• Fault Detection, Isolation, and Service Restoration in Distribution Systems: State-of-the-Art and Future Trends 

      Zidan, Aboelsood; Khairalla, Mutaz; Abdrabou, Ahmed M.; Khalifa, Tarek; Shaban, Khaled; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)
      This paper surveys the conceptual aspects, as well as recent developments in fault detection, isolation, and service restoration (FDIR) following an outage in an electric distribution system. This paper starts with a ...
    • Feature selection for effective health index diagnoses of power transformers 

      Benhmed, Kamel; Mooman, Abdelniser; Younes, Abdunnaser; Shaban, Khaled; El-Hag, Ayman ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Article)
      This letter investigates an approach based on feature selection and classification techniques to reduce assessment complexities of power transformers. This approach decreases the number of features by extracting the most ...
    • Finding Behavioural and Imaging Biomarkers of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) using Artificial Intelligence: A Review 

      Sheikh, Sarah; Shaban, Khaled ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a serious ailment in mental health and is a medical illness that has a debilitating impact on a person's ability to think effectively. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), ...
    • Hulmona ( حلمنا ): The universal language model in arabic 

      ElJundi, Obeida; Antoun, Wissam; El Droubi, Nour; Hajj, Hazem; El-Hajj, Wassim; ... more authors ( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      Arabic is a complex language with limited resources which makes it challenging to produce accurate text classification tasks such as sentiment analysis. The utilization of transfer learning (TL) has recently shown promising ...
    • LIME: Long-Term Forecasting Model for Desalination Membrane Fouling to Estimate the Remaining Useful Life of Membrane 

      Eltanbouly, Sohaila; Erradi, Abdelkarim; Tantawy, Ashraf; Ben Said, Ahmed; Shaban, Khaled; ... more authors ( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2023 , Conference Paper)
      Membrane fouling is one of the major problems in desalination processes as it can cause a severe drop in the quality and quantity of the permeate water. This paper presents a data-driven approach for long-term forecasting ...
    • MARL: Multimodal Attentional Representation Learning for Disease Prediction 

      Hamdi, Ali; Aboeleneen, Amr; Shaban, Khaled ( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Existing learning models often utilise CT-scan images to predict lung diseases. These models are posed by high uncertainties that affect lung segmentation and visual feature learning. We introduce MARL, a novel Multimodal ...
    • Methodical evaluation of Arabic word embeddings 

      Elrazzaz, Mohammed; Elbassuoni, Shady; Shaban, Khaled; Helwe, Chadi ( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      Many unsupervised learning techniques have been proposed to obtain meaningful representations of words from text. In this study, we evaluate these various techniques when used to generate Arabic word embeddings. We first ...
    • MINTED: Multicast virtual network embedding in cloud data centers with delay constraints 

      Ayoubi, Sara; Assi, Chadi; Shaban, Khaled; Narayanan, Lata ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Article)
      Network virtualization is regarded as the pillar of cloud computing, enabling the multi-tenancy concept where multiple Virtual Networks (VNs) can cohabit the same substrate network. With network virtualization, the problem ...
    • Model-based risk assessment for cyber physical systems security 

      Tantawy, Ashraf; Abdelwahed, Sherif; Erradi, Abdelkarim; Shaban, Khaled ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)
      Traditional techniques for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) security design either treat the cyber and physical systems independently, or do not address the specific vulnerabilities of real time embedded controllers and networks ...
    • Multi-stage intra-patient template matching for prostate detection in MR volumes 

      Jahed, Zeinab; Shaban, Khaled; Tizhoosh, Hamid R. (2013 , Conference Paper)
      Detecting objects, a significant task in computer vision, is accompanied with many challenges. When we focus on medical images, the challenges of detecting an organ or a tumour exhibit their own specific difficulties. ...
    • Network function virtualization scheduling with transmission delay optimization 

      Qu, Long; Assi, Chadi; Shaban, Khaled ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      To accelerate the implementation of network functions/middle boxes and reduce the deployment cost, recently the concept of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has emerged and became a topic of much interest attracting ...
    • Optimal Polynomial Time Algorithm for Restoring Multicast Cloud Services 

      Ayoubi, Sara; Assi, Chadi; Narayanan, Lata; Shaban, Khaled ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)
      The failure-prone nature of data center networks has evoked countless contributions to develop proactive and reactive countermeasures. Yet, most of these techniques were developed with unicast services in mind. When in ...
    • Predicting transformers oil parameters 

      Shaban, Khaled; El-Hag, Ayman; Matveev, Andrei ( IEEE , 2009 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper different configurations of artificial neural networks are applied to predict various transformers oil parameters. The prediction is performed through modeling the relationship between the transformer insulation ...
    • Prioritizing deadline-constrained data flows in cloud datacenter networks 

      Khabbaz, Maurice; Shaban, Khaled; Assi, Chadi; Qu, Long ( Association for Computing Machinery , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Real-time interactive application workloads (e.g. web search, social networking, etc.) are composed of a remarkably large number of mini request partitions that require stringent delayminimal aggregation of responses and ...
    • Progressive recovery for cloud-based infrastructure services 

      Pourvali, Mahsa; Liang, Kaile; Gu, Feng; Shaban, Khaled; Khan, Samee; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      Cloud-based services allow users to outsource their application and infrastructure needs over external datacenter/ networking facilities. However, as these offerings gain traction, there is a pressing need to address ...
    • Progressive recovery for network virtualization after large-scale disasters 

      Pourvali, Mahsa; Liang, Kaile; Gu, Feng; Bai, Hao; Shaban, Khaled; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Network virtualization allows users to build cusomized interconnected storage/computing configurations for their business needs. Today this capability is being widely used to improve the scalability and reliability of ...
    • Query hidden attributes in social networks 

      Nazi, Azade; Thirumuruganathan, Saravanan; Hristidis, Vagelis; Zhang, Nan; Shaban, Khaled; ... more authors ( IEEE Computer Society , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      Micro blogs and collaborative content sites such as Twitter and Amazon are popular among millions of users who generate huge numbers of tweets, posts, and reviews every day. Despite their popularity, these sites only provide ...
    • Regional failure survivability for cloud networking services using post fault restoration 

      Gu, Feng; Shaban, Khaled; Ghani, Nasir; Hayat, Majeed; Assi, Chadi (2013 , Conference Paper)
      Cloud computing services are being adopted to expand applications across dispersed data-center sites. As these new paradigms require active data exchange, they impose further virtual network (VN) mappings over operator ...
    • Reliability-aware service provisioning in NFV-enabled enterprise datacenter networks 

      Qu, Long; Assi, Chadi; Shaban, Khaled; Khabbaz, Maurice ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      Network Function Visualization (NFV) enables the complete decoupling of Network Functions (NFs) (e.g., firewall, intrusion detection, routing, etc.) from physical middleboxes used to implement service-specific and strictly ...
    • Securing Smart Grid Communication using Ethereum Smart Contracts 

      Akhras, Raphaelle; El-Hajj, Wassim; Majdalani, Michel; Hajj, Hazem; Jabr, Rabih; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      Smart grids are being continually adopted as a replacement of the traditional power grid systems to ensure safe, efficient, and cost-effective power distribution. The smart grid is a heterogeneous communication network ...