Thesis and Projects Supervised

1.   Design and Implementation of a Visual Query Language for Spatio-Temporal Databases. Kingston University - London. Ph.D. Dissertation. (in progress). With Haifa Ariss.

2.   Ant-DSR: A New Approach to Dynamic Source Routing using Ant Colony Optimization. Lebanese American University. (in progress). With Hassan Abou-Jerji.

3.   A Greedy Approach to Solve the Container Loading Problem. Lebanese American University. (in progress). With Omar Makarem (Primary Advisor).

4.   Avoiding Traffic Analysis and Assuring Data Integrity using a Distributed Quorum Based Approach. Lebanese American University. (in progress). With Bassam Zantout (Primary Advisor).

5.   An Improved Quorum Selection Algorithm (IQSA). Lebanese American University. September 2007. With Samer Younes (Primary Advisor).

6.   New Multi-Master Database Replication Architecture. Lebanese American University. August 2007. With Amer Chahine (Primary Advisor).

7.   IRS: An Intelligent Recruitment System. Lebanese American University. June 2007. With Samah Rifaii (Primary Advisor).

8.   Linear Representations of Braid Group are Unitary. Beirut Arab University. June 2007. With Shorouk M. Al-Issa.

9.   Mobile Dentist. Lebanese American University. May 2007. With Jack El-Nar (Primary Advisor).

10.   Paperless Clinics. Lebanese American University. March 2007. With Ali Awada (Primary Advisor).

11.   Damage Assessment and Recovery from Malicious Transactions using Data Dependency for Defensive Information Warfare. Lebanese American University. October 2006. With Arda Zeitunlian (Primary Advisor).

12.   Securing Web Applications – Countermeasures for Developers to Overcome Worst Web Application Vulnerabilities. Lebanese American University. September 2006. With Ahmad Hammoud (Primary Advisor).

13.   Bank Intra Routing Protocol. Lebanese American University. August 2006. With Rabie Sadek (Primary Advisor).

14.   PrivateTutor: An Intelligent and Adaptive Coach. Lebanese American University. June 2006. With Abbass Sharif (Primary Advisor).

15.   Multigrid Solvers in Reconfigurable Hardware. Lebanese American University. June 2006. With Safaa Kasbeh (Primary Advisor).

16.   Digital Clinics. Lebanese American University. May 2006. With Abbas Bassam (Primary Advisor).

17.   Effective Implementations of Feedback Vertex Set Algorithms. Lebanese American University. June 2006. With Nada Awar.

18.   Scatter Search Algorithms for Exam Scheduling. Lebanese American University. May 2006. With Vatche Isahakian.

19.   A Comparative Study between Cache Replacement Algorithms used in the Scalable Asynchronous Cache Consistency Scheme. Lebanese American University. May 2006. With Lana Turk (Primary Advisor).

20.   Modelling, Testing, and Regression Testing of Web Applications. Lebanese American University. May 2006. With Hamzah El Shaar (Primary Advisor).

21.   A Multimedia Temporal Database Model. Lebanese American University. April 2006. With Nasrat Dernaika (Primary Advisor).

22.   A Hybrid Cryptosystem based on WEP for 802.11 Networks. Lebanese American University. March 2006. With Walid Horr (Primary Advisor).

23.   Testing and Evaluating Digital Signature Algorithms in Principal Ideal Domains. Lebanese American University. November 2005. With Bilal Shebaro (Primary Advisor).

24.   Mapping XML DTDs to Relational Schema. Cairo University. September 2005. With Abd El-Aziz Ahmed Abd El-Aziz.

25.   SDDSR: Sequence Driven Dynamic Source Routing for Ad Hoc Mobile Networks. Lebanese American University. August 2005. With Wael Kdouh (Primary Advisor).

26.   The National Social Security Fund: Assessment and Strategic Recommendations for a Secure Future. Lebanese American University. June 2005. With Mona Zhgaib.

27.   The Executive MBA Classroom in the New Millennium. Lebanese American University. June 2005. With Shirine Khalife.

28.   Number Theoretic Equations Involving the Number of Elements of the Generalized Group of Units. Beirut Arab University. June 2005. With Dani Abou Khalil.

29.   An Improved Procedure for Performance Evaluation of Routers in Communication Networks. Beirut Arab University. June 2005. With Badih Kodieh.

30.   Towards a Temporal Multilevel Secure Database Model. Lebanese American University. June 2005. With Natalie Bekaii. (Primary Advisor).

31. CASRA – Colloquial Arabic Speech Recognition Application. Lebanese American University. June 2005. With Omar El-Ariss. (Primary Advisor).

32.     Eye2See – A Mobile Surveillance System for Pocket PCs. Lebanese American University. August 2004. (Primary Advisor).

33.      Testing Web Applications. Lebanese American University. July 2004. With Manal Houri.

34.    Measuring Ripple Effect for Object-Oriented Programs. Lebanese American University. July 2004. With Hani Salem.

35.      Mutation Testing of Web Services. Lebanese American University. February 2004. With Reda Siblini.

36.  Routing and Security Algorithms on Reconfigurable Computing Systems. American University of Beirut. February 2004. With Mohammad Al-Khalidy.

37.    Security Testing and Evaluation of Cryptographic Algorithms. Lebanese American University. June 2003. With Hadi Otrok (Primary Advisor).

38.      XSP: A New Technology for J2EE Development. Lebanese American University. June 2003. With Elias Mouchantaf.

39.  Modelling and Testing of Web Systems using SDL. Lebanese American University. June 2003. With Joe Abboud Syriani.

40.  Performance Analysis of Parallel Computing Using Reconfigurable Computing. American University of Beirut. January 2003. With Soheib Mazoub.

41.  Comparative Empirical Evaluation of Distributed Object Computing Technologies. Lebanese American University. January 2003. With Fadi Nammur.

42.  ADD: A Duplicate Detection Tool for Arabic Data Warehouses. Lebanese American University. July 2002. With Ralph Varjabedian (Primary Advisor).

43.  Online Banking Models and Implementations. Lebanese American University. July 2002. With Najib Nasreddine.

44.  Corporate Portal Design and Framework. Lebanese American University. June 2002. With Mohammad Wazan.

45.  Neuro-Classification for Handwritten Arabic Text. Lebanese American University. June 2002. With Catherine Ghaddar (Primary Advisor).

46.  ABJAD – An Off-Line Arabic Handwritten Recognition System. Lebanese American University. May 2002. With Hisham Zabadani (Primary Advisor).

47.  Constructing School Timetabling Using Simulated Annealing. Lebanese American University. April 2002. With Nazih Faraj.

48.  A Study of RSA Cryptography Algorithms. Lebanese American University. March 2002. With Nabil Semaan.

49.  An Application Framework for the Distance Learning Domain. Lebanese American University. January 2002. With Ahmed Natafgi.

50.  An Auto-Indexing Module for Arabic Information Retrieval. Lebanese American University. January 2002. With Walid Daher (Primary Advisor).

51.  GISMO – A Geographic Information System for a Municipality Office. Lebanese American University. September 2001. With Yousef Kaddoura (Primary Advisor).

52.  Final Exam Scheduling for Universities. Lebanese American University. July 2001. With Mazen Timani.

53.  Incremental and Classical Genetic Algorithms. Lebanese American University. July 2001. With Mohammad Awad.

54.  Web Application Testing. Lebanese American University. July 2001. With Wael Ukaily.

55.  Synthesis with VHDL. Lebanese American University. July 2001. With Hatem Halawi.

56.  Implementation of a Regression Test Selection Technique for C++ Software. Lebanese American University. July 2001. With Rania Hajjar.

57.  Performance Analysis of Linear Algebraic Functions Using Re-configurable Computing. American University of Beirut. May 2001. With Issam Damaj.

58.  A Neuro-Heuristic Approach for Segmenting Handwritten Arabic Text. Lebanese American University. February 2001. With Alaa Hamid (Primary Advisor) 

59.  Weighted Ternary Trees as Data Structures for Dendritic Molecules. Lebanese American University. December 2000. With Dany Doughan.  

60.  CareerHunter.com: Hunts Your Career! Lebanese American University. August 2000. With Samer Eid.      

61.  Reduction Based Methods and Metrics for Selective Regression Testing. Lebanese American University. July 2000. With Rami Bahsoon.

62.  Impact Analysis and Regression Testing of Database Applications. Lebanese American University. July 2000. With Bassel Dauo.

63.  Test Case Generation for Path Coverage. Lebanese American University. June 2000. With Miran Salame.

64.  Software Quality Improvement Model for Small Organizations. Lebanese American University. June 2000. With Rabih Zeineddine.

65.  An Improved Apriori for Mining Association Rules – “Apriori+”. Lebanese American University. December 1999.

66.  Artificial Neural Network Algorithms. Lebanese American University. November 1999. With Samer Ramadan.

67.  PERF Solutions for Distributed Query Optimization. Lebanese American University. September 1999. With Rola Fany (Primary Advisor).

68.  A Natural Language Interface to Relational Databases – The Mild System. Lebanese American University. June 1999. With Malda Tabbaa.

69.  Exam Scheduling Algorithms. Lebanese American University. June 1999. With Ziad Mikati.

70.  Complexity Metrics for Small Business Software Applications in MS-ACCESS Environment. Lebanese American University. June 1999. With Sana Abiad.

71.  School Timetabling Support System. Lebanese American University. February 1999. With Ahmed Solh.

72.  Lebanese Standards for Software Development Process. Lebanese American University. February 1998. With Ihab Shallah.

73.  Tourism in Lebanon: An Intelligent Geographic Information System Interactive Multimedia Hypermap Tool. Lebanese American University. February 1998. With Diana Nahle.

74.  Software Quality System for Lebanese Companies. Lebanese American University.  August 1997. With Badia Fidaoui.

75. Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithms for Exam Scheduling. Lebanese American University. June 1997. With Abbas Tarhini.

76.  A Tabu Search Algorithm for Mapping Data to Multicomputers. Lebanese American University. June 1997. With Kamel Diab.