Research areas

My research areas include (but are not limited to):

• • Web services: service selection and composition, service recommendation, service adaptation.

  • Cloud computing: resource provisioning and management, cloud service composition and recommendation, service placement.

  • Agent technology and Autonomic computing.

  • Recommender systems: service recommendation, federated recommender, RS applications.

Research grants and projects

• SmartWater - an Intelligent Service-based Framework to Support Real-Time Water Monitoring in IoT Environments [Grant No. 442/210, Taibah University, KSA, 2020-2023].

• Multi-cloud Management Platform and a Search Engine for Smart City Services [Grant No. RI-44-0878, PNU, KSA, Started 2022].

• Recommender System for Smart Healthcare Services in Virtual Hospitals [Grant No. 44- PRFA-P- 90, PNU, KSA, Started 2023].

• A customer-oriented cloud platform for the scheduling and management of drone delivery services [Grant No. 44- PRFA-P- 91, PNU, KSA, Started 2023].

Journal Guest Editor

• • Special issue on Uncertainty in Cloud Computing: Concepts, Challenges and Current Solutions, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2018.

Conferences/Workshops organization

• • Publicity chair - https://wise2024-qatar.com/

  • Chair of the Internet of Things track - SMARTTECH 2022.

  • BigServices@ICSOC 2021 - First International wWorkshop on Big Services. In conjuction with 19th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2021, Dubai, UAE, November 22, 2021.

  • UCC 2018 - 2nd International Workshop on Uncertainty in Cloud Computing. In conjunction with 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science - CloudCom 2018, Nicosia, Cyprus, December 10, 2018.

  • UCC 2017 - 1st International Workshop on Uncertainty in Cloud Computing. In conjunction with 28th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, Lyon, France, August 28-31, 2017.

  • ASD 2017 - 11th Conference on Advanced Decision Support Systems, Tabarka, Tunisia, April 27-29, 2017.

  • BDASP4IoT’17 - 1st Spring school on Big Data Analytics and Stream Processing for IoT, Tabarka, Tunisia, April, 24-26, 2017.

Journals/Conferences reviewer

• • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

  • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

  • IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics

  • Journal of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation

  • Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems

  • Journal of Applied Soft Computing

  • Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing

  • Journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

  • Journal of Web Service Research

  • Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems

  • IEEE Access

  • Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering

  • Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering

  • Journal of Information & Communications Technology Express

  • International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing

  • International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems

  • International Conference on Advanced Decision-Making Systems

PhD students

• • Wissem Inoubli, 2016: Analysis and Mining of Large Dynamic Graphs: case of graph clustering.

  • Ameni Hedhli, 2017: A prediction-based approach for BPaaS management in multi-cloud environments. 

  • Souad Ghazouani, 2019: Multi-cloud service composition.

M.S. students

• • Mohamed Gharbi, 2018: Towards big service composition.

  • Faten Belhaj, 2017: A parallel approach for multi-cloud service recommendation.

  • Mouna Bouzazi, 2017: Towards an autonomic multi-cloud environment for optimal resource provisioning.

  • Fatma Lahmar, 2017: Secure multi-cloud service composition based on rough sets and Fuzzy Formal Concept Analysis.

  • Ameni Hedhli, 2017: A DFA-based approach for the deployment of BPaaS fragments in the Cloud.

  • Mayssa Fayala, 2017: Time-aware Web service recommendation based on multi-valued QoS prediction.

  • Taher AbdelJaouad, 2016: Cloud Services Recommendation System Based on Fuzzy Formal Concept Analysis.

  • Tarek Mahdhi, 2016: A Prediction-based VM Consolidation Approach in IaaS Cloud Data Centers.

  • Mariem Kbekbi, 2016: Reusing Process Fragments for Fast Service Composition: a Clustering-based Approach.

  • Zied Hermi, 2016 (Co-advising with Sabeur Aridhi, Université of Loraine, France): Data partitioning strategy to approximate single large-scale subgraph mining.

  • Mohamed Amin Hajji, 2016: A composite particle swarm optimization approach for the composite SaaS placement in cloud environment.

  • Mariem Medini, 2015: A FCA-based approach for multi-cloud services composition.

  • Abir Boudhina, 2015: Cross-layer adaptation of autonomic Web services.

  • Ibtissem Khedher, 2015 (Co-advising with Noura Faci, Université Lyon 1, France): A business process reverse engineering approach based on mood awareness.

  • Karima Ibdilli, 2015: Web service selection based on the negotiation of autonomic behavior.

  • Sami Abidi, 2015: Composite SaaS placement using multi-swarm optimization and cooperative learning.