Abdelmounaam Rezgui

·                   Address: 2050 Torgersen Hall (0106) Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061

·                   Office: 1091A Derring Hall

·                   Phone: 1 540 961-0502

·                   Fax: 1 540 231-4240

·                   Email:

 

Education

·         Ph. D. in Computer Science, Virginia Tech

o        Thesis Title: Service-Oriented Sensor-Actuator Networks

·         M. Sc. in Computer Science, Purdue University

Current Position
Research Scientist, PitLab, Virginia Tech

Research Interests

Service-oriented distributed computing, wireless sensor-actuator networks, routing protocols, trust and reputation management for routing protocols, security, ontologies and semantic integration

Honors & Awards

·         President’s National Award for the Best High School Students

·         Research Scholarship from the World Bank

·         IBM Travel Award

·         B. Sc. with First Honor

Publications

Journals and Book Chapters

K. Makki, A. Rezgui, and M. Eltoweissy, Establishing New Research Initiatives for Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor and Ad-Hoc Networks, Chapter in Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor and Ad-hoc Networks, Springer LNEE series, 2008.

A. Rezgui and M. Eltowesissy, Service-Driven Query Routing in Sensor-Actuator Networks, Chapter in Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor and Ad-hoc Networks, Springer LNEE series, 2008.

A. Rezgui and M. Eltoweissy, Service-Oriented Sensor-Actuator Networks, IEEE Communications, Volume 45, No. 12, pages 92-100, December 2007.

A. Rezgui and M. Eltoweissy, Service-Oriented Sensor-Actuator Networks: Promises, Challenges, and the Road Ahead, Journal of Computer Communications, Computer Communications, 30(13), pages 2627-2648, 2007.

A. Bouguettaya, Z. Malik, A. Rezgui, L. Korff, A Scalable Middleware for Web Database, Journal of Database Management, Vol. 17, No. 4, pages 20-46, 2006.

A. Rezgui, A. Bouguettaya and M. Eltoweissy, SemWebDL: A Privacy Preserving Semantic Web Infrastructure for Digital Libraries, Intl. Journal of Digital Libraries, Vol. 4, No. 3, November 2004.

A. Rezgui, A. Bouguettaya, and Z. Malik, Using Reputation to Prerserve Privacy in the Semantic Web, In: Information Security Policies and Actions in Modern Integrated Systems, Eds. Carlo Bellettini and Maria Grazia Fugini, Idea Group Publishing, ISBN: 1-59140-186-0, March 2004.

A. Bouguettaya, A. Rezgui, M. Ouzzani, and B. Medjahed, Internet Computing Support for Digital Government, In: The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing, Ed. Munindar P. Singh , Chapman Hall & CRC Press, ISBN: 1-584-88381-2, 2004.

A. Rezgui, A. Bouguettaya and M. Eltoweissy, Preserving Privacy in the Web: Facts, Challenges and Solutions, IEEE Security & Privacy, Vol. 1, No. 6, November 2003.

B. Medjahed, A. Rezgui, A. Bouguettaya and M. Ouzzani, WebDG - An Infrastructure for E-Government Services, IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 7, No. 1, January/February 2003.

J. Fan, D. K. Y. Yau, W. G. Aref and A. Rezgui, Adaptive Motion-Compensated Video Coding Scheme Towards Content-Based Bit Rate Allocation, IS&T/SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging, 9(4), pp. 521-533, October 2000.

Conferences and Workshops

Z. Malik, A. Rezgui and A. K. Sinha, Semantically-Enabled E-Geoscience for Knowledge Discovery, Geologic Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, October 2007.

A. K. Sinha, A. Rezgui and Z. Malik., Geoinformatics in the 21st. Century: Identifying Priority Technologies to Meet Societal Challenges, Geologic Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, October 2007.

A. Bouguettaya, D. Gracanin, Q. Yu, X. Zhang, X. Liu, Z. Malik, and A. Rezgui, WebSenior: A Digital Government Infrastructure for Senior Citizens, International Workshop on the Management of Business Processes in Government, co-located with the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007), Brisbane, Australia, September 2007.

A. Rezgui and M. Eltoweissy. TARP: Trust-Aware Routing Protocol for Sensor-Actuator Networks, 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MASS), Pisa, Italy, October 2007. Accepted. Acceptance rate: 67/265.

Z. Malik, A. Rezgui, A. K. Sinha, K. Lin, and A. Bouguettaya. DIA: A Web Services-based Infrastructure for Semantic Integration in Geoinformatics. IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Salt Lake City, UT, USA, July 2007.

A. Rezgui and M. Eltoweissy. SDRP: A Service-Driven Routing Protocol for Sensor-Actuator Networks. International NSF Workshop on Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor and Ad-hoc Networks (WTASA), Miami, Florida, USA, June 28-29 2007.

A. Rezgui, Z. Malik, and A. K. Sinha. DIA Engine: Discovery, Integration and Analysis of Earth Science Data. International Geoinformatics Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, May 2007.

Z. Malik, A. Rezgui, and A. K. Sinha. Ontologic Integration of Geoscience Data on the Semantic Web. International Geoinformatics Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, May 2007.

A. K. Sinha, Z. Malik, A. Rezgui and A. Dalton, Discovery, Integration and Analysis Engine for Earth Science Data, American GeoPhysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2006.

A. Rezgui and M. Eltoweissy, Service-Driven Query Routing in Sensor Networks, Proc. of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications (SenseApp), November 2006, Tampa, Florida, USA.

A. Rezgui and M. Eltoweissy, A Service-oriented Query Architecture for Sensor-Actuator Networks, Poster presented at the 3rd Annual IEEE Conf. on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, (SECON), September 2006, Reston, Virginia, USA.

A. Rezgui and A. Bouguettaya, Privacy-based Ranking of Web Services. 2nd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC), November 2004, New York, USA.

A. Bouguettaya, B. Medjahed, A. Rezgui, M. Ouzzani, X. Liu and Q. Yu, WebDG - A Platform for E-Government Web Services. 1st International Workshop on Digital Government: Systems and Technologies (DGOV), November 2004, Shanghai, China.

A. Rezgui, A. Bouguettaya, and Z. Malik. A Reputation-based Approach to Preserving Privacy in Web Services. 4th VLDB Workshop on Technologies for E-Services (TES'03), September 2003, Berlin, Germany.

A. Rezgui, M. Ouzzani, A. Bouguettaya, and B. Medjahed, Preserving Privacy in Web Services. ACM Workshop on Information and Data Management (WIDM'02), November 2002,McLean, VA, USA.

A. Rezgui, Z. Wen, and A. Bouguettaya, Preserving Privacy in Interoperable E-Government Databases. In Proc. Of the 3rd NSF Conference for Digital Government Research (dg.o), pp. 56-62, May 2002, Los Angeles, USA.

Bouguettaya, B. Medjahed, A. Rezgui, M. Ouzzani, and Z. Wen. Privacy Preserving Composition of Government Web Services. The 3rd NSF Conference for Digital Government Research (dg.o 2002), May 2002, Los Angeles, USA.

M. S. Marzouk, W. G. Aref, A. K. Elmagarmid, J. Fan, J. Guo, M. Hammad, I. F. Ilyas, S. Prabhakar, A. Rezgui, S. Teoh, E. Terzi, Y. Tu, A. Vakali, X. Q. Zhu, A Distributed Database Server for Continuous Media (demo paper), 18th IEEE ICDE (International Conference on Data Engineering), February 26-March 1 2002, San Jose, California, USA.

M.-S. Hacid, A. Rezgui and J. Fan, Geometric Shape Representation for Image Retrieval, 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, October 26-28 2000, Chicago, USA.

J. Fan, W. G. Aref and A. Rezgui, and W. B. McIver, Automatic Object-Oriented Video Segmentation and Conceptual Modeling Algorithm Towards Content-Based Indexing, The 2000 International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, June 20-23 2000, Perth, Australia.

A. Rezgui, P. Manneback, and A. Benjelloun, A Multithreaded SMP Solution with Dynamic Pivots for Variable Banded Linear Systems, Proc. of RenPar'11, Rennes, France.

A. Rezgui and N. Badache, Towards a Better Concurrency in Atomic Multicast Protocols, Proc. of the 7th IASTED-ISMM International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, Washington D.C., USA.

A. Rezgui and N. Badache, A Highly Parallel Protocol for Atomic Broadcast, Proc. of RenPar'7, pp. 5-9, Mons, Belgium.

Panels

·        Panelist at the NSF International Workshop on Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor and Ad-hoc Networks (WTASA), Miami, Florida, USA, June 28-29 2007.

Selected Paper Review

Journals

·         IEEE Communication Magazine

·         IEEE Transactions on Data Knowledge and Engineering

·         IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

·         World Wide Web Journal

·         JDM: Journal of Data Management

·         Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases

·         Journal of Computer Communications

 

Conferences/Workshops

·         Globecom-WASNet 2006: IEEE Symposium on Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

·         ICWS 2004: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Web Services

·         RIDE 2004: 14th Intl. Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering

·         MDDS’2003: 6th Internat. Workshop on Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems

·         ICWS’2003: The 2003 International Conference on Web Services

·         IRMA'2002: 4th Internat. Conf. of Information Resources Management Association

·         ICDE 2001: 17th Intl. Conference on Data Engineering

·         RIDE 2002: 12th Intl. Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering

·         CoopIS 2000: 5th Intl. Conference on Cooperative Information Systems

·         ECIS 2002: 10th European Conference on Information Systems

·         EuroPar'99: European Conference on Parallel Computing

 

Services

·               Member of the Program Committee of the Special Track on Handheld Computing (HHC) of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2005, 2006

·               Member of the Program Committee of the International Symposium on Programming and Systems, ISPS, 2003, 2005

Membership

·               IEEE

·               Upsilon Pi Epsilon