Selected Publications

Awards

 

· IBM Faculty Award (2008)

· IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Award (2007). Role: Principal Investigator

 

Industrial Patent

 

L. Ismail with G. Monaton and S. McKinty. "Using DHCP to Parameterize a Redundant Network". Patent Deposit, Sun Microsystems 2004.

 

Professional Journals

 

· L. Ismail. “A Secure Mobile Agents Platform. To appear in Journal of Communications, issue 2, 2008.

· G. Bernard and L. Ismail. « Mobile Agents Contribution to Distributed Systems ». Journal Technique et Science Informatiques (TSI'2002) (written in French)

· D. Hagimont and  L. Ismail. « Mobile Agents and Client Server Architectures: Performance Evaluation  and Comparison ». Journal Technique et Science Informatiques (TSI'2000), vol.19, no.9, 2000) (written in French)

 

International Conferences

 

· Leila Ismail. “Implementation and Performance of a Dynamic-Content Cache for a Backend Database Server”.  IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering 2008 (SE2008). http://www.actapress.com/PaperInfo.aspx?PaperID=32479&reason=500

· Leila Ismail. "Evaluation of Protection Mechanisms for a Mobile Agent System on top of a Java Environment". pp. 663-668,  6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2007),  Australia, 2007

· Leila Ismail, Mohamed Adel Serhani, Said Elnaffar, Yacine Atif. “Semantic Grid-Based Elearning Architecture”. IEEE International Conference on Semantic, Knowledge and Grid (SKG 2007), Xi'an, Shan Xi, China, October, 2007. ISBN:  978-0-7695-3007-9. pp. 511-514 http://www.ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?isnumber=4438493&arnumber=4438607&count=161&index=113

· Leila Ismail. "Authentication Mechanisms for Mobile Agents". IEEE International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Vienna, Austria, April 2007 (IEEE ARES 2007). ISBN: 0-7695-2775-2. On pages:246-253. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?isnumber=4159774&arnumber=4159810&count=162&index=35

· Leila Ismail. "Dynamic Resource Allocation Mechanisms for Grid Computing Environment". The IEEE International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructure for the Development of Networks and Communities (IEEE TridentCom May 2007), USA, Florida/Orlando. ISBN: 978-1-4244-0739-2. http://www.ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4444737&isnumber=4444646

· Leila Ismail. "Implementation of a Dynamic Cache for Database Scalability". 8th Annual United Arab Emirates University Research Conference. 23-25 April, 2007, Al-Ain, UAE, vol.3, pp. 44-49

· Leila Ismail. "Connection Migration Mechanisms in a Cluster Environment".  The IEEE International Conference in Computing in the Global Information Technology, Romania, Bucharest, August 2006 (IEEE ICCGI 2006). ISBN: 0-7695-2690-X. INSPEC Accession Number: 9364926. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ICCGI.2006.17. On page(s): 35-35. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4124054L. Ismail. "Connection Migration Mechanisms in a Cluster Environment". International Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology (2006)

· L. Ismail, D. Hagimont. « A Performance Evaluation of the Mobile Agent Paradigm ». Proceedings of the International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA’99), November 1-5, 1999. pp. 306-313. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ismail99performance.html.

· L. Ismail. Technical Report for the  European research project C3DS in distributed system managed at INRIA, 1999

· L. Ismail, D. Hagimont. « Specializaton of Servers using Mobile Agents ». Colloque international à NOuvelles TEchnologies de la Repartition (NOTERE'98), September,  1998, Monteal, Quebec, Canada (written in French)

· D. Hagimont, L. Ismail. « Access Control for a Mobile Agents System ». Colloque international, les NOuvelles TEchnologies de la Repartition (NOTERE'97), October,  1997, Pau, France. Published also in the "Revue Au Fil d'Unix" by CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales), number 48, March/Avril 1998 (written in French)

· C. Jensen, L. Ismail (Eds. And organizers). « Joint Workshop Proceedings of the ECOOP Workshop on Distributed Object Security and the 4th Workshop on Mobile Object Systems (Secure Internet Mobile Computations) ». The 12th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Brussels, Belgium, July 1998. INRIA, Rocquencourt, 1998

· D. Hagimont, L. Ismail, J. Mossière. « Access Control Using Hidden Software Capabilities ». Poster Session for the 16^th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP’97), October 5-8, 1997. Poster presentation and technical demonstration by L. Ismail

· D. Hagimont, L. Ismail. « A Protection Scheme for Mobile Agents on Java ». 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM’97), Budapest, Hungary , September 1997. Pp. 215-222. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/article/hagimont97protection.html

· C. Jensen, L. Ismail. "Capability Based Protection for Hosting Mobile Code". In European Research Seminar in Advanced Distributed Systems, ERSADS'97, pp. 234-240, Zinal, Switzerland, March, 1997.