• Real-time robotic avatar control using fuzzy gaze-classification for people with disability 

      Qidwai, Uvais; Shakir, Mohamed; Bahameish, Mariam ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Robotic control with gaze-classification has been an area of interest for quite some time. In this paper, a novel solution of implementing sensing system with intelligent visualization has been presented. Such a system can ...
    • Real-Time Scheduling for Electric Vehicles Charging/Discharging Using Reinforcement Learning 

      Mhaisen, N.; Fetais, N.; Massoud, Ahmed ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      With the increase in Electric Vehicles (EVs) penetration, their charging needs form an additional burden on the grid. Thus, charging coordination is necessary for safe and efficient EV use. The scheduling of EVs is especially ...
    • Reasoning about Policies in Security-Aware Service Discovery Using Answer Set Programming 

      Asuncion, Vernon; Khan, Khaled M.; Erradi, Abdelkarim; Alhazbi, Saleh ( World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd , 2016 , Article)
      In order to enable a secure interaction between dynamically discovered software services and the client's application in a cooperative information system such as service oriented system, one of the pre-requisites is the ...
    • Reasoning about security policies of services using answer set programming 

      Asuncion, Vernon; Khan, Khaled M.; Erradi, Abdelkarim; Alhazbi, Saleh ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper, we propose a formal framework for checking the consistency of security policies of services using Answer Set Programming (ASP). We illustrate that the formalisation of security policies of the service providers ...
    • Robotic probe positioning system for structural health monitoring 

      Qidwai U.; Ijaz A.; Akbar A. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Structural health Monitoring (SHM) is a very critical component for sustainable civil and mechanical structures in modern urban settings. The sky-scrappers and huge bridges in modern metropolis today are essential aspects ...
    • Role updating in information systems using model checking 

      Hu, Jinwei; Khan, Khaled M.; Zhang, Yan; Bai, Yun; Li, Ruixuan ( Springer London , 2017 , Article)
      The role-based access control (RBAC) has significantly simplified the management of users and permissions in information systems. In dynamic environments, systems are constantly undergoing changes, and accordingly, the ...
    • Secure Bluetooth Communication in Smart Healthcare Systems: A Novel Community Dataset and Intrusion Detection System 

      Zubair, Mohammed; Ghubaish, Ali; Unal, Devrim; Al-Ali, Abdulla; Reimann, Thomas; ... more authors ( MDPI , 2022 , Article)
      Smart health presents an ever-expanding attack surface due to the continuous adoption of a broad variety of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices and applications. IoMT is a common approach to smart city solutions that ...
    • Short survey of techniques for visualizing events recorded in logs 

      Fernandez R.; Fetais N. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Nowadays, data is being generated in large volumes and the users are left with a staggering amount of textual data that needs to be transformed into information to derive some knowledge from it. However, transforming and ...
    • SLiFi: Exploiting Visible Light Communication VLC to Authenticate WiFi Access Points 

      Amin, Hafsa; Asadulla, Faryal; Jaffar, Aisha; Oligeri, Gabriele; Al-Sabah, Mashael ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      This work presents an effective and efficient solution (SLiFi) to the evil twin attack in wireless networks. The evil twin is a rogue Wifi Access Point (AP) that pretends to be an authentic one by using the same network ...
    • Smart energy usage and visualization based on micro-moments 

      Alsalemi, Abdullah; Bensaali, Faycal; Amira, Abbes; Fetais, Noora; Sardianos, Christos; ... more authors ( Springer Verlag , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      Due to global energy demands and overwhelming environmental dilemmas, exorbitant domestic energy usage is a colossal barrier towards energy efficiency. Tremendous research efforts have been poured into a plethora of methods ...
    • Smart Grid Cybersecurity: Standards and Technical Countermeasures 

      Hussain S.; Meraj M.; Abughalwa M.; Shikfa A. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Cybersecurity in smart grids is of critical importance given the heavy reliance of modern societies on electricity and the recent cyberattacks that resulted in blackouts. The evolution of the legacy electric grid to a ...
    • SOLD: A node-Splitting algorithm for R-tree based on Objects' Locations Distribution 

      Al-Nsour E.; Sleit A.; Alshraideh M. ( SAGE Publications Ltd , 2019 , Article)
      Spatial data indexing methods are of extreme importance as they massively build up as a result of the explosive growth in capturing data with spatial features. No matter how much the data size is, eventually it will reside ...
    • SpiralSRA: A threat-specific security risk assessment framework for the cloud 

      Nhlabatsi A.; Hong J.B.; Kim D.S.; Fernandez R.; Fetais N.; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Conventional security risk assessment approaches for cloud infrastructures do not explicitly consider risk with respect to specific threats. This is a challenge for a cloud provider because it may apply the same risk ...
    • Stateless Security Risk Assessment for Dynamic Networks 

      Hong J.B.; Yusuf S.E.; Kim D.S.; Khan K.M. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Emerging networking technologies, such as cloud and Software Defined Networking, provide flexibility, elasticity and functionalities to change the network configurations over time. However, changes also impose unpredictable ...
    • Substring search over encrypted data 

      Shikfa, Abdullatif ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Our data, be it personal or professional, is increasingly outsourced. This results from the development of cloud computing in the past ten years, a paradigm that shifts computing to a utility. Even without realizing it, ...
    • Survey of Information Visualization Techniques for Enhancing Visual Analysis 

      Fernandez, Rachael; Fetais, Noora ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      Visualization of data helps to transform a problem into a perceptual task that is easier to comprehend. It helps users to perceive patterns from large amount of data in order to make informed decisions. When visualization ...
    • Systematic identification of threats in the cloud: A Survey 

      Hong J.B.; Nhlabatsi A.; Kim D.S.; Hussein A.; Fetais N.; ... more authors ( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)
      When a vulnerability is discovered in a system, some key questions often asked by the security analyst are what threat(s) does it pose, what attacks may exploit it, and which parts of the system it affects. Answers to those ...
    • The role of EEG and EMG combined virtual reality gaming system in facial palsy rehabilitation - A case report 

      Qidwai U.; Ajimsha M.S.; Shakir M. ( Churchill Livingstone , 2019 , Article)
      Background The recovery rates for facial palsy are usually excellent; however, regularly patients present with problems with their fine facial movements that affect their emotional expressions. Objective To discover the ...
    • Traffic Analysis Attacks on Tor: A Survey 

      Basyoni L.; Fetais N.; Erbad A.; Mohamed A.; Guizani M. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      The Tor anonymity network is one of the most popular and widely used tools to protect the privacy of online users. Tor provides defenses against multiple adversarial activities aiming to identify or trace the users. Traffic ...
    • Using thermochromic ink for medical simulations 

      Alsalemi, Abdullah; Aldisi, Mohammed; Alhomsi, Yahya; Ahmed, Ibrahim; Bensaali, Faycal; ... more authors ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2017 , Article)
      Background: In medical simulation and training, blood is used to exhibit its different behaviors in context. In some cases, blood color differential is an imperative visual effect to ensure high-fidelity training and ...