Journal Publications

• Nasser, D. Serhal, R. Barakeh, M. Rammal, P. Vaudon, “SAR Reduction for PIFA Antennas Used in Mobile Phones”, Unitedscholars, accepted, Mar. 2017.
• Serhal, R. Chantalat, M. Hajj., E. Arnaud, T. Monédière, B. Jecko, “Planar Sectoral EBG Antennas For High Data Rate Wireless Terrestrial Communications with Vehicles”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol.53, Issue 2, pp.381-384, Feb. 2011.
• Serhal, M. Hajj, R. Chantalat, J. Drouet, B. Jecko, “Multi-fed sectoral EBG antenna for WiMAX applications”, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol.8, pp.620-623, 2009.
• Hajj, E. Rodes, D. Serhal, H. Chreim, E. Arnaud, and B. Jecko, “Rectangular M-PRS structure for sectoral base station antenna with vertical polarization”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol.52, Issue 4, pp.990-994, Apr. 2010.
• Hajj, E. Rodes, D. Serhal, T. Monédière, B. Jecko, “Design of Sectoral Antennas Using a Metallic EBG Structure and Multiple Sources Feeding for Base Station Applications”, International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, Vol.2008, 2008.
• Hajj, E. Rodes, D. Serhal, B. Jecko, “Metallic EBG Sectoral Antennas with different polarizations”, Automatika, Journal for Control, Measurement, Electronics, Computing and Communications, Vol.49, No. 3-4, November 2008.
• Layal Abu Daher, Rached Zantout, Islam Elkabani, “'Dynamic Evolution Of Some Career Opportunities Hashtags On Twitter”, submitted for publication to the Jordanian Journal of Computers and Information Technology.
• Auday Al-Dulaimy, Wassim Itani, Rached Zantout, Ahmed Zekri “Type-Aware Virtual Machine Management for Energy Efficient Cloud Data Centers”, submitted for Publication.
• Damaj, M. Imdoukh, R. Zantout, “Parallel Hardware for Faster Morphological Analysis”, Journal of King Saud University, Vol. 29, Issue 3, Computer and Information Sciences, pp. 427-440, A.H. 1437-2017.
• Salah Al-Shami, Ali El-Zaart, Ahmed Zekri, Khaled Almustafa, Rached Zantout, “Number Recognition in the Saudi License Plates Using Classification and Clustering Methods”, the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Information Sciences, vol. 11, no. 1, January 1, 2017.
• Islam Elkabani, Lama Hamandi, Rached Zantout, Simar Mansi, “Improving Web Accessibility” , International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 11, No. 12, July 2016, pp. 7836-7845.
• Auday Al-Dulaimy, Ahmed Zekri, Wassim Itani, Rached Zantout “Power Management in Virtualized Data Centers: State of the Art”, Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications (JoCCASA), (2016) 5:6, pp. 1-15, Springer.
• Auday Al-Dulaimy, Ahmed Zekri, Wassim Itani, Rached Zantout “Toward Solving the Problem of Virtual Machine Placement In Cloud Computing: A Job Classification Approach”, Journal of Computing Science, Science Publications, vol. 12, issue 3, pp. 113-127, 2016.
• Rached Zantout, Ziad Osman “Using Statistical Properties to Enhance Text Categorization”, Journal on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: JSCI, vol. 13, no. 3, 2015, pp. 68-74
• Suhad A. Yousif, Venus W. Samawi, Islam Elkabani, Rached Zantout, “The Effect of Combining Different Semantic Relations on Arabic Text Classification”, World of Computer Science and Information Technology Journal (WCSIT), vol. 5, no. 6, 2015, 112-118.
• Suhad A. Yousif, Venus W. Samawi, Islam Elkabani, Rached Zantout, “Enhancement of Arabic Text Classification Using Semantic Relations of Arabic WordNet”, Journal of Computer Science, 2015, 11 (3): 498.509.
• Zantout, Rached, Guessoum, Ahmed, Obstacles Facing Arabic Machine Translation: Building a Neural-Network-Based Transfer Module as an Example, Papers in Translation Studies, Editor: Sattar Izwaini, Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Series: Studies in Language and Translation, Subject: Language and Literature, 01/03/2015, ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-7228-7.
• Hamandi, K. Almustafa, R. Zantout, H. Obeid, “Using Character Recognition for Plate Localization” , The International Journal of Multimedia & Its Applications (IJMA), Vo. 4, No. 5, pp. 39-50, October 2012.
• Salameh, R. Zantout, N. Mansour, “Improving the Accuracy of English-Arabic Statistical Sentence Alignment”, International Arab Journal of Information Technology (IAJIT), Volume 8, No. 2, pp. 171-177, April 2011.
• Yakzan, I. Damaj, R. Zantout, “GPS-Based Vehicle Tracking System on Chip”, International Journal of Electrical & Computer Sciences IJECS-IJENS Vol: 10 No: 04, August 2010.
• Ahmed Guessoum, Rached Zantout, A Methodology for Evaluating Arabic Machine Translation Systems, The Journal of Machine Translation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Volume 18, Issue 4, Dec 2004, Pages 299 – 335.
• Zantout and A. Guessoum, An Automatic English-Arabic HTML Page Translation System, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol. 4, no. 24, October 2001.
• Guessoum, A. and R. Zantout, A Methodology for a Semi-Automatic Evaluation of the Language Coverage of Machine Translation System Lexicons, The Journal of Machine Translation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, vol.16, Issue 2, June 2001, Pages 127-149.
• Zantout, Rached and Guessoum, Ahmed, Arabic Machine Translation: A Strategic Choice for the Arab World, Journal of King Saud University, Vol. 12, Computer and Information Sciences, pp. 117-144, A.H. 1420-2000.
• Hamandi, Lama, AlMustafa, Khaled, Zantout, Rached, Obeid, Hasan, Automatic Recognition and Localization of Saudi License Plates, a Book Chapter in book Multidisciplinary Computational Intelligence Techniques: Applications in Business, Engineering, and Medicine, Ali, Shawkat, Abbadeni, Noureddine, Batouche, Mohamed (Editors), IGI Global. 2012
• Salameh, Mohamed, Hamandi, Lama, Zantout, Rached, and Mansour, Nashat, Towards Better Statistical English-Arabic Parallel Corpus Alignment, a Chapter in book CCIS, Natural Language Processing for Arabic language book, Series: Computer Science, Springer. 2012
• Yaqzan, I. Damaj, R. Zantout, Reconfigurable Hardware Implementation of a GPS-Based Vehicle Tracking System, in Advances in Electrical Engineering and Computational Science, Sio-Iong Ao and Len Gelman (Editors), Springer Netherlands, April 2009. V 39 P 289 – 299.
• Guessoum, Ahmed and Zantout, Rached, Arabic Morphological Generation and its Impact on the Quality of Machine Translation to Arabic, Chapter in book Abdelhadi Soudi, Antal Vanden Bosch, and Guenter Neumann, Arabic Computational Morphology:  Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods,  Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol. 38, 2007, ISBN: 978-1-4020-6045-8.
• Meshkova, Z. Wang, K. Rerkrai, J. Ansari, J. Nasreddine et al., "Designing a Self-Optimization System for Cognitive Wireless Home Networks," IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, Sept. 2017,
• Lahoud, K. Khawam, S. Martin, G. Feng, Z. Liang, J. Nasreddine, "Energy Efficient Joint Scheduling and Power Control in Multi-Cell Wireless Networks," IEEE JSAC special issue on Green Communications and Networking, Sept. 2016,
• van de Beek, T. Cai, S. Grimoud, P. Mähönen, J. Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi, B. Sayrac, "How a layered REM architecture brings cognition to today's mobile networks," IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, August 2012, vol.19, nº 4, pp. 17-24,
• Cai, J. van de Beek, J. Nasreddine, M. Petrova, P. Mähönen, "A TD-LTE Prototype System with Modules for General-Purpose Cognitive Resource Management and Radio-Environmental Mapping," International Journal of Wireless Information Networks (IJWIN), Springer, 2011, vol. 18, nº3, pp. 131-145,
• Gelonch, X. Revés, V. Marojevic, J. Nasreddine, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, "A Real Time Emulator Demonstrating Advanced Resource Management Solutions," Special Issue of the Wireless Personal Communications Journal, Springer, 2010, vol. 54, nº1, pp. 123-136,
• Sallent, L. Giupponi, J. Nasreddine, R. Agustí, J. Pérez-Romero, "Spectrum and Radio Resource Management," IEEE Vehicular Technology magazine, vol.3, no.4, pp.56-64, Dec. 2008,
• Nasreddine, O. Sallent, J. Pérez-Romero, R. Agustí, "Positioning-based Framework for Secondary Spectrum Usage," Physical Communication, Elsevier, 2008, vol 1, nº 2, pp. 121-133,
• Nasreddine, O. Sallent, J. Pérez-Romero, R. Agustí, "Advanced Spectrum Management for WCDMA Systems enabling cognitive radio usage," IET Communications, Special Issue on Cognitive Spectrum Access, vol. 2, nº 6, pp. 783-793, Feb. 2008,
• Fraile, J. Nasreddine, N. Cardona and X. Lagrange, "Multiple Diffraction Shadowing Simulation Model," IEEE communication letters, vol. 11, nº4, April 2007, pp. 319-321.
• Nasreddine, L. Nuaymi and X. Lagrange, "Adaptive Power Control Algorithm with Stabilization Zone," Annals of telecommunications, vol. 61, n°9-10, Sept-Oct 2006.
• Maaz, K. khawam, S. Lahoud, J. Nasreddine, S. Tohme, Achieving Spectral and Energy Efficiencies in Smart Cities Multi-Cell Networks, Chapter in Information Innovation Technology in Smart Cities, Springer, 2017,
• Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Agustí, J. Nasreddine, M. Muck, "A decentralized RAT selection algorithm enabled by IEEE P1900.4", chapter of Advances in mobile and wireless communications – views of the 16th IST Mobile and Wireless Communication Summit, Springer, 2008.

Conference Proceedings

• N. Nasser, D. Serhal, R. Barake, M. Rammal, P. Vaudon, “A Novel Low SAR Water-Based Mobile Handset Antenna”, Sensors Networks Smart and Emerging Technologies (SENSET), Beirut Lebanon, 12-14 Sep. 2017.
• Abdallah, D. Serhal, K. Fakih, “Relaying Techniques for LTE-Advanced”, Oral Presentation, European Wireless Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 20-22 May, 2015.
• Abdallah, D. Serhal, K. Fakih, “Relaying Techniques for 4G/LTE”, Poster, 20th LAAS International Science Conference, 27-29 Mar. 2014.
• Serhal, R. Chantalat, T. Monédière, M. Hajj, B. Jecko, “Sectoral Metallic EBG Antenna for High Data Rate Wireless Terrestrial Communications with Vehicles using WiMAX Technology”, International Workshop on Antenna Technology, IWAT 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, 01-03 Mar. 2010.
• Hajj, D. Serhal, B. Jecko, “Design of simple MPRS superstrates for different applications to sectoral base station antennas”, 3rd International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics, London, UK, 01-04 Sep. 2009.
• Serhal, M. Hajj, B. Jecko, “High gain sectoral metallic EBG antenna”, The 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation EuCAP 2009, Berlin, Allemagne, 23-27 Mar. 2009.
• Hajj, E. Rodes, D. Serhal, T. Monédière, B. Jecko, “Metallic EBG superstrates for dual polarized sectoral base station antennas”, The 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation EuCAP 2009, Berlin, Allemagne, 23-27 Mar. 2009.
• Serhal, M. Hajj, R. Chantalat, B. Jecko, “A novel model of sectoral M-EBG antenna for WiMAX applications”, 2nd International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics, Pamplona, Spain, 21-26 Sep. 2008.
• Hajj, D. Serhal, E. Rodes, T. Monédière, B. Jecko, “Dual-Band Metallic FSS-EBG Sectoral Antenna”, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, San Diego, USA, 05-12 Jul. 2008.
• Serhal, M. Hajj, E. Rodes, B. Jecko, “EBG Antennas conformation for beamforming”, 4th IEEE Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference, LAPC 2008, Loughbourough, UK, pp. 121-124, 17-18 Mar. 2008.
• Hajj, E. Rodes, D. Serhal, M. Thévenot, T. Monédière, B. Jecko, “Metallic EBG sectoral antenna for a base station with horizontal polarization”, 2nd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation EuCAP2007, Edinburgh, UK, 11-16 Nov. 2007.
• Hajj, E. Rodes, D. Serhal, R. Chantalat, M. Thévenot, T. Monédière, B. Jecko, “Metallic EBG Sectoral Antenna for Base Stations”, 19th International Conference on Applied Electromagnetics and Communications ICECom 2007, Dubrovnik, Republic of Croatia, 24-26 Sep. 2007.
• Serhal, M. Hajj, B. Jecko, “Impact de l’alimentation multi-source sur les performances d’une antenne sectorielle `a bande interdite électromagnétique”, 16èmes Journées Nationales Microondes, Grenoble, France, 27-29 May 2009.
• Layal Abu Daher, Rached Zantout, Islam Elkabani, “Evolution of Hashtags on Twitter: A Case Study from Events Groups”, submitted for publication at the 5th International Symposium on Data Mining Applications (SDMA 2018), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, March 21-22, 2018.
• Atweh, Hanadi, Zekri, Ahmed, Hamandi, Lama, Zantout, Rached, “'Parallelization of Gradient-based Edge Detection Algorithm on Multicore processors”, Submitted for Publication.
• Osman, Ziad, Hamandi, Lama, Zantout, Rached, “Using Statistical Properties for Author Identification”, Submitted for Publication.
• Layal Abu Daher, Rached Zantout, Islam Elkabani, “Dynamic Evolution of Hashtags on Twitter: A Case Study from Career Opportunities Groups”, the 2017 The International Conference on New Trends in Computing Sciences (ICTCS 2017), Amman, Jordan, October 11-13, 2017.
• Khaled Sabra, Rached Zantout, Mohammad El Abed, Lama Hamandi, “Sentiment Analysis: Arabic Sentiment Lexicons”, the 2017 Sensors Networks Smart and Emerging Technologies (SENSET), Beirut, Lebanon, September 12-14, 2017.
• Samira Koleilat, Lama Hamandi, Ziad Osman, Rached Zantout, “Emotion Recognition in Arabic Speech”, the 2017 Sensors Networks Smart and Emerging Technologies (SENSET), Beirut, Lebanon, September 12-14, 2017.
• Salah Al-Shami, Ahmed Zekri, Ali El-Zaart, Rached Zantout, “On the Parallelization of Closed-set Patterns Classification for an Automatic License Plate Recognition System”, the 2017 Sensors Networks Smart and Emerging Technologies (SENSET), Beirut, Lebanon, September 12-14, 2017.
• Layal Abu Daher, Rached Zantout, Islam Elkabani, “Dynamic Evolution of Hashtags on Twitter”, Lebanese Conference on Information Systems (LCIS 2017), Beirut-New York, April 27-29, 2017.
• Auday AlDlaimi, Ahmed Zekri, Wassim Itani, Rached Zantout, “Paving the Way for Energy Efficient Cloud Data Centers: A Type-Aware Virtual Machine Placement Strategy," Proceedings of the Doctoral Symposium at the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E’17), Vancouver, Canada, April 4-7, 2017.
• Auday AlDlaimi, Ahmed Zekri, Wassim Itani, Rached Zantout, “Job Submission in the Cloud: Energy Aware Approaches", Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2016 (WCECS 2016) Vol I, pp. 190-196, October 19-21, 2016, San Francisco, USA. Best paper Award.
• Islam Elkabani, Rached Zantout, Lama Hamandi, Manal Zahreddine “Towards improving educational decisions: Automating the assessment of learning outcomes”, 2016 International Education Conference San Francisco July 31 – August 4, 2016, pp. 539 :( 1-8). Best Paper Award.
• Salwan Alwan, Mohammad Elabed, Rached Zantout “Vehicles Recognition from Partial Images”, The third international conference on advances in computational tools for engineering applications, ACTEA’16, Notre Dame University, Louaize, Lebanon, July 13-15, 2016. pp. 236-240
• Salma Ghali, Islam Elkabani, Rached Zantout “A Multilingual Interactive Workspace for Helping The Visually Impaired Learn and Practice Math”, 15th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, University of Linz, Austria, July 11-15, 2016.
• Auday AlDlaimi, Wassim Itani, Rached Zantout, Ahmed Zekri, “The Effect of Bandwidth Allocation on Power Efficiency in Cloud Data Centers", the 11th International Computer Engineering Conference, Faculty of Engineering (ICENCO’15), Cairo University, EGYPT, December 29-30, 2015.
• Islam Elkabani, Lama Hamandi, Rached Zantout, Simar Mansi “Toward Better Web Accessibility”, the 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility, Marrakech, Morocco, December 21-23, 2015.
• Islam Elkabani, Rached Zantout “A Framework for Helping the Visually Impaired Learn and Practice Math”, 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility, Marrakech, Morocco, December 21-23, 2015.
• Auday AlDlaimi, Rached Zantout, Ahmed Zekri, Wassim Itani, “Job Classification in Cloud Computing: The Classification Effects on Energy Efficiency", The 1st International Workshop on Cloud and Service Management and Simulation (CSMS), In conjunction with the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, Limassol, Cyprus, December 7-10, 2015.
• Salah Al-Shami, Ali El-Zaart, Rached Zantout, Ahmed Zekri, Khaled Almustafa, “The Recognition of the Closed-set Patterns in the Saudi License Plates”, the International Conference on Applied Research in Computer Science & Engineering (ICAR'15), Beirut, Lebanon October 8-9, 2015.
• Zantout, Rached, AlMustafa, Khaled, Hamandi, Lama, “Hybrid localization of Saudi License Plates “, The 19th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2015) Orlando, Florida, USA, July 12-15, 2015.
• Osman, Ziad, Zantout, Rached, “Using Statistical Properties to Enhance Text Categorization”, The 19th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2015) Orlando, Florida, USA, July 12-15, 2015. Best Paper Award.
• Salah Al-Shami, Ali El-Zaart, Rached Zantout, Ahmed Zekri, Khaled Almustafa, “A new feature extraction method for license plate recognition”, The Fifth International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology and its Applications (DICTAP2015), Beirut, Lebanon, April 29 – May 01, 2015.
• Suhad Yousif, Venus Samawi, Islam Elkabani, Rached Zantout “Enhancement of Arabic Text Classification Using Semantic Relation With Part Of Speech Tagger”, the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering and  Data Bases, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, January 10-12, 2015.
• AlMasri, Bassam, Elkabani, Islam, Zantout, Rached “An Interactive Workspace for helping the Visually Impaired in Learning Linear Algebra“, 14th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs - ICCHP 2014, Universite Paris 8-St. Denis, Paris, France, July 9-11, 2014.
• AlMustafa, Khaled, Zantout, Rached “Saudi License Plate Localization Using Hybrid Method“, 17th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference - MELECON 2014, Beirut, Lebanon, April 13-16, 2014.
• Hamandi, Lama, AlMustafa, Khaled, Zantout, Rached, Obeid, Hasan, “Recognition of Triangular Traffic Signs Using the Number of Peaks Algorithm “, The 2nd International conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications – ACTEA’12, Notre Dame University, Lebanon, December 12-15, 2012.
• Itani, Maher, Elkabani, Islam, Hamandi, Lama, Zantout, Rached, “Classifying sentiment in Arabic Social Networks: Naïve-Search versus Naïve-Bayes “, The 2nd International conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications – ACTEA’12, Notre Dame University, Lebanon, December 12-15, 2012.
• AlMustafa, R. Zantout, H. Obeid, Fadi Sibai “Recognizing Characters in Saudi License Plates Using Character Boundaries”, The Seventh International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology - IIT’11, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, April 25-27, 2011.
• AlMustafa, R. Zantout, H. Obeid, “Peak Position, Recognizing Characters in Saudi License Plates”, 2011 IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition for Sustainable Ubiquitous Technology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, February 19-22, 2011, pp. 186-189.
• AlMustafa, R. Zantout, H. Obeid, “Pixel Density: Recognizing Characters in Saudi License Plates”, 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, Cairo, Egypt, November 29 – December 1, 2010.
• Osman, L. Hamandi, R. Zantout, F. Sibai, “Automatic Processing of Arabic Text”, 6th International conference on Innovations in Information Technology (Innovations 09), Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, December 15-17, 2009.
• Zantout, M. Jrab, L. Hamandi, F. Sibai, “Fleet Management Automation Using the Global Positioning System”, 6th International conference on Innovations in Information Technology (Innovations 09), Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, December 15-17, 2009.
• Mirza, Z. Osman, R. Zantout, M. El-Sayed, "Error Correction of noisy block cipher using cryptanalysis and natural language processing," Third International Conference on Network and System Security, Gold Coast, Australia, 19-21 October 2009.
• Mirza, Z. Osman, R. Zantout, M. El-Sayed, "Correcting Noise in Block Ciphers," First International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks, Indore, India, 23-25 July 2009.
• Mirza, Z. Osman, R. Zantout, “A Novel Approach for Correcting Noisy AES Ciphers,” 2009 International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09), Orlando, FL, July 13-16.
• Mirza, Z. Osman, R. Zantout, "Correcting Noisy Ciphers in CBC mode," 2009 International Conference on Information and Network Technology (ICINT 2009), 10-12 July 2009, Perth, Australia.
• Osman, L. Hamandi, R. Zantout, F. Sibai, “Arabic Optical Character Recognition”, The 10th Annual UAE University Research Conference, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, 13-16 April 2009.
• Jizzini, R. Zantout, F. Sibai, “Faster Digital Image Processing Using FPGA”, The 10th Annual UAE University Research Conference, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, 13-16 April 2009.
• Yaqzan, I. Damaj, R. Zantout, “GPS-based Vehicle Tracking System-on-Chip,” The Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering, London, United Kingdom, 2 – 4 July, 2008. Vol. I, pp. 240 – 245. Nominated for Best Paper Award.
• Rached Zantout, Mazen Jrab, Lama Hamandi, Fadi Sibai, Fleet Management Automation, The 9th Annual UAEU Research Conference, 21-23 April 2008, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
• Hassan Obeid, Rached Zantout and Fadi Sibai, License Plate Localization in ALPR Systems, 4th International conference on Innovations in Information Technology (Innovations 07), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 18-20, 2007.
• Hassan Obeid and Rached Zantout, Line Processing: An Approach to ALPR Character Recognition, 2007 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Amman, Jordan, May 13-16.
• Hamandi, I. Damaj, R. Zantout, and A. Guessoum, Parallelizing Arabic Morphological Analysis: Towards Faster Arabic Natural Language Processing Systems, CIBITIC, Beirut, Lebanon, May 2006.
• Ameur Touir, Rached N. Zantout, Design and Implementation of an Automatic Road Network Map Processing System Using GPS Technology, 2003 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Tunis, Tunisia, July 14-18, 2003.
• Ziad A. Osman, Mazen Jrab, Souleiman Midani, Rached N. Zantout, Implementation of a System for Offline Tracking using GPS, Mediterranean Microwave Symposium 2003, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, May 6-8 2003.
• Hamandi, R. Zantout, and A. Guessoum, A Parser for the Arabic Language, Sixteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K., March 1-2, 2002.
• Hamandi, R. Zantout, and A. Guessoum, Design and Implementation of an Arabic Morphological Analysis System, International Conference on Research Trends in Science And Technology, Lebanese American University, Beirut & Byblos, Lebanon, March 4-6, 2002.
• Guessoum and R. Zantout, Semi-automatic Evaluation of the Grammatical Coverage of Machine Translation Systems, MT Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18 - 22 September 2001.
• Al-Sikhan, Abdullah and Zantout, Rached and Guessoum, Ahmed, Automating the evaluation of Machine Translation Systems Lexicons: Arabic Machine Translation Systems as Case Studies, 7th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications, Cairo, Egypt, February 3-6, 1999.
• Zantout, Rached N., Zheng, Yuan F. , Determining Geodesics of a Discrete Surface, 1994 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
• Zantout, Rached N., Zheng, Yuan F.  , Geodesics a Tool for Solving Material Properties Inverse Problems, 1994 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, China.
• Zantout, Rached N., Zheng, Yuan F. , Surface Parameters Extraction Using Geodesics, The First IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Cairo, Egypt.
• Maaz, K. Khawam, S. Lahoud, J. Nasreddine, and S. Tohme, Joint User Association, Power Control and Scheduling in Multi-Cell 5G Networks, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2017), San Francisco, USA, 2017,
• B. Maaz, K. Khawam, Nasreddine, S. Lahoud, S. Tohme, "Achieving Power and Energy Efficiency in Self-Organizing Networks," 14th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2017), Las Vegas, USA, Jan. 2017,
• Nasreddine, S. El Hajj Hassan, "Interference Mitigation and Traffic Adaptation Using Cell Clustering For LTE-TDD Systems," IEEE International Multidisciplinary Conference on Engineering Technology (IMCET 2016), Beirut, Lebanon, November, 2016,
• Maaz, K. Khawam, S. Lahoud, Steven Martin, J. Nasreddine, S. Tohme, " Joint scheduling and power control in multi-cell networks for inter-cell interference coordination," IEEE 11th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMOB 2015), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Oct. 2015,
• Maaz, K. Khawam, S. Tohme, S. Lahoud, J. Nasreddine, " Inter-Cell Interference Coordination based on Power Control for Self-Organized 4G Systems," in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology and its Applications (DICTAP 2015), Beirut, Lebanon, Apr-May 2015,
• Patra, J. Riihijärvi, J. Nasreddine, P. Mähönen, "Environment-Aware Localization of Femtocells for Interference Management," in Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2014), Istanbul, Turkey, Apr. 2014,
• El Kharsa, J. Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi, P. Mähönen, "Interference Mitigation based on Channel Allocation Knowledge for Dense Femtocell Scenarios," The IEEE ICC 2013 2^nd International Workshop on Small Cell Wireless Networks (SmallNets), Budapest, Hungary, June 2013,
• Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi, A. Achtzehn, P. Mähönen, "The World is Not Flat: Wireless Communications in 3D Environments," in Proceedings of the 14^th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2013), Madrid, Spain, June 2013,
• Riihijärvi, J. Nasreddine and P. Mähönen, "Influence of Spatial Statistics of Spectrum Use on the Performance of Cognitive Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWIM 2012), (Best paper award), Paphos, Cyprus Island, Oct. 2012,
• Kliks, J. Nasreddine, F. Li, A. Zalonis, N. Dimitriou, Y. Ko, "Interference Management in heterogeneous wireless networks based on context information" in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2012), Paris, France, Aug. 2012
• Zalonis, N. Dimitriou, A. Polydoros, J. Nasreddine, P. Mähönen, "Femtocell Downlink Power Control based on Radio Environment Maps," in Proceedings of the WCNC 2012,
• Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi, P. Mähönen, "Impact of Measurement Configurations on the Accuracy of Propagation Model Estimation with Applications to Dynamic Spectrum Access," in Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom 2012), Anaheim, CA, USA, Dec. 2012,
• Abbas, J. Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi, P. Mähönen, "Long-term Indoor Propagation Models for Radio Resource Management," in Proceedings of the 13^th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2012), San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2012,
• Rerkrai, J. Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi, P. Mähönen, "Enabling Run-Time Utility-Based Optimization Through Generic Interfaces in Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing and Emerging Communication Networks - IEEE GLOBECOM 2011,
• Rerkrai, J. Nasreddine, Z. Wang, J. Riihijärvi, P. Mähönen, "Design and Implementation of Utility-Based Radio Resource Optimization Using CAPRI," in Proceedings of the IWCMC 2011,
• Cai, J. van de Beek, B. Sayrac, S. Grimoud, J. Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi, P. Mähönen, "Design of Layered Radio Environment Maps for RAN Optimization in Heterogeneous LTE Systems," in Proceedings of the IEEE PIMRC 2011,
• Meshkova, J. Ansari, J. Riihijärvi, J. Nasreddine, P. Mähönen, "Estimating Transmitter Activity Patterns: an Empirical Study in the Indoor Environment," in Proceedings of the IEEE PIMRC 2011,
• Meshkova, J. Ansari, D. Denkovski, J. Riihijärvi, J. Nasreddine, M. Pavloski, L. Gavrilovska, P. Mähönen, "Experimental Spectrum Sensor Testbed for Constructing Indoor Radio Environmental Maps," in Proceedings of the IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2011) 2011 - Poster session, Aachen, Germany, April 2011,
• Nasreddine, N. Miliou, J. Riihijärvi, A. Polydoros, P. Mähönen, "Using Geolocation Information for Dynamic Spectrum Access in Cellular Networks," in Proceedings of the 6th ACM Workshop on Performance Monitoring and Measurement of Heterogeneous Wireless and Wired Networks (PM²HW²N 2011) in conjunction with MSWIM 2011, Miami, Florida, USA, 2011,
• Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi, X. Li, P. Mähönen, "Exploring Opportunistic Access Techniques Using Stochastic Models: Dynamic Spectrum Access Without Sensing," in Proceedings of the 2011 Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2011), Baltimore, MD, 2011,
• Li, J. Nasreddine, P. Mähönen, M. Petrova, "Cross-layer optimal spectrum sensing duration and scheduling in cognitive networks," invited paper in ACM CoRoNet 2011 in conj. with Mobicom 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2011,
• Riihijärvi, J. Nasreddine and P. Mähönen, "Influence of Primary Network Structure and Dynamics on Achievable Performance of Cognitive Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2011), Aachen, Germany, 2011,
• Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi, P. Mähönen, "Transmit Power Control for Secondary Use in Environments with Correlated Shadowing," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications (ICC 2011), Kyoto, Japan, 2011,
• Meshkova, Z. Wang, J. Nasreddine, D. Denkovskiy, K. Rerkrai, T. Farnham, A. de Baynast, A. Gefflaut, L. Gavrilovskay, P. Mähönen, "Using Cognitive Radio Principles for Wireless Resource Management in Home Networking," in Proceedings of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2011), pp.669-673, Las Vegas, USA, Jan. 2011,
• Nasreddine, A. Achtzehn, J. Riihijärvi, P. Mähönen, "Enabling Secondary Access through Robust Primary User Channel Assignment," in Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010), Miami, USA, Dec. 2010,
• Nasreddine, M. Petrova, P. Mähönen, T. Cai, G. P. Koudouridis, J. Johansson, "An Implementation of Cognitive Resource Management in LTE," in Proceedings of the IEEE 21st International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2010), Istanbul, Turkey, Sept. 2010,
• Meshkova, J. Nasreddine, J Riihijärvi, M. Petrova, P. Mähönen, "Improving QoE in wireless networks through cognitive network optimization," Future Networks and Mobile Summit, June 2010,
• Novillo, R. Ferrus, R. Agustí, J. Nasreddine, "Opportunistic Channel Allocation Algorithms for WLANs Based on IEEE802.11," Future Networks and Mobile Summit, June 2010,
• Riihijärvi, J. Nasreddine, P. Mähönen,, "Impact of Primary User Activity Patterns on Spatial Spectrum Reuse Opportunities," in Proceedings of the European Wireless (EW 2010), April 2010,
• Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi, P. Mähönen, "Location-based Adaptive Detection Threshold for Dynamic Spectrum Access," in Proceedings of the IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2010), Singapore, April 2010,
• Nasreddine, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, "Advanced Spectrum Management for the Downlink of WCDMA Systems using Genetic Algorithms," in Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring 2009), Barcelona, Spain, 2009,
• N. Ververidis, J. Nasreddine, P. Mähönen, "Distributed Channel Selection Protocol for Single-Hop Transmissions in Cognitive Radio Networks," Poster Paper, in Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (PE-WASUN2009), in conjunction with MSWiM 2009, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Oct. 2009,
• Nasreddine, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Agustí, "A Primary Spectrum Management Solution Facilitating Secondary Usage Exploitation," ICT-Mobile Summit, Stokholm-Sweden, 2008,
• Nasreddine, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Agustí, "Simulated Annealing-Based Advanced Spectrum Management Methodology for WCDMA Systems," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Beijing-China, May 2008,
• Gelonch, X. Revés, V. Marojevic, J. Nasreddine, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, "A Real Time Emulator Demonstrating Advanced Resource Management Solutions," in Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2007) - Jaipur (India), Dec. 2007 (Best Paper Award),
• Sallent, R. Agustí, J. Pérez-Romero, J. Nasreddine, L. Giupponi, "Integrated spectrum and radio resource management framework for joint optimisation of heterogeneous cognitive networks, " in Proceedings of the 18th meeting of the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF), Finland, 2007,
• Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Agustí, J. Nasreddine, M. Muck "Radio Access Technology Selection enabled by IEEE P1900.4," in Proceedings of the 16th IST Mobile & Wireless Comm. Summit 2007,
• Sallent, J. Pérez-Romero, X. Gelabert, J. Nasreddine, R. Agustí, F. Casadevall, A. Umbert, J. Olmos, "Gestión Integrada de Redes de Acceso Radio Celulares 2G, 2.5G y 3G," XXII Simpósium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio de 2007, URSI2007, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, Sep. 2007,
• Nasreddine, O. Sallent, J. Pérez-Romero, R. Agustí, "Novel Inter-Cell Interaction Approach for WCDMA-based Cognitive Networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Glasgow-Scotland, June 2007,
• Nasreddine, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Agustí, "Intra-RAT Spectrum Management Methodology for WCDMA Systems Encompassing Uplink and Downlink," in Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Hong Kong, March 2007,
• Fraile, J. Monserrat, N. Cardona, J. Nasreddine, "Impact of slow fading modelling on TD-CDMA system-level simulations," in Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Valencia, Spain, Sept. 2006,
• Nasreddine, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Agustí, X. Lagrange, "A Proposal on Frequency Management Methodologies for WCDMA Systems using Statistical Coupling Matrices", in Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Valencia, Spain, Sept. 2006,
• Nasreddine, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Agustí ,"Dynamic Spectrum Management Methodology for WCDMA Systems Based on Inter-Cell Interaction Approach", in Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, San Diego, USA, Sept. 2006,
• Nasreddine, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Agustí, X. Lagrange, "A Proposal on Frequency Management Methodologies for WCDMA Systems using Cell Coupling Matrices", in Proceedings of the 64th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Montreal, Canada, Sept. 2006,
• Giupponi, J. Nasreddine, R. Agustí, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, "A Two-Layer Approach for Improved Intra-operator Radio Resource Usage", in Proceedings of the 16th meeting of the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF), Work Group 6 Reconfigurability, 2006,
• Nasreddine, X. Lagrange, "On The Computation of the Maximum Capacity of TDMA-CDMA/TDD Systems", in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Helsinki, Finland, Sept. 2006,
• Pérez-Romero, J. Nasreddine, R. Agustí, X. Lagrange, "On Managing Multiple WCDMA Carriers under Varying Traffic Conditions", Workshop Trends in Radio Resource Management (2nd Edition), Barcelone, Spain, 2005,
• Nasreddine and X. Lagrange, "Performance of TD-CDMA systems during crossed slots", in Proceedings of the 60^th IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, Los Angeles, USA, 2004,
• Nasreddine and X. Lagrange, "Time Slot Allocation Based on Normalized Path Gain for TD-CDMA TDD Systems", in Proceedings of the 1st International conference on Information & Communication technologies: From theory to Application, Damascus, Syria, 2004,
• Noguet, J-P. Bouyoud, L. Zaghdoudi, D. Varreau, B. Jechoux, P. LeCorre, X. Lagrange, J. Nasreddine, "A hardware testbed for UMTS/TDD joint detection base-band receivers", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications, ISSSTA 2004,
• Nasreddine and X. Lagrange, "A Simplified Generic Optimum Power Control Scheme for CDMA Cellular Systems", in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Adaptive Wireless Networks (in conjunction with GLOBECOM 2004), Dallas, USA 2004,
• Nasreddine, L. Nuaymi and X. Lagrange, "Downlink Adaptive Power Control Algorithm for 3G Cellular CDMA Networks", in Proceedings of the 15^th IEEE international symposium on personal, indoor and mobile radio communications conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2004,
• Nasreddine, L. Nuaymi and Xavier Lagrange, "Adaptive Power Control Algorithm for 3G Cellular CDMA Networks", in Proceedings of the 59^th IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, Milan, Italy, May 2004,
• Nasreddine and X. Lagrange, "Time slot allocation based on a path gain division scheme for TD-CDMA TDD systems," in Proceedings of the 57th IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, Jeju, Korea, April 2003, pp. 880-884,
• Nasreddine and X. Lagrange, "Comparison of different slot allocation schemes in a TD-CDMA TDD system," in Proceedings of the second IEEE Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks, Paris, France, July 2002,
• Nasreddine and X. Lagrange, "Power control and slot allocation in a TD-CDMA system," in Proceedings of the 55^th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Birmingham, USA, May 2002.
• articles peer-reviewed demonstration papers in international conferences with proceedings
• Riihijärvi, J. Nasreddine, P. Mähönen, "Demonstrating Radio Environment Map Construction from Massive Data Sets," in Proceedings of the IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2012),
• Atanasovskiy, D. Denkovskiy, T. Farnham, et al., "Self-organizing Home Networking based on Cognitive Radio Technologies," in Proceedings of the IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2011), Aachen, Germany, April 2011,
• Wang, J. Ansari, V. Atanasovski, et al., "Cognitive Radio for Home Networking," in Proceedings of the IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2010), Singapore, April 2010.