Research activities
Research activities
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.
Recommender systems: service recommendation, federated recommender, RS applications.
Service-Oriented Computing with applications
SmartEdu4All - Towards an Intelligent Cyber-Physical System for Smart Educational Applications [Accepted].
Trust Management System for Smart Applications in Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems. [Accepted].
Connected Vehicle as a Service: An Edge/Cloud System for the Resilient Scheduling of Multi-modal Transportation Services in Smart Urban Networks [Grant No. RPFAP-77-1445, PNU, KSA, Started 2024].
A framework for the predictive scheduling and routing of drone delivery services [Grant No. RPFAP-78-1445, PNU, KSA, Started 2024].
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 framework for the recommendation of smart transportation services [Grant No. 44-PRFA-P- 76, 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].
SmartWater - an Intelligent Service-based Framework to Support Real-Time Water Monitoring in IoT Environments [Grant No. 442/210, Taibah University, KSA, 2020-2023].
Special Issue on "Web for Good". ACM Transactions on the Web, 2025
Special issue on AI and Data Science for Secure Societies, Springer Computing Journal, 2025.
Special issue on Uncertainty in Cloud Computing: Concepts, Challenges and Current Solutions, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2018.
WISE 2025 Program Committee.
Workshops, Special Tracks and Tutorials Co-chair: ACS/IEEE AICCSA 2025
Workshop co-chair: SGLM@IJCNN 2025
Demos and Posters Co-Chair, WISE2024
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.
ACM Transactions on the Web
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
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
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
W. Inoubli, 2016: Analysis and Mining of Large Dynamic Graphs: case of graph clustering.
A. Hedhli, 2017: A prediction-based approach for BPaaS management in multi-cloud environments.
S. Ghazouani, 2019: Multi-cloud service composition.
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.