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  • XML document-grammar comparison: related problems and applications 
    Tekli, Joe; Chbeir, Richard; Traina, Agma J.M.; Traina, Caetano; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    XML document comparison is becoming an ever more popular research issue due to the increasingly abundant use of XML. Likewise, a growing interest fosters the development of XML grammar matching and comparison, due to the ...
  • Using XML-Based multicasting to improve web service scalability 
    Tekli, Joe; Damiani, Ernesto; Chbeir, Richard; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Web services’ (WS) emphasis on open standards provides substantial benefits over previous application integration techniques. A major WS feature is SOAP, a simple, robust and extensible XML-based protocol for the exchange ...
  • Minimizing user effort in XML grammar matching 
    Tekli, Joe; Chbeir, Richard; 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 need to integrate, search and retrieve XML documents originated from different ...
  • A novel XML document structure comparison framework based-on sub-tree commonalities and label semantics 
    Tekli, Joe; Chbeir, Richard; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    XML similarity evaluation has become a central issue in the database and information communities, its applications ranging over document clustering, version control, data integration and ranked retrieval. Various algorithms ...
  • SOAP processing performance and enhancement 
    Tekli, Joe M.; Damiani, Ernesto; Chbeir, Richard; Gianni, Gabriele; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    The web services (WS) technology provides a comprehensive solution for representing, discovering, and invoking services in a wide variety of environments, including Service Oriented Architectures (SOA ) and grid computing ...
  • Approximate XML structure validation based on document–grammar tree similarity 
    Tekli, Joe; Chbeir, Richard; Traina, Agma J.M.; Traina, Caetano; Fileto, Renato; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Comparing XML documents with XML grammars, also known as XML document and grammar validation, is useful in various applications such as: XML document classification, document transformation, grammar evolution, XML retrieval, ...
  • Building semantic trees from XML documents 
    Tekli, Joe; Charbel, Nathalie; Chbeir, Richard; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    The distributed nature of the Web, as a decentralized system exchanging information between heterogeneous sources, has underlined the need to manage interoperability, i.e., the ability to automatically interpret information ...
  • An overview on XML semantic disambiguation from unstructured text to semi-structured data 
    Tekli, Joe; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Since the last two decades, XML has gained momentum as the standard for web information management and complex data representation. Also, collaboratively built semi-structured information resources, such as Wikipedia, have ...
  • BUEVA 
    Ammouri, Ali H.; Hamade, Ramsey F.; SOE; 201306469; Industrial And Mechanical Engineering; ali.ammouri@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    This paper presents a novel actuator design for vibration-induced micromachining. The bi-directional ultrasonic elliptical vibration actuator (BUEVA) possesses a combination of features that renders it suitable for the ...
  • Toward predicting the performance of novice CAD users based on their profiled technical attributes 
    Ammouri, A.H.; Artail, H.; Hamade, R.F.; SOE; 201306469; Industrial And Mechanical Engineering; ali.ammouri@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    In previously published research (Hamade et al., 2005, Hamade et al., 2007, Hamade et al., 2009 and Hamade and Artail, 2008) the authors developed a framework for analyzing the technical profiles of novice computer-aided ...
  • On the relevance of uniaxial tensile testing of urogynecological prostheses 
    Ammouri, Ali H.; Hamade, Ramsey F.; Bazi, Tony; SOE; 201306469; Industrial And Mechanical Engineering; ali.ammouri@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Introduction and hypothesis Uniaxial tensile testing is commonly used to calculate values of mechanical properties of urogynecological prostheses used in stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse surgery in ...
  • Current rise criterion 
    Ammouri, A.H.; Hamade, R.F.; SOE; 201306469; Industrial And Mechanical Engineering; ali.ammouri@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Presented in this work is a novel tool-condition criterion dubbed as the current rise criterion (CRC). This criterion is based on the measured current values of the machine tool’s spindle and drive motors. The CRC comprises ...
  • On the selection of constitutive equation for modeling the friction stir processes of twin roll cast wrought AZ31B 
    Ammouri, A.H.; Hamade, R.F.; SOE; 201306463; Industrial And Mechanical Engineering; ali.ammouri@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Proper numerical modeling of the Friction Stir Processes (FSPs) requires the identification of a suitable constitutive equation which accurately describes the stress-strain material behavior under an applicable range of ...
  • An experimental and numerical study of the effect of cryogenic cooling on the surface integrity of drilled holes in AZ31B Mg alloy 
    Ammouri, A. H.; Kheireddine, A. H.; Lu, T.; Dillon, O. W.; Hamade, R. F.; Jawahir, I. S.; SOE; 201306469; Industrial And Mechanical Engineering; ali.ammouri@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    In-process cryogenic cooling has been credited with more precise products and enhanced integrity of machined surfaces. Enhanced surface integrity properties include smoother and more precise surfaces, grain refinement, and ...
  • Simulation and optimization of ant colony optimization algorithm for the stochastic uncapacitated location-allocation problem 
    El Khoury, John; Arnaout, Jean-Paul; Arnaout, Georges; SOE; 200103005; Civil Engineering; john.khoury@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    This study proposes a novel methodology towards using ant colony optimization (ACO) with stochastic demand. In particular, an optimization-simulation-optimization approach is used to solve the Stochastic uncapacitated ...
  • Experimental and numerical investigation of a three-dimensional vertical-axis wind turbine with variable-pitch 
    Elkhoury, M.; Kiwata, T.; Aoun, E.; SOE; 200403272; Industrial And Mechanical Engineering; mkhoury@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    A combined experimental and numerical investigation is carried out to study the performance of a micro vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) with variable-pitch. Three-dimensional numerical simulations are essentially employed, ...
  • Effect of pitch-Up motion on flow structure adjacent to the X-45 planform 
    Elkhoury, M.; SOE; 200403272; Industrial And Mechanical Engineering; mkhoury@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
  • Assessment of turbulence models for the simulation of turbulent flows past bluff bodies 
    Elkhoury, M.; SOE; 200403272; Industrial And Mechanical Engineering; mkhoury@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    The accuracy of a recently developed one-equation turbulence model in predicting complex flows with massive separation is assessed against the well-known Spalart Allmaras (SA) and the k-ω-SST-Scale Adaptive Simulation (SAS) ...
  • Optimizing Functional Unit Binding During HighLevel Synthesis 
    Ouaiss, Iyad; Bassil, Layale; SOE; 200105659; Electrical And Computer Engineering; iiyad.ouaiss@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    One of the three central synthesis tasks in a typical high-level synthesis system is binding which assigns operations to functional units, values to storage units, and interconnects these components with wires and buses ...
  • Enhanced Technology Mapping for FPGAs with Exploration of Cell Configurations 
    Ouaiss, Iyad; Zgheib, Grace; SOE; 200105659; Electrical And Computer Engineering; iiyad.ouaiss@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    In the state-of-the-art field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), logic circuits are synthesized and mapped on clusters of look-up tables. However, arithmetic operations benefit from an existing dedicated adder along with a ...

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