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Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY.

RECENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE	2006 - present George Mason University Fairfax, VA Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Information and Software Engineering Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering 2000 - 2006 George Mason University Fairfax, VA Professor of Computer Science, Information and Software Engineering 1991- 2000 George Mason University Fairfax, VA Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Information and Software Engineering *1985-1990 George Mason University Fairfax, VA* *Chair and Professor of Computer Science, Founding Chair of Computer Science* *School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University Fairfax, VA* *Software Engineering and System Engineering Consultant*
RELATED RESEARCH	RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS -- Improving Software Reuse Practices -- Reusable Software Architectures and Designs -- Reusable Components and Adapters in Distributed Systems -- Quality Assurance and Metrics -- Quality Assurance of Distributed Systems and Metrics -- Requirements Engineering, Object-Oriented Modeling and Design SELECTED SAMPLE OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS Quality Assurance and Metrics With A. Sheta and S. Kassaymeh,'Software effort and function points estimation models based radial basic function and feedfoward articial neural networks' , International Journal of Next Generation Computing (IJNGC), Vol. 6, No. 3 November 2015. http://perpetualinnovation.net/ojs/index.php/ijngc/article/view/296 With A. Sheta and S. Ghasayma, "Estimating the Number of Test Workers During Software Testing Process Using Artificial Neural Networks," Proceedings of The Eighth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances ICSEA 2013, October 27 - November 1, 2013. With A. Sheta and S. Kassaymeh, “Can Artificial Neural Networks Improve the Quality of Software Cost Estimate,” CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, 2013. Accepted for Publication in 2013. With A. Sheta and A. Ayesh, "Evaluating software cost estimation models using particle swarm optimisation and fuzzy logic for NASA projects: a comparative study," International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, Vol. 2 and No. 6, pp. 365-373,2010. With C. Din, "Requirements Statements Content Goodness and Complexity Measurement," International Journal of Next-Generation Computing, Vol 1, No 1 (2013), March 2013. International Journal of Next Generation Computing With J. Park and S. Lee,'PLAC - UML Design Patterns Metamodel - Level Constraints for the Maintenance of Software Evolution,' Software: Practice and Experience Journal, SPE-11-0020, 2011, 30 pages. 3 OCT 2011 DOI: 10.1002/spe.1116. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.1116/references http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.1116/references With C. Din, "Requirements Content Goodness and Complexity Measurement Based On NP Chunks," Proceedings,Complexity and Intelligence of the Artificial Systems: Bio-inspired Computational Methods and Computational Methods Applied in Medicine, WMSCI 2008 Conference. With C. Din,"Requirements Content Goodness and Complexity Measurement Based On NP Chunks,' Technical Report, Published,2008. W. O'brien, "Avoiding Semantic and Temporal Gaps in Developing Software Intensive Systems,"Journal of Systems and Software,Volume 81, Issue 11, November 2008, Pages 1997-2013. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121208000216 With A. Sheta, “Development of Software Effort and Schedule Estimation Models Using Soft Computing Techniques,” Proceedings, 2008 IEEE World Congress on Evolutionary Computation Proceedings,(IEEE CEC 2008), 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008),Hong Kong, IEEE. With J. Park and E. White, “Assessing Conformance of Pattern-based Design in UML,” ACMSE 2008 Submission, December 2007. With A. Sheta, "Software Effort Estimation: A Comparative Study," Springer, 2008, SIAAS-08 - Swarm Intelligence Algorithms and Applications Symposium, Aberdeen, Scotland, April 3-4, 2008 With M. Elish, "Design Structural Stability Metrics and Post-Release Defect Density: An Empirical Study," Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM COMPSAC 2006 International Conference http://www.compsac.org/ With H. Zeng, "Adaptive Estimation Framework for Software Defect Fix Effort Using Neural Networks", accepted for publication. With A. Sheta, Improving Effort Estimation for Critical Software Projects Using PSO-Tuned COCOMO Model. Published in the Proceeding of the IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, May 12-14, 2006, Hilton Indianapolis Hotel, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. With A. Sheta, Modeling Incremental Faults of Software Testing Process Using AR Models. Published in the Proceeding of 4th International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology CSIT 2006,Vol. 3, pp. 79-87, April 5-7, 2006, Amman, Jordan. With Y. Hwang, "Verification Framework and Algorithms for Integrating Information Distribution Systems," Information and Software Technology Journal, Vol. 48, pp. 876-889, ISSN-0950-5849, 2006, www.elsevier.com/locate/infsof . With Y. Hwang, "Integrating Information Distribution Systems: Verification and Correction Algorithms", Proceedings of the 9th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2005), Orlando, USA, on July 10-13, 2005. Received the Best Paper Award. With H. Zeng, "An Empirical Study on Software Defect Fix Effort Estimation with Incomplete Historical Data", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance ICSM 2005. With E.Damiani and L. Jain, "Soft Computing in Software Engineering: Theory and Applications," published by Springer-Verlag.“A TRAINING APPROACH TO DEVELOP REUSABLE SOFTWARE COMPONENTS BY COMBINING ADAPTATION ALGORITHMS”, 2005. With G. Alkhatib, "Web engineering, information technology, and enterprise computing: an integrated approach", International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering, Vol. 1, 2005. With M. Elish, "Indicators of Structural Stability of Object-Oriented Designs: A Case Study," Proceedings of the 29th 2004 NASA/IEEE Software Engineering Conference, pp. 183- 192, Maryland, USA, Apr. 2005. With S. Lee, “Missing Requirements and Relationship Discovery," Position Paper, International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution – IWPSE 2004 September 6-7, 2004 Kyoto, Japan In conjunction with RE 04 – 12th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Sponsored by Special Interest Group on Software Engineering / Information Processing Society of Japan." Proceedings RE 04 – Citation With J. Cozen, "Modeling an Agile Proces," Proceedings of the Agile Programming Workshop, in conjunction with the 2004 ICSE Conference, CSE 2004. With S.Lee, “Missing Requirements and Relationship Discovery through Proxy Viewpoints Model,” STUDIA INFORMATICA UNIVERSALIS: International Journal on Informatics, Regular Issue Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 315-342. ISBN 2-912590-30-2, ISSN 1621-7545. December 2004. Also, previously selected as the Best Paper from the IEEE/ACM International Software Applications Conference With H. Zeng, "A Neural Network Approach for Software Defect Fix Effort Estimation", Proceedings of the IEEE COMPSAC International Conference November 2004 With H. Zeng, "Analysis of Testing Effort by Using Core Assets in Software Product Line Testing", Proceedings of the First Software Engineering Institute SEI Product Line Conference 2004. With H. Zeng, "A Neural Network Approach for Software Defects Fix Effort Estimation",Proceedings of the 8th IASTED International Conference on SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND APPLICATIONS 2004,November 9-11, 2004 MIT Cambridge, MA, USA With S. Chen, "A Software Product Line Reuse Process for Modeling Web User Interfaces", Proceedings of the 2004 NASA Software Engineering Web (SEW) Conference. With W. Zhang and H. Zeng, "Asserting Efforts in Software Product Line Testing", First Workshop on Managing Variabilities Consistently in Design and Code at 19th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2004). With M. Elish, 'Investigation of Metrics for Object-Oriented Design Logical Stability,' Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference On Software Maintenance And Reengineering (CSMR’03) 0-7695-1902-4/03, pp. 193-200, Benevento, Italy, Mar. 2003, IEEE Improving Software Reuse Practices With A. Fraga, “Chunking Complexity Measurement for Requirements Quality Knowledge Representation” Springer Publication, SKY'2013 Workshop - CCIS IC3K 2013 Springer Post-Conference volume - Selected papers, Springer 2014. With A. Fraga, “Requirements Quality Knowledge Representation using Chunking Complexity Measurement: Prior to Formal Inspections,” Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Knowledge SKY 2013, International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - IC3K 2013, 22 September, 2013 - Vilamoura, Portugal. With J. Park and S. Lee,"PLAC - UML Design Patterns Metamodel - Level Constraints for the Maintenance of Software Evolution," Software: Practice and Experience Journal, SPE-11-0020, 2011, 30 pages. 3 OCT 2011 DOI: 10.1002/spe.1116. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.1116/references http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.1116/references With N. Nada, "An empirical study of a software reuse reference model", Journal of Information and Software Technology, pp. 47-65, 2000. With N. Nada, "Three empirical studies of a software reuse reference model", Software Practice and Experience, Spring, pp. 685-722, 2000. With N. Nada, "Empirical evaluations of a software reuse reference model", Annals of Software Engineering, pp. 225-259, 2000. With K. Jaber, ‘Product line stakeholder viewpoint approach and validation model’, Proceedings of the ACM SAC, March 2000, pp. 1-6, ACM. With J. Baldo and N. Nader, ‘A model for a case/legacy based reasoning system to support effective empirical studies of software engineering practice’, Proceedings of the Reusable Architectures and Components Symposium, July 2000. ‘The EXTEND architecture: a tool kit for systems requirements verification and validation’, NSF SERC Digest, December 1999. With K. Jaber, ‘Using adapters to reduce interaction complexity in reusable component-based software development’, Proceedings of the 1999 SSR/ICSE, IEEE-ACM. With N. Nader, Software reuse reference model: development and Validation", Journal of Information and Software Technology, November, 1999. With N. Nader and K. Jaber, "Using adapters to reduce interaction complexity in reusable component-based software development", Proceedings of the Symposium on Software Reusability, The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May, 1999. With N. Nada, "A validated software reuse reference model supporting component-based management", Proceedings of the Symposium on Software Reuse, ICSE, 1998. With R. Sonnemann, "Investments in reusable software: a study of software reuse investment success factors", Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 41, 1998. Supported in part by USAF. Pp. 17-32. With N. Nada, "Towards the design and integration of multi-use components, Proceedings of the IEEE SCI Conference, 1998. With N. Nada, "Practices in organizational structure for software reuse", Proceedings of the IEEE SCI Conference, 1998. Nada, N.; Rine, D.; Tuwaim, S., Best Software Reuse Practices Require Reusable Software Architecture in Product Line Development, Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Software Architectures in Product Line Acquisitions, June 1998. Nada, N.; Rine, D.; Software Reuse Reference Model: Development and Validation, Proceedings of International Conference on Software Reuse, Victoria, Canada, June 1998. Nada, N.; Jaber, K; Al-Daijy, E., A Product-Line Model, Object-Oriented Programming Proceedings of Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA’98), Vancouver, Canada, October 1998. ‘Supporting reuse with object technology’, Computer, IEEE Computer Society, October, 1997. With N. Nada, "A framework for Successful Software Reuse: with Applications to EOEI", Proceedings of the IEEE-NASAEOEI'97 Conference, Alexandria, Egypt, October, 1997. Sup. In part by NASA. With R. Sonnemann, "A software manufacturing framework for the software reuse function with OMG CORBA compliance, International Journal of Applied Software Technology, March 1997. "Success factors for software reuse that are applicable across domains and businesses", Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 1997, pp. 182-186. Nada, N. and Rine, D., Software Reuse Function Framework, Proceedings of the First European Reuse Workshop, November 1997. With J. Baldo, 'A framework for software reuse: comprised of technical and non-technical attributes', special issue of the ACM StandardView, June, 1997, The ACM. With R. Sonnemann, "Investments in Reusable Software: A Study of Software Reuse Investment Success Factors", Chapter in Measuring Information Technology Investment Payoff: Contemporary Approaches, Idea Group Publishing, Inc.(M. Mahmood, Ed.), 1996. Sup. In part by USFA. Reusable Software Architectures and Designs With F. Patterson, "Reusable software for low earth orbit satellite constellations", Proceedings of the NASA Reusable Architectures Symposium, pp.1-6, 2001. With A. Khatri, "Validation of a patient HCES using a software reuse reference model", Journal of Systems Architecture, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 157-162, 2001. Citation With A. Khatri, "A software reuse reference model approach in developing an automated educational system for patients health care management", Proceedings of the ACM Software Applications Conference (SAC), pp. 675-679, March, 2001. With J. Baldo and N. Nada, "Empirically validating and using evolving patterns to support effective software reuse practice", Proceedings of SCI2000, pp. 1-6, 2000. With A. Khatri, "Validation of a patient HCES using software reuse reference model", Proceedings of OOPSLA Reuse Workshop, pp. 1-6, 2000. With N. Nada, "Product line stakeholder viewpoint approach and validation models", Proceedings of the IEEE-ACM Software Reuse Workshop, ICS2000, May 2000. With A. Khatri, "User friendliness of PHCES derived from a domain model and patients preference", Proceedings of 4^th Joint SCI2000 and ISA2000, pp. 319-322, July, 2000. With A. Khatri, "Validation of a patient headache care education system (PHCES)", Journal of Systems Architecture, pp. 1-8, August, 2000. With N. Nada and Luqi, "A knowledge based system for software reuse technology practices", Proceedings of WISE3 ICSE2000, pp. 1-6, May, 2000. With A. Khatri, " Validation of a patient headache care education system developed from a UML domain model", Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society COMPSAC99 Conference, 1999. With S. Homod, " Building requirements repository using requirements transformation techniques to support requirements reuse", Proceedings of the IIIS Conference on Information Systems Development, 1999. With N. Nada, "Software reuse reference model", Proceedings of International Symposium on Software Reuse, June, 1998. With N. Nada, ‘Towards the design and integration of multi-use components’, Proceedings of the IEEE SCI Conference, Summer 1998. Nada, N.; Rine, D., Modeling and Designing Global Data and Information Systems Under Software Reuse Emerging Technologies, Proceedings of Fourth International Conference On Computer Science and Informatics (CS&I'98), Special Session on Software Reuse, October 1998. With N. Nada and S. Tuwaim, "Best software reuse practices require reusable software architecture in product line development", Proceedings of the 2^nd Workshop on Software Architectures in Product Line Acquisitions, June, 1998. With R. Sonnemann, "A software manufacturing framework for the software reuse function with OMG CORBA compliance", special issue on software reuse, International Journal of Applied Software Technology, March, 1997. Supported in part by USAF. Nada, N.; Rine, D.; Kafatos, M., Using the WWW, the Internet, and the Object Technology to Support Earth Sciences Software Reuse Manufacturing Framework, Proceedings of the EOGEO World Wide Web Workshop 98, Austria 1997. Reusable Components and Adapters in Distributed Systems. With J. Chen, "Training fuzzy logic controller software components by combining adaptation algorithms," Advances in Engineering Software Journal, 2003. With J. Chen, "Training fuzzy logic software components: a space craft flight attitude control application", Proceedings of the IEEE IFSA2001, International Fuzzy Systems Conference, pp. 179-185, 2001. With J. Chen, "Software components reuse with uncertainties", Proceedings of the 8^th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, pp.1-6, 1999. With K. Jaber and N. Nada, "Using adapters to reduce interaction complexity in reusable component-based software development", Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE International Symposium of Software Reuse, ICSE, 1999. Citation "Using adapters to reduce component integration complexity", NSF SERC Conference Digest, November, 1998. "Development of soft computing application: using the software reuse function framework", Journal of Soft Computing special issue, 1998. With Y. Hwang, "Graphic algorithms to identify Defects while reusing object-oriented software components", 4th Joint Conference on Information Sciences, vol. III, p. 425-428, Research Triangle Park, NC, Oct. 23-28, 1998. With Y. Hwang, "Verifying the reusability of software component specifications", Journal of Information Sciences, vol. 112, no. 1-4, p. 169-197, Elsevier Science, Nov. 1998.. With Nada, N. "Component Management Infrastructure: A Component-Based Software Reuse Reference Model M.," Proceedings of the ICSE98 International Workshop on Component-Based Software Engineering, Japan. With Jaber., K.; Nada, "Towards the Design and Integration of Multi-use Components," The Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis, July 1998. With Nada, N. "Towards Components-Based Software Development," The Proceedings of European Reuse Workshop (ERW’98), Spain, November 1998. "Reusable software adaptive fuzzy controller architectures", International Journal of Applied Software Technology, 1998, pp. 91-98. With M. Ahmed, "A reusable intelligent autopilot", International Journal of Applied Software Technology, 1998, pp. 145-166. With J. Chen, "Training reusable software components by combining adaptation algorithms", Special issue of the International Journal of Applied Software Technology, 1998. Corp. Sponsor. With M. Ahmed, "A reusable intelligent autopilot: a framework", Special Issue of the International Journal of Applied Software Technology, October, 1997. Corp. Sponsor. With J. Chen, Special Issue of Journal of Soft Computing, November, 1997. "Supporting reuse with object technology", Computer, IEEE Computer Society, October 1997. With J. Chen, "On training fuzzy logic based software components", IEEE Computer Society Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic, 1997. With Nada, N., "Development of Reusable Software for the World Wide Web Earth Observing and Earth Information System" EOEIS, Internet News Journal, October, 1997. With M. Ahmed, "Deductive fuzzy databases for geographic information systems", Proceedings of the EOEI Conference, 1997. With J. Chen, "Testing trainable software components by combining genetic algorithms and backpropagation algorithms", Proceedings of the Conference on Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering, November, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1996. Corp. Spon. Quality Assurance of Distributed Systems With A. Sheta and A. Ayesh, "Evaluating software cost estimation models using particle swarm optimisation and fuzzy logic for NASA projects: a comparative study," International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, Vol. 2 and No. 6, pp. 365-373,2010. With. M. Ahmed, "A New Swarm Intelligence Approach for C4I Information Distribution Systems," publication to appear, 2010. With X. Wang, "Secure Online DNS Dynamic Updates: architecture and implementation," International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering, Vol. 2, Issue 3, pp. 17-36, May 2007.https://igi-pub.com/downloads/pdf/ITJ3848_Q6SJde12Ef.pdf “Human exploration and development of space: using XML database space wide web," Information Sciences Journal, Vol. 150, pp.123-151, 2003. With M. Elish, "Evaluating collaborative software in supporting the mental model concept of organizational learning with Bayesian networks", Proceedings of the ACM Software Applications Conference SAC, pp.1-6, March 2002. With S. Wang, I. Huang, "A JCA-based implementation framework for threshold cryptography", Proceedings of the 17^th Annual Computer Security (ACSAC) Conference, .Pages 85-91. December, 2001. New Orleans, LA, USA. IEEE CS Press "Test Framework Product Line for Low Earth Satellites", Technical Publication Series of the Fraunhofer Institut Experimentelles Software Engineering, Germany, 2001. With Y. Hwang, "Algorithms to detect faults in chained inference faults in information distribution systems", Proceedings of the ACM Software Applications Conference (SAC), pp.1-6, March 2001. "Test framework product line for low earth satellite constellations", Proceedings of the WISE3_2001 and IEEE-ACM ICSE2001, pp.1-6, May 2001. With S. Wang and I. Huang, "Towards mission tamper-resistant mobile agent-based electronic commerce", (BEST PAPER AWARD) Proceedings of the International Mobile Computing Conference, pp. 1-6, 2000. With S. Wang, Desmedt and I. Huang, "Enabling secure on-line DNS dynamic update", Proceedings of the 16^th Annual Computer Security (ACSAC) Conference, P52-58. December 12-15, 2000. New Orleans, LA, USA. IEEE CS Press . With M. Ahmed, "An agent-based approach for developing C4I systems", Proceedings of the IEEE Reusable Architectures Symposium, pp. 1-6, 2000. "Space wide web supported by adapters in very large distributed systems configuration", Proceedings of the IEEE-ACM ICS2000 Conference, pp. 1-6. With R. Alnakari, "A four-valued logic B(4) of E(9) for modeling human spoken and written dialog", Proceedings of the IEEE-CS International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic, pp. 285-290, May 2000. "Human exploration and development of space needs-space wide web: incorporating reusable adaptive technology", Proceedings of Reuse Symposium, ICIS2000, pp. 1-6, August 2000. With M. Xenos, "Next generation of requirements verification and validation tool kits", Proceedings of NSF SERC Conference, pp. 1-6, December, 1999. "Mission to planet earth – EOEI", Internet, February-March, 1998. With Y. Hwang, "Verifying the reusability of software component specifications: framework and algorithms", Journal of Information Sciences, 1998. Supported by US AR Grants. With M. Ahmed, "Algorithms for generating near-optimal rule sets of information distribution systems’, Proceedings of the IEEE SMC International Conference, 1998, pp. 1564-1569. With M. Ahmed, "An agent-based approach for developing C4I systems", Proceedings of the IEEE SMC International Conference, 1998, pp. 1195-1200. With M. Ahmed, "Generating fault-tolerant information distribution rules from high-level requirements specifications", special issue on Distributed System of the International Journal of Systems Science, 1997. Supported by US Army Research Grants. With M. Ahmed, "Rule-based information distribution systems: generating near-optimal rule sets", Proceedings of IEEE-CS ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems, 1997. Sup. By US AR. "Copying errors in object-oriented design", Journal of Systems Integration, 1997, pp. 127-150. With M. Ahmed, "Generating fault-tolerant information distribution rules from high-level specifications", International Journal of Systems Science, 1997. Information Technology and Web Engineering With A. El-Ansary, "Requirements definitions of robotics automation and safety systems using the behavioral patterns alanysis (BPA) approach: the production cell system, and the railroad crossing," Journal of Emerging Trends in Computing and Information Sciences,Vol. 3, No. 1, 2012. http://cisjournal.org/journalofcomputing/archive/vol3no1 With Y. Hwang, "A framework to discover new business processes through business data integrations", Journal of Emerging Trends in Computing and Information Sciences, 2011, June, Vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 276 - 283. http://cisjournal.org/journalofcomputing/archive/vol2no6/vol2no6_4.pdf With Y. Hwang, "Integrating Information Distribution Systems:AFramework and Validation Algorithms",Proceedings of the 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2003)vol. VI, p. 370-375, Orlando, USA, in July 27-30, 2003. With Y. Hwang, "Integrating information distribution systems: verification and correction algorithms", the 9th world multi-conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, vol. VII, pp. 156-161, Orlando, FL, Jul 10-13, 2005. With G. Alkhatib, "Overview of information technology and Web engineering," International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering, 2006, Vol. 1, No. 1, January-March 2006, pp. 1-3. With M. Wood, 'Exploring the risks that affect community college decision makers," Journal publication 2007. Encyclopedia of Decision Making, 2007. Security and Privacy With X. Wang. “Secure Online DNS Dynamic Updates: architecture and implementation.” International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering. 2(3), 17-36. July-September, 2007. With X. Wang. “A JCA-based Implementation Framework for Threshold Cryptography”. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). Pages 85-91. December, 2001. New Orleans, LA, USA. IEEE CS Press With X. Wang. “Towards Mission Tamper-Resistant Mobile Agent-based Electronic Commerce”. Presented at the First Asia Mobile Computing Conference, Malasia, November 1- 5, 2000. With X. Wang, Y. Huang, Y. Desmedt.. “Enabling Secure On-line DNS Dynamic Update”. Proceeding of the 16th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, P52-58. December 12-15, 2000. New Orleans, LA, USA. IEEE CS Press. Recent Books With G. Alkhatib, "Web Engineering Advancements and Trends: Building New Dimensions of Information Technology,"IGI Global Books Publishing, New York, 2010. http://www.igi-global.com/ ,Information Science Reference. With G. Alkhatib, Agent Technologies and Web Engineering: Applications and Systems, 2010 With G. Alkhatib, "Agent Technologies and Web Engineering: Applications and Systems," IGI Global Books Publishing, New York, 2009. http://www.igi-global.com/ With G. Alkhatib, "Integrated Approaches in Information Technology and Web Engineering: Advancing Organizational Knowledge Sharing," IGI Global Books Publishing, New York, 2009. With A. Sheta, "Software Effort Estimation: A Comparative Study," Research Book Chapter, Springer, 2007, to appear 2007. With E.Damiani and L. Jain, "Soft Computing in Software Engineering: Theory and Applications," published by Springer-Verlag.“A TRAINING APPROACH TO DEVELOP REUSABLE SOFTWARE COMPONENTS BY COMBINING ADAPTATION ALGORITHMS”, 2005. With Bhuvanapalli, "A Workbook for a Course on XML and its Applications to E-Business", George Mason University Publications, June 2001. With Chaudhri, Zicari et. Al., "Succeeding with Object Databases, Wiley Publishers, 2001. With M. Sonnemann et. Al., "Investments in Reusable Software: Study of Software Reuse Success Factors, in " Measuring Information Technology Investment Payoffs: Contemporary Approaches" (M. Mahmood), Idea Group Publishers, 1999. A History of Ternary Logic Computers, 1977 Brief-History-of-Ternary-Computers History-of-Ternary-Computers Other Citations Sample ACM Citations Sample Historical Citations
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES	ACM, IEEE, Computer Society, ITE
EDUCATION	Ph.D., The University of Iowa, 1970.
SAMPLE OF AWARDS RECEIVED	IEEE Centennial Award, the IEEE Pioneer Award, the IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award, the IEEE Computer Society Special Award, and the IEEE Computer Society 50th anniversary Golden Core Award. Multiple-time recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Honor Roll (and Distinguished Service) Award and the IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation Award. Grants: NSF, Army, Air Force, Navy, Energy, US Dept. of Ag., Numerous Corps. IBM, TRW, and Govt Labs.