Advances in Computing

Advances in Computing deals with the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. It publishes regular papers and special issues on specific topics of interest to international audiences of educational researchers.


Habiba Drias

Editorial Board Member of Advances in Computing

Professor, USTHB, Computer Science Department, Algeria

Research Areas

Artificial Intelligence

Education

1993Ph.DUniversité des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumediene(USTHB)
1984M.S.Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio, USA

Experience

1999Full professor in Computer Science at USTHB
1994Associate professor in Computer Science at USTHB
1984Full assistant in Computer Science at USTHB

Publications: Journals

[1]  DRIAS H., 'Number of Solutions of SAT Instances: A Probability Distribution Study', Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol 8, N° 4}, 1-11, (December1992).
[2]  DRIAS H., BENSALMA A. ' On the Average Number of Solutions for Instances of Satisfiability', Computers and Artificial Intelligence, vol 16, N° 3, 295-307, (1997).
[3]  DRIAS H. 'An exact and a Randomized Approach for the Satisfiability Problem', JCMCC Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, vol 39, 169-181, (November 2001).
[4]  DRIAS H. 'Randomness in Heuristics : An Experimental Investigation for the Maximum Satisfiability Problem', JCMCC Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, vol 38, 209-223, (August 2001).
[5]  KECHID S., DRIAS H. 'Negociation Protocol Inter Agents in an Electronic Market', International Arab Journal on Information Systems, Vol 2 N° 2, pp. 112-117, 2005.
[6]  AKLOUF Y., PIERRA G., AIT AMEUR Y., DRIAS H., PLIB Ontology : A mature Solution for Products Characterization in B2B Electronic Commerce, JITSSR, Journal of IT Standards & Standardization Research, Idea Group Inc, 3(2), 53-67, July-December 2005, pp. 66-81.
[7]  BOUGHACI D., DRIAS H., Taboo Search as an intelligent agent for bid evaluation, IJIEM, International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, Inderscience Publisher, Enterprises Ltd., Geneva, Switzerland, vol 3, N° 2, Spring 2005, pp 170-186.
[8]  NOUALI N., DRIAS H., DOUCET A., 'A Mobility Aware Two-Phase Commit Protocol', International Arab Journal on Information Systems, Vol 3, N° 2, April 2006, pp. 1-8.
[9]  NOUALI N., DRIAS H., DOUCET A., 'Protocols for Committing Mobile Transactions', International Arab Journal on Information Systems, Vol 3, N° 2, April 2006, pp. 134-143.
[10]  AKLOUF Y., PIERRA G., AIT AMEUR Y., DRIAS H., 'Cross-usage of web services and PLIB ontologies to define a B2B exchange process of product catalogues' Int. J. Product Lifecycle Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp 415-435, 2006.
[11]  KERRACHE S., DRIAS H., 'Extending Real-Time Heuristic Search, part1-Dynamically-Changing Goal Sets', Multiagent and Grid Systems-An International Journal, Issue 3, Volume 2, 2006, pp. 277-287.
[12]  KERRACHE S., DRIAS H., 'Extending Real-Time Heuristic Search, part2-Heterogeneous Multiple Agent Systems', Multiagent and Grid Systems-An International Journal, Issue 3, Volume 2, 2006, pp. 289-298.
[13]  AKLOUF Y., DRIAS H. 'Designing a Generic Market Place Architecture using multi-Agents based Technology', International Arab Journal on Information Systems, Vol 3 N° 3, 2007, pp. 249-255.
[14]  NOUALI N., BOUKANTAR L., DRIAS H., 'Performance evaluation of Atomic Protocols for mobile transactions', International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., Vol 1, N° 2, pp 122-155, 2007.
[15]  SADEG S. and DRIAS H., 'A selective approach to parallelize Bees Swarm Optimization metaheuristic: Application MAX-W-SAT', Int. J. Innovative computing and Applications, Vol. 1, No 2, 2007, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
[16]  BELLATRECHE L., MISSAOUI R., NECIR H., DRIAS H., 'a Data Mining Approach for selecting Bitmap Join Indices', Journal of Computing Science and Engineering, vol. 2, N°. 1, January 2008, Pages 206-223.
[17]  BOUGHACI D., BENHAMOU B., DRIAS H., 'Scatter Search and Genetic Algorithms for MAX-SAT problems', Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms JMMA, vol 7 Springer Netherlands, February 2008, pp 101-124.
[18]  BOUGHACI D., Oubeka B., Aissioui A., DRIAS H., BENHAMOU B., ''Design and implementation of a distributed Firewall', in: Handbook of Research on Information Security and Assurance', Jatinder N. D. Gupta and Sushil K. Sharma, Idea Goup Inc, USA, 2008 (Ed.).
[19]  AKLOUF Y., DRIAS H., 'An Adaptive e-commerce architecture for Enterprise Information Exchange', International Journal on Enterprise Information System IJEIS, Idea Group Inc, Vol 4, N.4, 2008, Irma & Igp publishing.
[20]  KECHID S., DRIAS H., 'Personalizing the source selection and the result merging process', International Journal of Information System IJISTA, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
[21]  KECHID S., DRIAS H., 'Personalizing the source selection and the result merging process', International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, IJAIT, vol 18 n°2 (April 2009), World Scientific Publishing Company, Imperial College Press, pp 331-354.
[22]  BOUGHACI Dalila, BENHAMOU Belaid, DRIAS Habiba, 'A Memetic Algorithm for the Optimal Winner Determination Problem', Soft Computing-A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, vol 13, pp. 905-917, Springer Berlin, 2009.
[23]  LAALAOUI Yacine, DRIAS Habiba, 'Learning-based Approach for Multiprocessor Scheduling under Timing Constraints and N-Queens Problems', International Journal on Advanced Operations Management IJAOM, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol 1 N°4, pp 290-311, 2009.
[24]  LAALAOUI Yacine, DRIAS Habiba, 'ACO Approach with Learning for Preemptive Scheduling of Real-Time Tasks', International Journal on Bio-Inspired Computing IJBIC, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
[25]  NOUALI Nadia, CHEHBOUR Fairouz, DRIAS Habiba, 'On Performance Evaluation and Design of Atomic Commit Protocols for Mobile Transactions', Distributed and Parallel Databases, vol 27, n°1, February 2010, pp. 53-94, Springer Netherlands.
[26]  IBRI Sarah, DRIAS Habiba, NOURELFATH Mustapha, 'A Parallel Hybrid Ant-taboo algorithm for integrated Emergency Vehicle Dispatching and Covering Problem', International Journal on Innovative computing and Applications IJICA, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
[27]  HADJIDJ Drifa, DRIAS Habiba, 'Grasp and Guided Local Search for the Examination Timetabling Problem', International Journal Of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, IJAISC, vol 2, issue 1/2, 2010, pp 103-114.
[28]  LAALAOUI Yacine, DRIAS Habiba, 'Learning and Backtracking in Non-Preemptive Scheduling of Tasks under Timing Constraints', Soft Computing, Springer Publisher, 2010.
[29]  BOUGHACI Dalila, BENHAMOU Belaid, DRIAS Habiba, 'Local Search Methods for the Winner Determination Problem', Journal of Mathematical Modeling and Algorithms JMMA, Springer, 2010.
[30]  KECHID Samir, DRIAS Habiba, 'Personalised distributed information retrieval-based agents', IJISTA, Inderscience, Int. J. Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2010, pp 49-73.
[31]  MELLAH Hakima, HASSAS Salima, DRIAS Habiba, RAIAH A., TIGUEMOUMINE A., 'A Formal Approach for a Self Organizing Protocol Inspired by Bacteria Colonies: Production System Application', E. Altman et al. (Eds.): Bionetics 2009, LNICST 39, pp. 185-194, 2010. @_Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2010.
[32]  MAHMOUDI Aicha, BESSEDIK Malika, DRIAS Habiba: Two hybrid ant algorithms for the general T-colouring problem. IJBIC 2(5): 353-362 (2010).
[33]  BESSEDIK Malika, BOUAKLINE Toufik, DRIAS Habiba: How can bees colour graphs. IJBIC 3(1): 67-76 (2011).
[34]  LAALAOUI Yacina, DRIAS Habiba: Learning and backtracking in non-preemptive scheduling of tasks under timing constraints-Special issue on machine learning and cybernetics. Soft Comput. 15(6): 1071-1086 (2011).
[35]  NOUALI-TABOUDJEMAT Nadia, NOUALI Omar, DRIAS Habiba: La validation dynamiquement adaptable des transactions mobiles. Une approche sensible au contexte utilisant des politiques d'adaptation. Technique et Science Informatiques 30(3): 243-273 (2011).

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums

[1]  DRIAS H., 'On the Number of Solutions of SAT Instances with Balanced Variables', in Proc of the 13th British Computer Society Colloquium on Information Retrieval, Lancaster U.K., (1991), 3-12.
[2]  DRIAS H., 'Introduction to Probabilistic Enumeration Algorithms: Application to the Satisfiability Problem', in Proc of the 6th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, IEEE Computer Society, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Antalya Turkey, (1991), 415-426.
[3]  DRIAS H., 'A New algorithm for counting and checking satisfiability and a restricted unfavourable region for polynomial average time', in proc of the 30th IEEE southeastern Symposium on System Theory, 1998, Morgantown, USA (March 1998), 246-250.
[4]  DRIAS H., 'A Monte Carlo algorithm for the satisfiability problem', in proc of IEA-AIE'98, Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNCS 1415, Springer-Verlag, Benicassim Spain, (June 1998), 159-169.
[5]  DRIAS H., 'Randomness in Heuristics : An experimental investigation for the maximum satisfiability problem', in proc of IWANN'99, Lectures Notes in Computer Science LNCS 1606, Springer-Verlag, Alicante, Spain, (June 1999), 700-708.
[6]  DRIAS H., AZI N., 'Scatter search for SAT and MAX-SAT problems', in proc of the 33th IEEE SSST, Athens, OHIO, USA, (March 2001), pp. 105-109.
[7]  DRIAS H.& KHABZAOUI M., 'Scatter search with random walk strategy for solving hard MAX-W-SAT problems', in proc of IEA-AIE'2001, Lectures Notes in Computer Science, LNAI 2070, Springer, Budapest Hungary, (June 2001) 35-44.
[8]  DRIAS H., 'Genetic Algorithm versus Scatter search and solving hard MAX-W-SAT problems', in proc of IWANN'2001, Lectures Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 2084, Springer Verlag, (June 2001) Granada, Spain, vol 1 586-593.
[9]  DRIAS H. & IBRI S., Parallel ACS for weighted MAX-SAT, proceedings of SAT'2003, Genes Italie, 454-465.
[10]  DRIAS H., TAIBI A. & ZEGOUR S., Cooperative Ant colonies for solving the weighted maximum satisifiability problem, In proc of Iwann'2003, LNCS 2686, Springer Verlag, Iles Baleares, Spain, June 2003, 446-451.
[11]  DRIAS H. & IBRI S., Parallel ACS for weighted MAX-SAT, In proc of Iwann'2003, LNCS 2686, Springer Verlag, Iles Baleares, Spain, June 2003, 414-418.
[12]  BOUGHACI D., DRIAS H., PTS: A population-based Tabu Search for the Maximum Satisfiability Problems, IEEE-GCC2, November 2004, pp 622-625.
[13]  BOUGHACI D., DRIAS H., Solving weighted MAX-SAT Optimisation Problems with A Taboo Scatter Search, in proc of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, ACM Press 2004, pp 35-36.
[14]  BOUGHACI D., DRIAS H., Efficient and Experimental Meta-heuristics for MAX-SAT Problems, WEA 2005, LNCS 3503, 501-512, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.
[15]  NOUALI N., DRIAS H., DOUCET A., 'Revisiting Distributed Protocols for Mobility at the Application Layer', WEC-2005, 45-48, Istanbul Turkey.
[16]  NOUALI N., DRIAS H., DOUCET A., 'Mobility Management Support for Transactional Applications, 5th Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks ASWN-2005, 29 June-1 July 2005, Paris France.
[17]  NOUALI N., DOUCET A., DRIAS H., A two phase Commit Protocol for Mobile Wireless Environment, Australasian Database Conference, ADC'2005, Newcastle, Australia, CRPIT, 39, Williams, H. E. And Dobbie, G. Eds, 135-144.
[18]  GARICI A., DRIAS H., Cryptanalysis of Substitution Ciphers using Scatter Search, to appear in proc of Iwinac'2005, LNCS, Springer Verlag, Iles Canary, Spain, June 2005, 31-40.
[19]  DRIAS H., SADEG S., YAHI S., Cooperative Bees Swarm for Solving the Maximum Weighted Satisfiabity Problem, In proc of Iwann'2005, LNCS 3512, Springer Verlag, Vilanova i la Geltru, Bracelona, Spain, June 2005, pp. 318-325.
[20]  BESSEDIK M., LAIB R., BOULMERKA A., DRIAS H., 'Ant Colony System for Graph Coloring Problem', International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, CIMCA'2005, 28-30 November 2005, Vienna Austria, pp. 786-791.
[21]  KERRACHE S., DRIAS H., 'Real-Time Search using Multiple Heuristic Estimates', in proc of Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence IICAI-05, pp 2722-2739, December 2005, Pune India.
[22]  KERRACHE S., DRIAS H., 'Real-Time Heuristic Search for Heteregeneous Multi-agent Systems', in proc of Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence IICAI-05, pp 2976-2991, December 2005, Pune India.
[23]  KECHID Samir, DRIAS Habiba, 'Accès Personnalisé à de multiples serveurs d'informations, CORIA 2006, pp 249-255.
[24]  BOUGHACI D., DRIAS H., OUBEKA B., AISSIOUI A., 'A Distributed Firewall using Autonomous Agents', DepCoS-RELCOMEX 2006, Wroclaw University of Technology, 25-27 May 2006.
[25]  BOUGHACI D., DRIAS H., BENDIB A.., BOUZNI Y., 'A Distributed Intrusion Detection Framework based on Autonomous and Mobile Agents', DepCoS-RELCOMEX 2006, Wroclaw University of Technology, 25-27 May 2006.
[26]  NOUALI N., DRIAS H., DOUCET A.,' A Two-phase Protocol for Transaction Commitment in Mobile Ad-hoc Environment', in proc of the 1st International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies, InSciT' 2006, Mérida, Spain, October25-28 2006.
[27]  KECHID S., DRIAS H.,' Personalized Access to Multiple Information Sources', in proc of the 1st International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies, InSciT' 2006, Merida, Spain, October25-28 2006.
[28]  DRIAS H., MOSTEGHANEMI M.,' Using ICT at the University: Application to the orientation and registration of new students', in proc of the International Forum of University Presidents on ICT, IFUP-ICT, Daejon South Korea, October 2006.
[29]  BOUGHACI D., DRIAS H., BENHAMOU B.,''An ebXML-based Multiagent System for B2B e-Commerce'', in: the E-Commerce Technologies Track of the 22nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, ACM Press, Seoul, Korea, march 11-15 2007.
[30]  BENFERHAT S., YAHI S., DRIAS H., 'On the Compilation of Stratified Belief Bases under Linear and Possibilistic Logic Policies', in proc of IJCAI'2007, Hyberabad India, January 6-12 2007, pp.2425-2430.
[31]  TAMEN Z., HAMMAMI L., DRIAS H., AZIZ A., 'Recognition of Handwritten Arabic Writing with Kohonen Networks', in proc of IPCV'2007 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Las Vegas USA, June 25-28 2007.
[32]  BENKHIDER Sadjia., BABA-ALI A.Riad., DRIAS Habiba., 'A new generationless parallel evolutionary algorithm for combinatorial optimization', IEEE International Conference 2007 Singapore.
[33]  BELLATRECHE Ladjel., MISSAOUI Rachida., NECIR Hamid., DRIAS Habiba., 'Selecting and Pruning Algorithms for Bitmap Join Indices using Data Mining', in proc of Dawak, Regensburg, Germany, September 2007.
[34]  BOUGHACI Dalila, BENHAMOU Belaid, DRIAS Habiba, 'IGA: an Improved Genetic Algorithm for MAX-SAT Problems', in Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI)-07, pp 132-150, Pune India, December 2007.
[35]  BOUGHACI Dalila, BENHAMOU Belaid, DRIAS Habiba, 'Stochastic Local Search for the Optimal Winner Determination Problem', Meta Tunisia, October 2008.
[36]  BOUGHACI Dalila, DRIAS Habiba, BENHAMOU Belaid, 'Stochastic Local Search for the Optimal Winner Determination Problem in Combinatorial Auctions', International Conference on Constraint Programming, CP 2008, LNCS Springer-Verlag, pp 593-597.
[37]  BENKRID Soumia, BELLATRECHE Ladjel, DRIAS Habiba, 'A Combined Selection of Fragmentation and Allocation Schemes in Parallel Data Warehouses', DEXA Workshops 2008, pp. 370-374.
[38]  BENFERHAT Salem, YAHI Safa, DRIAS Habiba, 'On the Compilation of Possibilistic Default Theories', Flairs Conference 2008, pp. 613-618.
[39]  BESSEDIK Malika, DAOUDI Asma, DRIAS Habiba, ' A Parallel Approach using ACS and MBO for the graph coloring problem', CIMCA'08, December 10-12 Vienna Austria, 2008.
[40]  LAALAOUI Yacine, DRIAS Habiba, BOURIDAH Adel, BADLISHAH Ahmad., 'Ant Colony System with Stagnation Avoidance for the Scheduling of Real-Time Tasks', IEEE Symposium, Computational Intelligence in SCHEDuling, Nashville, USA, April 2009, pp. 1-6.
[41]  KECHID Samir, DRIAS Habiba, Multi-Agent System for Personalizing Information Source Selection', International Web Intelligence, IEEE/WIC/ACM, 15-18 September, Milano 2009, pp 588-595.
[42]  BENFERHAT Salem, BOUDJELIDA AbdelHamid, DRIAS Habiba, 'Adding Expert Knowledge to TAN-based Intrusion Detection Systems', Secrypt 2009, pp 61-64.
[43]  DRIAS Habiba, MOSTEGHANEMI Hadia 'Bees Swarm Optimization based Approach for Web Information Retrieval, IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, Toronto Canada, September 2010, pp 6-13.
[44]  DRIAS Habiba, FRIHI Ibtissem 'ACO based Approach and Integrating Information Retrieval Technologies in Selecting Bitmap Join Indexes', IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, Toronto Canada, September 2010, pp 448-451.
[45]  HADJIDJ Drifa, DRIAS Habiba, 'A hybrid Grasp and Scatter Search for the Exam Timetabling Problem', ICMWI, IEEE Communications Society, October 2010, pp 297-302.
[46]  HANICHE Fayçal, DRIAS Habiba, MELLAH Hakima, 'Integrating legacy systems in a SOA using an Agent based Approach for Information System Agility', ICMWI, IEEE Communications Society, October 2010, pp 338-343.
[47]  SADEG Souhila, DRIAS Habiba, '', ICMWI, IEEE Communications Society, October 2010, pp 344.
[48]  SADEG Souhila, DRIAS Habiba, Hafid Aid and Mazouz Samir, 'DNA based algorithms for solving both MAX-SAT and MAX-W-SAT problems', IEEE International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2010), pp 195-199.
[49]  BOURIDAH Adel, DRIAS Habiba, '', ICMWI, IEEE Communications Society, October 2010, pp 444.
[50]  IBRI Sarah, NOUREFATH Mustapha, DRIAS Habiba, 'On the integration of dispatching and covering for emergency vehicles management systems', ICMWI, IEEE Communications Society, October 2010.
[51]  MELLAH Hakima, HASSAS Salima, DRIAS Habiba: What, Why and How to Integrate-Self Organization within a SOA. ICEIS (4) 2010: 163-167.
[52]  DRIAS Habiba: Generating materialized views using ant based approaches and information retrieval technologies. CIDM 2011: 276-282.