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A Privacy-Preserving Platform for Recording COVID-19 Vaccine Passports (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Barati, M., Buchanan, W. J., Lo, O., & Rana, O. (2022). A Privacy-Preserving Platform for Recording COVID-19 Vaccine Passports. In UCC '21: Proceedings of the 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing Companion. https://doi.org/10.1145/3492323.3495626

Digital vaccination passports are being proposed by various governments internationally. Trust, scalability and security are all key challenges in implementing an online vaccine passport. Initial approaches attempt to solve this problem by using cent... Read More about A Privacy-Preserving Platform for Recording COVID-19 Vaccine Passports.

Automating GDPR Compliance Verification for Cloud-hosted Services (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Barati, M., Rana, O., & Theodorakopoulos, G. (2020). Automating GDPR Compliance Verification for Cloud-hosted Services. In 2020 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC). https://doi.org/10.1109/isncc49221.2020.9297309

Cloud-hosted business processes require access to customer data to complete a transaction, to improve a customer's on-line experience or provide useful product recommendations. However, privacy concerns associated with the use of this data have led t... Read More about Automating GDPR Compliance Verification for Cloud-hosted Services.

Privacy-Aware Cloud Ecosystems and GDPR Compliance (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Barati, M., Rana, O., Theodorakopoulos, G., & Burnap, P. (2020). Privacy-Aware Cloud Ecosystems and GDPR Compliance. In 2019 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud). https://doi.org/10.1109/ficloud.2019.00024

Understanding how cloud providers support the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) remains an imporant challenge for new providers emerging on the market. GDPR influences access to, storage, processing and tranmission of data, requiring... Read More about Privacy-Aware Cloud Ecosystems and GDPR Compliance.

Enhancing User Privacy in IoT: Integration of GDPR and Blockchain (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Barati, M., & Rana, O. (2020). Enhancing User Privacy in IoT: Integration of GDPR and Blockchain. In Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems: First International Conference, BlockSys 2019, Guangzhou, China, December 7–8, 2019, Proceedings (322-335). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2777-7_26

The development of Internet of Things (IoT) industries has raised significant questions in terms of accountability of smart devices and user privacy. The advent of European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in such industries enabled users to... Read More about Enhancing User Privacy in IoT: Integration of GDPR and Blockchain.

Developing GDPR Compliant User Data Policies for Internet of Things (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Barati, M., Petri, I., & Rana, O. F. (2019). Developing GDPR Compliant User Data Policies for Internet of Things. In UCC'19: Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (133-141). https://doi.org/10.1145/3344341.3368812

With recent adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and their use in industry, user data privacy concerns remain a major preoccupation of regulation bodies. The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enables users to control the... Read More about Developing GDPR Compliant User Data Policies for Internet of Things.

Team Formation Through Preference-Based Behavior Composition (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Barati, M., & St-Denis, R. (2017). Team Formation Through Preference-Based Behavior Composition. In Multiagent System Technologies: 15th German Conference, MATES 2017, Leipzig, Germany, August 23–26, 2017, Proceedings (54-71). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64798-2_4

A team formation problem consists in finding an effective group of experts in a social network to accomplish a job with a minimum expenditure of energy and time. This problem has been transposed into the domain of multiagent systems to form a team of... Read More about Team Formation Through Preference-Based Behavior Composition.

Behavior Composition Meets Supervisory Control (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Barati, M., & St-Denis, R. (2015). Behavior Composition Meets Supervisory Control. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). https://doi.org/10.1109/smc.2015.33

With the evolution of software engineering since the advent of structured programming until now, software engineers are faced with tremendous challenges mostly due to the development of large software programs that behave as open systems. Multi-agent... Read More about Behavior Composition Meets Supervisory Control.

Optimal control in a value-based automatic behavior composition framework (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Barati, M., & St-Denis, R. (2015). Optimal control in a value-based automatic behavior composition framework. In 2015 7th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT). https://doi.org/10.1109/icumt.2015.7382395

The behavior composition problem consists in the automatic synthesis of a controller being able to realize a desired target behavior by coordinating a set of available behaviors. Although many frameworks have been proposed for this problem, one of th... Read More about Optimal control in a value-based automatic behavior composition framework.

An architecture for semantic service discovery and realizability in cloud computing (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Barati, M., & St-Denis, R. (2015). An architecture for semantic service discovery and realizability in cloud computing. In 2015 6th International Conference on the Network of the Future (NOF). https://doi.org/10.1109/nof.2015.7333293

One of the open issues in cloud computing is service discovery. Another issue, which has received less attention by practitioners in the cloud computing industry, is service composition based on formal methods, particularly those based on automata an... Read More about An architecture for semantic service discovery and realizability in cloud computing.

A semantic-based flexible framework for automatic behavior composition (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Barati, M., & St-Denis, R. (2015). A semantic-based flexible framework for automatic behavior composition. In 2015 Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA). https://doi.org/10.1109/itecha.2015.7317380

The behavior composition problem consists in the synthesis of a controller that coordinates a set of available behaviors with the aim of realizing a desired target behavior. This problem suffers from a serious drawback because, for many instances, th... Read More about A semantic-based flexible framework for automatic behavior composition.

A new semantic role-based access control model for cloud computing (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Barati, M., Khksar Fasaei, M. S., Lotfi, S., & Rahmati, A. (2014). A new semantic role-based access control model for cloud computing. In Ninth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW 2014) (130-133)

A new semantic-supported and agent-based decentralized algorithm for resource discovery in economic grid (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Rahimzadeh, P., Barati, M., & Alizadeh, R. (2010). A new semantic-supported and agent-based decentralized algorithm for resource discovery in economic grid. In 2010 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering (ICACTE). https://doi.org/10.1109/icacte.2010.5579521

Grid computing offers geographically dispatched heterogeneous resources in order to perform complex computations. Besides, issues such as sharing, allocation and integration of resources as well as resource discovery are of high importance in grid co... Read More about A new semantic-supported and agent-based decentralized algorithm for resource discovery in economic grid.