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Distributed Systems and Multimedia Processing Lab
@ Toronto Metropolitan University

DSMP is a facility which carries out a research program on web performance improvement. The research focus is applied in nature...Read more

Publications

Edited Books and Book Chapters


  • A. Abhari ., A. G. Bruzzone, P. Kropf ,F. Longo ,A. O. Solis, L. Riley, M. Davoudpour, "Proceedings of Summer Computer Simulation Conference and Work in Progress (SCSC 2013 and WIP 2013)”, ISBN 978-1-62748-276-9, Simulation series 45(Number 11), 417, SCS and Curran associate Inc., July 2013
  • H. Rajaei, A. Abhari, Proceedings of 16th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CSN13) of SCS/ACM, San Diego, US., April 2013
  • A. Abhari A.,M. Davoudpour, "Proceedings of Education and Training Modeling & Simulation 2012 (ETMS 2012) ISBN: 978-1-62276-099-2", 14(44), 63, Curran Associates, Inc., Oct 2012
  • A. Abhari, H. E. Aarag, H. Rajaei, “Proceedings of 15th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CSN12) of SCS/ACM, Curran Associates Inc. ISBN:978-1-618-39-785-0, Vol. 44, No. 3 , Orlando, Florida, US., March 2012
  • Abdolreza Abhari, “Proceedings of Proceedings of 14th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CSN11) of SpringSim 11 in Collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM, Boston, MA, US., April 2011,SCS/ACM 2011, ISBN: 978-1-61782-837-9
  • P. Kropf, A. Abhari, M, Kaba Traor, "Proceedings of the Summer Computer Simulation Conference. (SCSC'11) of SCS/ACM, June 2011, The Hague, Netherlands. Simulation Series (SS) publications
  • A. Hosseingholizadeh and A. Abhari, “A New Compound Metric for Software Risk Assessment”, Springer's Studies in Computational Intelligence.Volume 296, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 115-131, May 2010
  • A. Abhari, S. P. Dandamudi and S. Majumdar, “ Exploiting Web Document Structure to Improve Storage Management in Proxy Caches”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Chapter 70, Vol 2552/2002, pp. 89-101, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg press 2002

Papers Published in Refereed Journals and Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings


  • R. Soltani , A. Abhari A., "Identity Matching in Social Media Platforms", 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (SPECTS), Canada, Ontario, Toronto, Canada, July 2013
  • L. Ahmed, A. Abhari, “Data Mining using ANN for finding the effects of Building Structure on Thermal Comfort Parameters”, Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAud/ACM), San Diego, California, US., April 2013
  • Shakira Banu Kaleel and A. Abhari, “Event Detection and Trending in Multiple Social Networking Sites ”, Proceedings of 16th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS13/ACM), San Diego, California, US., April 2013
  • Poornima Prabhu and A. Abhari, “Information Retrieval in Web 2.0- Role of Tagging and Folksonomies”, Proceedings of 16th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS13/ACM), San Diego, California, US., April 2013
  • Meshary AlMeshary and A. Abhari, “A Recommendation System for Twitter Users in The Same Neighborhood”, Proceedings of 16th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS13/ACM), San Diego, California, US., April 2013
  • R. Parvin,. A. Abhari, "Fuzzy Database for Heart Disease Diagnosis", In the proceedings of Medical Processes Modeling and Simulation (MPMS)of the 2012 Autumn Simulation Multi-Conference (SCS/AutumnSim'12),Oct 28-31 2012, San Diego CA, US. Oct 2012
  • N. Behboudi, F. Butt, A. Abhari, “ Automatic building design with ANNs and GA”, Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAud/ACM), Orlando, Florida, US., March 2012
  • R. Behrouz, A. . Abhari, “Improving the steady state of phase of Leach protocol via Fuzzy Logic ”, In the Proceedings of 15th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS12/ACM), pp.78-83, Orlando, Florida, US., March 2012
  • S. Talaei, A. Abhari, “Which type of Overlay Network performs better for Multimedia and Information Sharing”, In the Proceedings of 15th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS12/ACM), pp. 90-96, Orlando, Florida, US., March 2012
  • A. Abhari, T. Ghasemi, “Distributed Fuzzy Recommendation system ”, In the Proceedings of 15th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS12/ACM), pp. 96-102, Orlando, Florida, US., March 2012
  • N. Behboudi and A. Abhari, "A Weighted Energy Efficient Clustering (WEEC) for Wireless Sensor Networks", The 7th International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN'11/IEEE), Beijing, China, Dec 2011 (acceptance rate 37%)
  • F. Butt, A. Abhari, J. Tavakkoli, “An Application of High Performance Computing to Improve Linear Acoustic Simulation”, In the Proceedings of 14th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS11) SCS/ACM, Boston, MA, US., April 2011
  • A. Norouzi, A. Abhari, T. Yang, “Enhancing Broadcast Authentication in Sensor Networks”, In the Proceedings of 14th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS11) SCS/ACM, Boston, MA, US., April 2011
  • N. Behboudi and A. Abhari, “Adaptive Clustering for Energy Optimization of Variant Base Station in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim'11 Poster Track), SCS/ACM, Boston, MA, US., April 2011
  • A. Tehrani, H. Shahnasser and A. Abhari “A Proposal to Modify MASK Protocol for Anonymous Communication in MANETs”, Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim'11 Poster Track), SCS/ACM, Boston, MA, US., April 2011
  • A. Abhari, M. Soraya, “Workload Generation for YouTube”, Multimedia Tools and Applications journal,Vol 46, pp. 91-118, 2010 , Published online on June 2009
  • F. Pakzad and A. Abhari, “Characterization of User Networks in Facebook” , In the Proceedings of 13th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CSN10) of SCS/SpringSim '10 in Collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM,Orlando, FL., US., April 2010
  • M. Bashardoust and A. Abhari, “Peer-to-Peer Delivery System for Short Video Sharing”, In the Proceedings of 13th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CSN10) of SCS/SpringSim '10 in Collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM, Orlando, FL., US., April 2010
  • H. Khojasteh and A. Abhari, “Mobile Mash-up Model Based on Hybrid P2P using Ajax Technology” , Spring Simulation Multiconference (SCS/SpringSim'10 Poster Workshop in Collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM), Orlando, FL., US., April 2010
  • F. Butt and A. Abhari “Genetic Algorithms: An Approach to Optimal Web Cache Replacement”, Spring Simulation Multiconference (SCS/SpringSim'10 Poster Workshop in Collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM), Orlando, FL., US., April 2010
  • A. Norouzi, A. Abhari and T. Yang, “Enhancing Broadcast Authentication in Sensor Networks”, Spring Simulation Multiconference (SCS/SpringSim'10 Poster Workshop in Collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM), Orlando, FL., US., April 2010
  • S. Talaei and A. Abhari “Modeling the Streaming Functionality for BitTorrent”, Spring Simulation Multiconference (SCS/SpringSim'10 Poster Workshop in Collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM), Orlando, FL., US., April 2010
  • A. Mohtasham, A. Khonsari and A. Abhari “Reactive Monitoring of Aggregates in Gaussian Random Field over Wireless Sensor Networks”, Spring Simulation Multiconference (SCS/SpringSim'10 Poster Workshop in Collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM), Orlando, FL., US., April 2010
  • Hosseingholizadeh and A. Abhari ,”A Neural Network Approach for Wireless Sensor Network Power Management” In the Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Dependable Network Computing and Mobile Systems (DNCMS 2009 in conjunction with IEEE SRDS 2009) , Niagara Falls, USA, September 2009.
  • A. Hosseingholizadeh and A. Abhari, “A New Agent-Based Solution for Wireless Sensor Networks Management”, In the Proceedings of 12th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS09) of SpringSim'09 in Collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM, San Diego, US., May 2009
  • S. Bokhari, A. Ferworn and A. Abhari, “Implementation of Architectural Model for Grid Resources Discovery”, In the Proceedings of 12th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS09) of SpringSim'09 in Collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM, San Diego, US., May 2009
  • M. Bashardoust, M. Gerdzhev and A. Abhari, “Peer-to-Peer Simulation for Improving the System of Serving Multimedia on the Web”, Spring Simulation Multiconference (SCS/SpringSim'09 Poster Workshop in Collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM), San Diego, US., May 2009
  • S. Verma, S. Patel and A. Abhari, “Adaptive Web Navigation”, Spring Simulation Multiconference (SCS/SpringSim'09 Poster Workshop in Collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM ), San Diego, US., May 2009
  • K. Habibi, R. Ariaeinejad and A. Abhari, “Modeling and Simulation of Web Service Replica Choosing Algorithms”, Spring Simulation Multiconference (SCS/SpringSim'09 Poster Workshop in Collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM ), San Diego, US., May 2009
  • N. P. A. Browne, H. Mohammadi, A. Abhari and M. V. dos Santos , “An Artificial Immune System Based Sensor Network for Frost Warning and Prevention”, Spring Simulation Multiconference (SCS/SpringSim'09 Poster Workshop in Collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM ), San Diego, US., May 2009
  • K. Tirdad, F. Pakzad and A. Abhari, “Cache Replacement Solutions by Evolutionary Computing Technique”, Spring Simulation Multiconference (SCS/SpringSim'09 Poster Workshop in Collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM), San Diego, US., May 2009
  • M. Soraya, M Zamani,A. Abhari, “Modeling of Multimedia Files on the Web 2.0'”, 21th annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2008(CCECE'08): Symposium on Computer Systems and Applications, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2008
  • A. Abhari, A. Serbinski, “ HTTP Modification to Reduce Client Latency”, 21th annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2008 (CCECE'08): Symposium on Computer Systems and Applications, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2008.
  • A. Chen , A. Abhari, “An Agent-based Framework For Dynamic Web Service Selection”, Spring Simulation Multiconference (SCS/SpringSim'08 Poster Workshop in Collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM), Ottawa , Canada, April 2008
  • S. Sharieh, A. Ferwon, V. Toronov and A. Abhari,, “An ad-hoc Network based Framework for Monitoring Brain Function”, In the Proceedings of 11th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS08) of SpringSim'08 in Collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM, Ottawa , Canada, April 2008
  • R. Salmon, J. Tran and A. Abhari, “Simulating a file sharing system based on BitTorrent”, Spring Simulation Multiconference (SCS/SpringSim'08 Poster Workshop in Collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM), Ottawa , Canada, April 2008
  • S. Bokhari, Syed, A. Ferwon and A. Abhari, “Architectural Model for Grid Resources Discovery”, Spring Simulation Multiconference (SCS/SpringSim'08 Poster Workshop in Collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM), Ottawa , Canada, April 2008
  • M. Soraya, A. Serbinski and A. Abhari, “A Prefetching Server for Reducing Startup Time of Embedded Multimedia” , IEEE International Workshop on Advanced in Multimedia (AIM-07) held in conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2007 (ISM2007), Taichung, Taiwan, December 2007
  • A. Serbinski, A. Abhari, “Improving the Delivery of Multimedia Embedded in Web Pages”, ACM Multimedia, Systems and Networking Track , Augsburg, Germany, September 2007
  • A. Abhari, M. Soraya, “Workload Characterization for the Multimedia Files Embedded in the Popular Web Pages” , In Proceedings of International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA 2007), Honolulu, USA, August 2007
  • A, Serbinski, A. Abhari, “Improving the Delivery of Multimedia in HTML over HTTP on Wireless Network”, In Proceedings of Third International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (MobiMedia 2007), Nafpaktos, Greece, August 2007
  • A. Serbinski, A. Abhari, “Improving Performance of Apache Web Server”, In Proceedings of 10th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS07), Norfolk, VA., USA, April 2007
  • Abhari, S. P. Dandamudi and S. Majumdar, “Web Object-Based Storage Management in Proxy Caches”, Future Generation Computer Systems Journal, Vol 22, Issues 1-2, pp. 16-33, January 2006
  • N. A. Lewycky, B. M. Benhan, A. Abhari, "Improving the Performance of the Squid Proxy Cache", In Proceedings of 9th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS06), Huntsville, AL., USA, April 2006
  • A. Abhari, “Improving the Performance of the Storage System in Proxy Caches”, In Proceedings of Spring Simulation Multiconference (SMC 2005) Applied Telecommunication Symposium (ATS), pp. 71-79, San Diego, USA, April 2005
  • S. Majumdar, S. Nadimpali, A. Abhari, Y. Chen, S. P. Dandamudi, “ Utilizing Page Structure for Achieving High Performance”, In Proceedings of IPSI-2003 Conference-VIP Forum, Sveti Stefan, Montenegro, October 2003.
  • A. Abhari, S. P. Dandamudi and S. Majumdar, “Structural Characterization of popular Web Documents”, International Journal of Computers and Their applications (IJCA), Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 15-24, March 2002
  • A. Abhari, S. P. Dandamudi and S. Majumdar, “ Exploiting Web Document Structure to Improve Storage Management in Proxy Caches”, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HIPC), Banglore, India, Dec. 2002.
  • A. Abhari, S. P. Dandamudi and S. Majumdar, “Using Web Object to Improve the Performance of Proxy Caching”, In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Web Engineering at the World Wide Web WWW10 Conference ,pp. 82-92, Hong Kong, May 2001. http://aeims.uws.edu.au/webe2001/webe-www10-proc.pdf
  • A. Abhari, S. P. Dandamudi and S. Majumdar, “Characterization of Web objects in Popular Web Documents”, In Proceedings of ISCA 13th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 616-624, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, August 2000.

Technical Reports and other Publications


  • A. Serbinski, M. Soraya and A. Abhari, “Web Performance Improvement”, Poster presentation in Discovery 2007, Toronto, Canada, May 2007
  • A. Abhari, Web Object-based Policies for Managing Proxy caches, PhD thesis, July 2003.
  • A. Abhari, S. P. Dandamudi and S. Majumdar, “ Structural Characterization of popular Web Documents”, Technical Report TR-00-04, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, May 2000.

Talks


  • Modeling the Web Social Networking with Probablistic Methods University of California (Berkeley), Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department , BISC group, March 16, 2011 For more information on the Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC group) leading by Prof. Lotfi Zadeh please see: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zadeh/ For more information about this talk please see:http://events.berkeley.edu/mobile/sn/eecs/future/event/40407/future/event/41908
  • YouTube Workload Generation, Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS09), San Diego, US., May 2009
  • Web page-based clustering policy, RToronto Metropolitan University,Toronto, May 6th, 2005.
  • Web object based cache management , Concordia University, Montreal, 2003 (invited talk).