• A general framework for performance guaranteed green data center networking 

      Wang, Ting; Xia, Yu; Muppala, Jogesh; Hamdi, Mounir; Foufou, Sebti ( IEEE , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      From the perspective of resource allocation and routing, this paper aims to save as much energy as possible in data center networks. We present a general framework, based on the blocking island paradigm, to try to maximize ...
    • A guaranteed performance of a green data center based on the contribution of vital nodes 

      Baccour, Emna; Foufou, Sebti; Hamila, Ridha ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      In order to satisfy the need for the critical computing resources, many data center architectures proposed to house a huge number of network devices. These devices are used to achieve the highest performance in case of ...
    • A survey on educational ontologies and their development cycle 

      Karkar, AbdelGhani; Al Ja'am, Jihad Mohamad; Foufou, Sebti ( Springer New York LLC , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Nowadays, the grid of Internet has demonstrated to be plentiful and tremendous data source of information, where diverse domains can be reached and mined. Semantic web is part of the Internet grid where knowledge is provided ...
    • A virtual milling machine model to generate machine-monitoring data for predictive analytics 

      Lechevalier, David; Shin, Seung-Jun; Woo, Jungyub; Rachuri, Sudarsan; Foufou, Sebti ( Springer New York LLC , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Real data from manufacturing processes are essential to create useful insights for decision-making. However, acquiring real manufacturing data can be expensive and time consuming. To address this issue, we implement a ...
    • An automated approach to translate a biological process from ODEs into graphical hybrid functional Petri Nets 

      Mecheter, Imene; Hadjidj, Rachid; Foufou, Sebti ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      The study of biological systems is growing rapidly, and can be considered as an intrinsic task in biological research, and a prerequisite for diagnosing diseases and drug development. The integration of biological studies ...
    • An e-learning mobile system to generate illustrations for Arabic text 

      Karkar, AbdelGhani; Al Ja'am, Jihad Mohamad; Foufou, Sebti; Sleptchenko, Andrei ( IEEE Computer Society , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Smart devices applications can assist children in improving their learning capabilities and comprehension skills. However most applications are built without taking into consideration the effective needs and background of ...
    • An improved star test for implicit polynomial objects 

      Fang, Lincong; Michelucci, Dominique; Foufou, Sebti ( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)
      For a given point set, a particular point is called a star if it can see all the boundary points of the set. The star test determines whether a candidate point is a star for a given set. It is a key component of some ...
    • Arabic named entity recognition-a survey and analysis 

      Dandashi, Amal; Al Jaam, Jihad; Foufou, Sebti ( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      As Arabic digital data has been increasing in abundance; the need for processing this information is growing. Named entity recognition (NER) is an information extraction technique that is vital to the processes of natural ...
    • Audio-visual video classification system design: For Arabic News domain 

      Dandashi, Amal; Aljaam, Jihad; Foufou, Sebti ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      There are many research initiatives tackling automated multimodal video classification, however very few of them are targeted towards classifying Arabic news-related videos. In light of the vast proliferation of raw digital ...
    • Cluster validity index based on Jeffrey divergence 

      Ben Said, Ahmed; Hadjidj, Rachid; Foufou, Sebti ( Springer London , 2017 , Article)
      Cluster validity indexes are very important tools designed for two purposes: comparing the performance of clustering algorithms and determining the number of clusters that best fits the data. These indexes are in general ...
    • Computation of Yvon-Villarceau circles on Dupin cyclides and construction of circular edge right triangles on tori and Dupin cyclides 

      Garnier, Lionel; Barki, Hichem; Foufou, Sebti; Puech, Loic ( Elsevier Ltd , 2014 , Article)
      Ring Dupin cyclides are non-spherical algebraic surfaces of degree four that can be defined as the image by inversion of a ring torus. They are interesting in geometric modeling because: (1) they have several families of ...
    • Cross-industry standard test method developments: from manufacturing to wearable robots 

      Bostelman, Roger; Messina, Elena; Foufou, Sebti ( Zhejiang University , 2017 , Article Review)
      Manufacturing robotics is moving towards human-robot collaboration with light duty robots being used side by side with workers. Similarly, exoskeletons that are both passive (spring and counterbalance forces) and active ...
    • Edge guided total variation for image denoising 

      Ben Said, Ahmed; Hadjidj, Rachid; Foufou, Sebti; Abidi, Mongi ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper, we present a novel denoising algorithm based on the Rodin-Osher-Fatemi (ROF) model. The goal is to ensure maximum noise removal while preserving image details. To achieve this goal, we developed a new edge ...
    • Green data center networks: A holistic survey and design guidelines 

      Baccour, Emna; Foufou, Sebti; Hamila, Ridha; Erbad, Aiman ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      Data Center Networks (DCNs) are attracting immense interest from the industry, research and academia to keep pace with the increase of Internet services demands. One of the major concerns that draws the attention of ...
    • Integrating variability management in data center networks 

      Chkirbene, Zina; Foufou, Sebti; Hamila, Ridha ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      Data centers have an important role in supporting cloud computing services (i.e. checking social media, sending emails, video conferencing, .). Hence, data centers topologies design became more important and must be able ...
    • LaCoDa: Layered connected topology for massive data centers 

      Chkirbene, Zina; Foufou, Sebti; Hamila, Ridha; Tari, Zahir; Zomaya, Albert Y. ( Academic Press , 2017 , Article)
      One of the fundamental challenges of existing data centers is to design a network that interconnects massive number of servers, and therefore providing an efficient and fault-tolerant routing service to upper-layer ...
    • Mobile manipulator performance measurement towards manufacturing assembly tasks 

      Bostelman, Roger; Foufou, Sebti; Legowik, Steve; Hong, Tsai Hong ( Springer New York LLC , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Mobile manipulator performance measurement research is relatively minimal as compared to that of robot arms. Measurement methods, such as optical tracking systems, are useful for measuring the performance of mobile ...
    • Model-based engineering for the integration of manufacturing systems with advanced analytics 

      Lechevalier, David; Narayanan, Anantha; Rachuri, Sudarsan; Foufou, Sebti; Lee, Y. Tina ( Springer New York LLC , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      To employ data analytics effectively and efficiently on manufacturing systems, engineers and data scientists need to collaborate closely to bring their domain knowledge together. In this paper, we introduce a domain-specific ...
    • Modeling and Simulation of Bio-pathways using Hybrid Functional Petri Nets 

      Mecheter, Imene (2017 , Master Thesis)
      The study of biological systems is growing rapidly, and can be considered as an intrinsic task in biological research and a prerequisite for diagnosing diseases and drug development. The integration of biological studies ...
    • Modified total variation regularization using fuzzy complement for image denoising 

      Ben Said, Ahmed; Foufou, Sebti ( IEEE Computer Society , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper, we propose a denoising algorithm based on the Total Variation (TV) model. Specifically, we associate to the regularization term of the Rodin-Osher-Fatimi (ROF) functional a small weight whenever denoising ...