of the Computer Engineering Program that has around 350 undergraduate students, and Director of the Computer Engineering and Networking Lab. In 1999 to 2000 he held visiting professor positions at Stanford University, USA, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. His general areas of research is in high-speed wired/wireless networking in which he has published more than 200 research publications, received numerous research grants, and graduated more 20 postgraduate students. In addition, he has frequently consulted for companies in the USA, Europe and Asia on high-performance Internet routers and switches as well as high-speed wireless LANs. Currently, he is working on the design, analysis, scheduling, and management of high-performance Internet switches/routers, algorithm/architecture co-design, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks/switches, and high-speed wireless networks. In particular, he is leading a research team at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology that is designing one the highest capacity chip sets for Terabit switches/routers in the world. This chip set is targeted towards a 256 x 256 OC-192 Internet switches, and includes a crossbar fabric chip, a scheduler/arbiter chip, and a traffic management chip.

Dr. Hamdi is/was on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Communication Magazine, Computer Networks, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, and Parallel Computing, and has been on the program committees of more than 70 international conferences and workshops. He was a guest editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, guest editor-in-chief of two special issues of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, and a guest editor of Optical Networks Magazine, and has chaired more than 5 international conferences and workshops including the IEEE GLOBECOM/ICC Optical networking workshop, the IEEE ICC High-speed Access Workshop, and the IEEE IPPS HiNets Workshop. He is/was the Chair of IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Transmissions, Access and Optical Systems, and Vice-Chair of the Optical Networking Technical Committee, as well as member of the ComSoc technical activities council. He is/was on the technical program committees of more than 100 international conferences and workshops. He received the best paper award at the International Conference on Information and Networking in 1998 out of 152 papers. He also supervised the best PhD paper award amongst all universities in Hong Kong. In addition to his commitment to research and professional service, he is also a dedicated teacher. He received the best 10 lecturers award (through university-wide student voting for all university faculty held once a year), the distinguished engineering teaching appreciation award from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and various grants targeted towards the improvement of teaching methodologies, delivery and technology. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.

Banquet Keynote Speaker: Thursday Night, March 9

Professor Dr. Rafic Makki, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Information Technology
UAE University, UAE

iDDT-The Heartbeat of an Integrated Circuit Chip

Abstract
This talk presents advancements in the area of testing VLSI circuits by deploying the dynamic power supply current iDDT. The iDDT provides direct observability over the switching characteristics of the circuit, thereby providing useful insight during the test process. The results of simulation studies as well as physical experimentation show a dramatic increase in fault coverage and reductions in test time.

Speaker Biography
Rafic Makki is currently serving as Dean of the College of Information Technology at UAE University. Dr. Makki has over 20 years of experience in IC design and test. His most significant accomplishments include the development of the iDDT pulse test method which has gained considerable attention and widely cited. Dr. Makki has directed research projects as PI or co-PI in the areas of: Integrated Circuits Design and Test (developed new methods for testing integrated circuits, testability tools, new design for testability methods, and logic synthesis for testability tools); Computer Integrated Manufacturing (scheduling tools for the IBM Charlotte plant); Biomedical Instrumentation (development of a device that can be implanted in the human body and can monitor parameters such as strain on orthopedic implants).

Dr. Makki has received research funding from the US National Science Foundation, DARPA, IBM, Solectron, Intel, Lucent, Carolinas Medical Center, and the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina.

Dr. Makki is the recipient of several awards including the 2005 IBM Faculty Research Award (first in the Middle-East), the 2002 First Citizen Research Scholar Medal, and the ALCOA Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award. He has served as President of the Faculty at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and served as CEO of Horizon Technologies.

Dr. Makki received a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1983 from Tennessee Tech University.

Luncheon Keynote Speaker: Thursday Luncheon, March 9

Professor Yacine Atif, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Massey University, New Zealand

Trends and Prospects of Corporate and Higher-Education E-learning Global Infrastructures in the Semantic Web Age

Abstract
The Semantic Web is the emerging landscape shaping the future World Wide Web, aiming at the provision of distributed information with well-defined meaning and services that would be understandable and reusable by both humans and machines. E-learning software on the other hand, are intended not only to deliver but also to build job-transferable knowledge and skills, linked to individual learning contexts as well as organizational performance. The confluence of the Semantic Web and E-learning is expected to lead to synergistic effects and opportunities for sharing and reusing instructional resources globally in an open learning environment. Several technical standards are paving the way towards interoperating knowledge repositories in order to nurture a pervasive learning environment and to prescribe personalized learning models for incremental knowledge construction. This presentation shows the potentials and prospects of this intense standardization work in building Semantic Web-based e-learning architectures in high-education and corporate training contexts.

Speaker Biography
Dr. Yacine Atif received the PhD degree in Computer Science from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 1996. After graduation, he worked at Purdue University in the USA as a Post-Doc and then joined a faculty position at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. From 1999 to 2005, he was with the UAE University as faculty, then Program Chair and then Assistant-Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Information Technology. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer at Massey University in New Zealand since June 2005.

Dr. Atif has made a number of research contributions particularly in the area of Internet Computing and related applications such as the transfer of Educational Media and Resources. His teaching, scholarship and academic excellence have been acknowledged by several awards including Best Teaching Award, Best Funded Project Award in the area of e-learning and Excellence in Academic Services Award from the UAE University.

AICCSA-06 Program at a Glance

Session	A	B	C	D	E
1	Software Foundations