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List of Publications

Papers in refereed journals

1. N. Samaan and A. Karmouch "Network Anomaly Diagnosis via Statistical Analysis and Evidential Reasoning", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 5, No. 1, June 2008.

N. Samaan and A. Karmouch, Towards Autonomic Network Management: an Analysis of Current and Future Research Directions, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 4th quarter, 2008.

3. N. Samaan and A. Karmouch, A Mobility Prediction Scheme Based on Dempster- Shafer Theory of Evidence,  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 4:6: 537- 551, 2005. (Cited first in the “Scanning the Literature” article, IEEE Wireless Communication magazine, April 2006, Volume: 13, Issue: 2 ).

4. N. Samaan and A. Karmouch “An Automated Policy-Based Management Framework for Wired/Wireless Differentiated Communication Systems”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Autonomic Communication systems, 23:12:2236-2247, 2005.

5. N. Adly, Y. Taha, M., N. Samaan, M. Nagi, “Efficient materialized view maintenance in mobile environments using interleaved Pull-Push algorithm”, Alexandria Engineering Journal(AEJ), 41: 6: 943-955, 2002.

6. N. Adly, Y. Taha, M., N. Samaan, M. Nagi, Pure-push incremental view maintenance algorithm for mobile data warehouses, Alexandria Engineering Journal (AEJ), 40:6:853-863, 2001.

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

1. N. Samaan, Achieving Self-Management in a Distributed System of Autonomic BUT Social Entities, 3rd IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE 2008), Sept., 22-26, Samos Island, Greece (14 pages).

2. N. Samaan, H. Harroud and A. Karmouch, PACMAN: a Policy-based Architecture for Context Management in Ambient Networks, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC07), Las Vegas, Nevada, 11-13, pp: 497-502. Jan. 2007 (6 pages).

3. N. Samaan and A. Karmouch,  Circumscriptive Context Reasoning for Automated Network Management Operations, IEEE Globecom 2006 – General Conference on Emerging Technologies - Autonomic Communication/Networking Principles, Nov.27-Dec.1 ,2006,  pp:1-6, San Francisco, California, USA (6 pages).

4. N. Samaan and A. Karmouch, A Novel Approach Towards Autonomic Management in Context-Aware Communication Systems in Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications, 2nd  International Workshop, MATA2005, Montreal, Canada, October 17-19, 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3744 Springer 2005, pp 374-383 (10 pages).

5. N. Samaan and A. Karmouch, A User Centric Mobility Prediction Approach Based on Spatial Conceptual Maps, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Seoul, Korea, 16-20 May, ICC 2005, pp: 1413- 1417 (5 pages).

6. N. Samaan and A. Karmouch, Adaptive Policies for Management of Autonomous Communication systems, 7th  International Symposium on Communications Interworking, Ottawa, Canada, November 29, 30-December 1, 2005.

7. N. Samaan, B. Benmammar, F. Krief, and A. Karmouch Prediction-based Advance Resource Reservation in Mobile Environments, in the 18th Annual Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, CCECE05, May 1-4, 2005, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada.

8. N. Samaan and A. Karmouch, "A Case-Based Reasoning Approach for Automated Management in Policy-Based Network, 15th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 2004, Davis,CA, USA, Nov. 15-17, 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3278 Springer 2004, pp 76-87 (10 pages).

9. A. Karmouch, A. Galis, R. Giaffreda, A. Jonsson, A. Karlsson, R. Glitho, M. Smirnov, M. Kleis, C. Reichert, A. Tan, M. Khedr, N. Samaan, L. Heimo, M. Barachi, T. Kanter, J. Dang, Contextware Research Challenges in Ambient Networks, Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications, 1st  International Workshop, MATA2004, Florianópolis, Brazil, October 20-22, 2004, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3284 Springer 2004, pp 62-77 (6 pages).

10. N. Samaan, A. Karmouch, and H. Kheddouci “Mobility Prediction Based Service Location and Delivery”,  17th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer  engineering (CCECE 2004), May 2-5, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada (5 pages).

11. N. Samaan and A. Karmouch Prediction-Based Policy Adaptation for QoS Management in Wireless Networks, in proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY 2003), Italy 4-6 June 2003 (6 pages).

12. N. Samaan and A. Karmouch, An Evidence-Based Mobility Prediction Agent Architecture, Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications, 5th International Workshop, MATA 2003, Marakech, Morocco, October 8-10, 2003, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2881 Springer 2003, pp 230-239 (10 pages) .

13. N. Samaan and A. Karmouch, A Multi-Agent Framework for QoS adaptation Using Policies in wireless Environments, Gestion de Réseaux Et de Services, 24 -27 Février 2003, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.

14. N. Adly, Y. Taha, N. Samaan, M. Nagi,  Efficient Materialized View Maintenance in Mobile Environments Using Interleaved Pull-Push Algorithm”, 2nd IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2002), Marrakech, Morocco, December 18-21, 2002.

15. N. Adly, Y. Taha, N. Samaan, M. Nagi, An Incremental View Maintenance Algorithm for Data Warehouses in Mobile Environments", IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2001), Cairo, Egypt, 28-30 December 2001 (best paper award).

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