Hamid Reza Motahari Nezhad

Research Interests

• Business Processes, Business Intelligence, B2B Integration
• Service Oriented Computing, Web Services
• Web Services Interoperability and Adaptation
• Data and Model Management in Service-based Process Spaces 

Research Areas

In the following, the main research areas along with selected related publications are presented. For the complete list of publication and pdf files of papers visit Publication page

SOA - Interoperability of software and services

• Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Farouk Toumani, Web service interoperability specifications: explained and analyzed, IEEE Computer, Vol. 39 (5): 24-32, IEEE. May  2006
• B. Benatallah, Hamid R. Motahari-Nezhad, Service Oriented Architecture: Overview and Directions, In Advances in Software Engineering, by Alfredo Ferro and Egon Boerger (Editors), LiPari 19th International School for Computer Science Researchers Proceedings, Forthcoming.

Process Spaces

• Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Periklis Andritsos, Regis Saint-Paul, Process Spaceship: Process Views Discovery and Exploration,  VLDB 2008 (Demonstration), August 2008.
• Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Process Spaces Management Systems, 15th Workshop on HP Software University Association (HP-SUA), June 2008.
• Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, Regis Saint-Paul, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Periklis  Andritsos, Peocess Spaceship: Discovering Process views in Process Spaces, Technical Report UNSW-CSE-TR-0721, The School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia, December 2007

Business Protocol Discovery for Web services

• Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, Regis Saint-Paul, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati,  Deriving Protocol Models from Imperfect Service Conversation Logs, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), accepted for publication (to appear)
• Hamid Motahari, R.Saint-Paul, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Protocol Discovery from Imperfect Service Interaction Logs .  In International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’07) . Istanbul, Turkey. April 2007
• Hamid Motahari, R.Saint-Paul, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Julien Ponge, Farouk Toumani , ServiceMosaic: Interactive Analysis and Manipulations of Service Conversaions. In International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’07) , Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007 (Demonstration)
• Boualem Benatallah, Hamid Motahari, Regis Saint-Paul, Fabio Casati. Protocol Discovery for Web services. Procs of OVUA 2006. Nice, France. May 2006

Adaptation of Web Services Interfaces and Business Protocols

• Hamid Motahari, Boualem Benatallah, Axel Martens, Francisco Curbera, Fabio Casati, Semi-Automated Adaptation of Service Interactions, In the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), Alberta, Canada, May 2007
• Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Farouk Toumani, Julien Ponge, Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, ServiceMosaic: a platform for model-driven analysis and management of Web services, IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 10 (4):55-63, July/August 2006.
  
• Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Daniela Grigori, Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, and Farouk Toumani, "Developing Adapters for Web Services Integration," In the Procs. of The 17th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’2005) Springer-Verlag. LNCS 3520, pp. 415 – 429. Porto, Portugal. June, 2005. (Acceptance Ratio: 13%)

Business Protocol Analysis and Management

• Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Farouk Toumani, Julien Ponge, Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, ServiceMosaic: a platform for model-driven analysis and management of Web services, IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 10 (4):55-63, July/August 2006.
• Hamid Motahari, R.Saint-Paul, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Julien Ponge, Farouk Toumani , ServiceMosaic: Interactive Analysis and Manipulations of Service Conversaions. In International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’07) , Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007 (Demonstration)
  

Links

• Bibliography on Software and Service Interoperability, and Process Spaces Management
• I have prepared a bibliography of related research in the above areas. Please visit and let me have your feedbacks!
• ServiceMosaic Project Website