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• Staff Members:
• RG Director:   Dr. Ashraf Shahin   
  1. Dr. Adel Assalem
  2. Dr. Mostafa Elsayed Ahmed Ibrahim
  3. Dr. Yessine daadaa
  4. Dr. Alaa Eldeen Sayed Ahmed
  Hajer Almogahed (MSc Student)
  Sarah AlKudair (MSc Student)
  Nouf Ahmad (MSc Student)
  Khould Alshemery (MSc Student)
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• Research Group Interests:
• Distributed computing, cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and Wireless sensor networks.
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• Research Group Activities/Projects:
• 1- “Energy aware approaches for cloud computing environments” Al-Imam University Research Unit,  Project in progress. Period: 12 months, from 1-11-2016 to 1-11-2017. Project No: 370908
  2- “Survivable Virtual Network Embedding Approach Based on Collective Neurodynamic Optimization” Al-Imam University Research Unit,  Project in progress. Period: 12 months, from 1-11-2016 to 1-11-2017.
  3- “Auto-Scaling Technique for Mobile Cloud Learning Applications”, Al-Imam University Research Unit, Project in progress. Period: 12 months.
  

• Research Group Publications:
• 1- Mostafa Ibrahim and Alaa Ahmed. The effects of MAC protocols on localization in Wireless Sensor Network. Int Journal Computer Science & Network Security-Ijcsns, ISSN: 1738-7906, 16(8):49-54, Aug. 2016
  2- Ashraf A. Shahin, “Enhancing Elasticity of SaaS Applications Using Queuing Theory” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Vol.8, NO 1, January 2017, pg. 279-285, ISSN 2158-107X E-ISSN 2156-5570. Published by The Science and Information (SAI) Organization, United Kingdom.  DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080136
  3- Ashraf A. Shahin, “Using Multiple Seasonal Holt-Winters Exponential Smoothing to Predict Cloud Resource Provisioning” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Vol.7, NO 11, November 2016, pg. 91-96, ISSN 2158-107X E-ISSN 2156-5570. Published by The Science and Information (SAI) Organization, United Kingdom.  DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2016.071113
  4- Ashraf A. Shahin, “Automatic Cloud Resource Scaling Algorithm Based on Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Vol.8, NO 12, Dec 2016, , ISSN 2158-107X E-ISSN 2156-5570. Published by The Science and Information (SAI) Organization, United Kingdom.  DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2016.071236
  5- Sara. Alkhudair, Alaa E. S. Ahmed, “Modeling the E€ect Of Data Aggregation On The Performance of Wireless Sensor Network Using Colored Petri Nets” . International conference of internet of things and cloud computing, ACM, 2017.
  6- Kholoud Alshammari, Alaa E. S. Ahmed, " An efficient approach for detecting nodes failures in wireless sensor network based on clustering", The International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), IEEE 2017.
  
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