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  • 2014 IEEE 17th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) 
    Khoury, John; Khoury, Joud; SOE; 200103005; Civil Engineering; john.khoury@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (IEEE, )
    Current research on autonomous intersection management makes a set of assumptions including active Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) or Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications, and/or centralized control. While they enhance ...
  • Evacuation of a highly congested urban city 
    El Khoury, John; Arnaout, Jean-Paul M.; El Khoury, Caline; SOE; 200103005; Civil Engineering; john.khoury@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    For a given transportation network, evacuation route planning identifies routes and route schedules to minimize the time to evacuate the vulnerable population due to an imminent disaster. In this paper, we present a ...
  • A practical routing model for optimized pavement data collection 
    El Khoury, John; Srour, F. Jordan; Bazi, Gabriel; SOE; SOB; 200102005; Civil Engineering; john.khoury@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (SSRN, )
    Federal laws require regular condition reporting for portions of the national highway system. Most agencies use instrumented vehicles to collect data on and report the required information. The routing of these vehicles, ...
  • Approximate XML structure validation 
    Tekli, Joe; Chbeir, Richard; Traina, Caetano; Traina, Agma J.M.; Fileto, Renato; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
  • XML grammar matching and comparison 
    Tekli, Joe; Chbeir, Richard; Yetongnon, Kokou; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    XML grammar matching has found considerable interest recently, due to the growing number of heterogeneous XML documents on the web, and the increasing need to integrate, and consequently search and retrieve XML documents ...
  • IEEE International Multidisciplinary Conference on Engineering Technology 
    Tekli, Joe; Ayoub, Issa; Codouni, Karl J.; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (IEEE, )
    This paper briefly describes and evaluates SICOS, a tool for Social Image Cluster-based Organization and Search, allowing to group together images sharing similar semantic and visual features, to simplify their organization ...
  • Semantic and structure based XML similarity 
    Tekli, Joe; Chbeir, Richard; Yetongnon, Kokou; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
  • East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems 
    Tekli, Joe; Chbeir, Richard; Luo, Yi; Yetongnon, Kokou; Ibanez, Carlos Raymundo; Traina, Agma J.M.; Traina, Caeteno; Al Assad, Marc; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (Springer, )
    This paper focuses on the important problem of semantic-aware search in textual (structured, semi-structured, NoSQL) databases. This problem has emerged as a required extension of the standard containment keyword based ...
  • Towards efficient horizontal multimedia database fragmentation using semantic-based predicates implication 
    Tekli, Joe; Getahun, Fekade; Atnafu, Solomon; Chbeiru, Richard; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Partitioning techniques are traditionally used in distributed system design to reduce accesses to irrelevant information by grouping data frequently accessed together in specific fragments. Here, we address the primary ...
  • 18th International Conference on Extending Database Technology 
    Tekli, Joe; Charbel, Nathalie; Chbeir, Richard; Tekli, Gilbert; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    XML semantic-aware processing has become a motivating and important challenge in Web data management, data processing, and information retrieval. While XML data is semi-structured, yet it remains prone to lexical ...
  • International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications 
    Tekli, Joe; Salameh, Khouloud; Chbeir, Richard; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (Springer, )
    The goal of this work is to provide an original (semi-automatic) annotation framework titled SVG-to-RDF whichconverts a collection of raw Scalable vector graphic (SVG) images into a searchable semantic-based RDF graph ...
  • International Conference on Conceptual Modeling 
    Tekli, Joe; Ticona-Herrera, Regina; Chbeir, Richard; Laborie, Sebastien; Dongo, Irvin; Guzman, Renato; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (Springer, )
    Billions of RDF triples are currently available on the Web through the Linked Open Data cloud (e.g., DBpedia, LinkedGeoData and New York Times). Governments, universities as well as companies (e.g., BBC, CNN) are also ...
  • 2012 Eighth International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet Based Systems 
    Tekli, J.; Chbeir, R.; Ghannam, C.; Issa, Y. B.; Awada, A.; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (IEEE, )
    The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates at 285 million the number of people affected by visual deficiencies, among which 39 millions are totally blind. In our modern society saturated with visual media tools and ...
  • International Conference on Data Engineering and Internet Technology 
    Tekli, J.; Harazaki, M.; Yokoyama, S.; Fukuta, N.; Chbeir, R.; Ishikawa, H.; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; Lebanese American University (Scopus, )
    XML datasets of various sizes and properties are needed to evaluate the correctness and efficiency of XML-based algorithms and applications. While several downloadable datasets can be found online, these are predefined by ...
  • ASSETS '13 Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility 
    Tekli, Joe; Awada, Amine; Bou Issa, Youssef; Chbeir, Richard; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; Lebanese American University (ACM, )
    In this demo paper, we briefly present our experimental prototype, entitled EVIAC (EValuation of VIbration Accessibility), allowing visually impaired users to access simple contour-based images using vibrating touch ...
  • MEDES '13 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems 
    Tekli, Joe; Abou Rjeily, Antoine; Chbeir, Richard; Tekli, Gilbert; Houngue, Pelagie; Yetongnon, Kokou; Abebe, Minale Ashagrie; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (ACM, )
    The Web has known a very fast evolution: going from the Web 1.0, known as Web of Documents where users are merely consumers of static information, to the more dynamic Web 2.0, known as social or collaborative Web where ...
  • 2013 International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems 
    Tekli, Joe; Tekli, Gilbert; Semaan, Bernard; Bou Issa, Youssef; Chbeir, Richard; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; Lebanese American University (IEEE, )
    The problems of Web data accessibility and navigation for blind users have become an active research field for the past decade. Many techniques have been created to solve them, some are hardware based and others are software ...
  • 2011 IEEE International Conference on Web Services 
    Tekli, Joe; Damiani, Ernesto; Chbeir, Richard; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (IEEE, )
    SOAP has been widely adopted as a simple, robust and extensible XML-based protocol for the exchange of messages among web services. Unfortunately, SOAP communications have two major performance-related drawbacks: i) ...
  • MMAR '11 Proceedings of the 2011 international ACM workshop on Medical multimedia analysis and retrieval 
    Tekli, Joe; Costa, Alceu Ferraz; Traina, Agma Juci Machado; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (ACM, )
    This paper proposes a new feature extraction method: the Fast Fractal Stack, or FFS. The extraction algorithm consists in decomposing the input grayscale image into a stack of binary images from which the fractal dimension ...
  • International Conference on Web Engineering 
    Tekli, Joe; Chbeir, Richard; Ferri, Fernando; Grifoni, Patrizia; SOE; 201306321joe; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (Springer, )
    GML is emerging as the new standard for representing geographic information in GISs on the Web, allowing the encoding of structurally and semantically rich geographic data in self describing XML-based geographic entities. ...

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