Publications:
  1. Book Chapter Contributions

  1. F. Azzedin and S. Mahmood and Muhammad Akhlaq, Context-Aware E-Commerce Applications: Trust Issues and Solutions. Accepted. To appear in Managing Trust in Cyberspace, November 15, 2013

  2. F. Azzedin, M. Eltoweissy, and S. Khwaja, Overview of Service Oriented Architecture for Resource Management in P2P Systems. Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications, Dr. Nick Antonopoulos, Mr. Georgios Exarchakos, Dr. Maozhen Li, and Dr. Antonio Liotta, ed.,  2009.

    Refereed Journal Contributions

  1. A. Marwan, A. Abdulaziz, M. Ashraf, S. Mohammed, and F. Azzedin “A Scalable NAT-Based Solution to Internet Access Denial by Higher-tier ISPs”. Journal of Security and Communication Networks (SCN). May 2012.

  2. F. Azzedin “Taxonomy of Reputation Assessment in Peer-To-Peer Systems and Analysis of Their Data Retrieval”. Knowledge Engineering Review Journal (KER), Accepted. To Be Published.

  3. F. Azzedin and K. Al-Issa “Handling I/O Operations in Web Servers: Issues and Countermeasures”. The Journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 24, May 2012.

  4. M. Ashraf, A. Ahmad, A. Marwan, S. Mohammed, and F. Azzedin “Qualitative Analysis of Methods for Circumventing Malicious ISP Blocking”. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering. 2012.

  5. F. Azzedin and S. Khwaja “Towards Trustworthy Peer-To-Peer Environments : An Appraisal Analysis Appraoch”. The Journal of Next Generation Information Technology (JNIT). June, 2010.

  6. F. Azzedin “Identifying Honest Recommenders in Reputation Systems”. International Journal of Research and Reviews in Applied Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 1, April, 2010, .

  7. F. Azzedin and A. Ridha “Feedback Behavior and Its Role in Trust Assessment for Peer-to-Peer Systems”. Journal of Telecommunication Systems, Jan. 2010 DOI: 10.1007/s11235-009-9263-9.

  8. F. Azzedin “Classifying and Tracking Free Riders in Mutimedia-Based Systems”. Journal of Universal Computer Science (JUCS). Vol. 16, No. 10, 2010.

  9. F. Azzedin and A. Ridha “Recommendation Retrieval in Reputation Assessment for Peer-to-Peer Systems”. Journal of Electronics Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS), Published by Elsevier (2009), pp. 13-25. DOI: 10.1016/j.entcs.2009.07/035

  10. F. Azzedin, M. Maheswaran, and A. Mitra, ``Applying a Trust Brokering System to Resource Matchmaking in Public-Resource Grids,'' Journal of Grid Computing, Vol. 4, No. 3, Sep. 2006, pp. 247-263. Acceptance rate (25%) [pdf]

  11. F. Azzedin, M. Maheswaran, and N. Arnason ``A Synchronous Co-allocation Mechanism for Grid Computing Systems,'' Cluster Computing, The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications, Vol. 7, No. 1, Jan. 2004, pp. 39-49. [pdf]

  12. M. Migliardi, M. Maheswaran, B. Maniymaran, P. Card, and F. Azzedin, ``Mobile Interfaces to Computational, Data, and Service Grid Systems,'' ACM Mobile Computing and Communication Review, Vol. 6, No. 4, Oct. 2002, pp. 71-73. [pdf]

    Refereed Conference Contributions

  1. F. Azzedin and S. Mahmood, "A Methodology for Designing Trustworthy E-Commerce Applications", International Conference on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2013), May 2013. San Diego, California, USA.

  2. F. Azzedin, "Towards a Scalable HDFS Architecture", International Conference on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2013), May 2013. San Diego, California, USA.

  3. A. Al-Baiz, M. Abu-Amara, A. Mahmoud, M. Sqalli, and F. Azzedin, " Internet access denial by higher-tier ISPS: A NAT-based solution", 24th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), May 2011. Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

  4. M. Sqalli, S. Firdous, Z. Baig, and F. Azzedin , " An Entropy and Volume-Based Approach for Identifying Malicious Activities in Honeynet Traffic", 2011 International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW 2011), May 2011. Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

  5. M. Abu-Amara, F. Azzedin , F. Abdulhameed, A. Mahmoud, and M. Sqalli, " Dynamic peer-to-peer (P2P) solution to counter malicious higher Domain Name System (DNS) nameservers", 24th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), October 2011. Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

  6. F. Azzedin and S. Mahmoud, " Towards Designing Application Specific Trust Treated Model", The Third International Conference on Network Security and Applications (CNSA 2010), July 2010. Chennai, India.

  7. F. Azzedin, and O. Shaaban, " Impact of dishonesty and collusion on free riding in distributed multimedia systems", in the 2010 High Performance Computing and Simulation Conference (HPCS'10), June 2010, Caen, France.

  8. F. Azzedin, " Trust-based taxonomy for free riders in distributed multimedia systems", in the 2010 High Performance Computing and Simulation Conference (HPCS'10), June 2010, Caen, France.

  9. F. Azzedin, and K. Al-Issa, " A Self-Adapting Web Server Architecture: Towards Higher Performance and Better Utilization", in the 2009 High Performance Computing and Simulation Conference (HPCS'09), June 21-24, 2009, Leipzig, Germany.

  10. F. Azzedin and A. Ridha "Performance Evaluation of Recommendation Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks". ISPA 2008, December 10-12: pp. 614-619.

  11. F. Azzedin and A. Ridha, "The Effect of Behavior Change on Honesty Checking in Peer-to-Peer Systems" Sixth Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust  (PST)/ Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, October 1-3, 2008, pp.145-150.

  12. A. Ridha and F. Azzedin. Recommendation Evaluation in Reputation systems for Peer-to-Peer Networks. The 4th International Conference on Information & Communication Technology and Systems. pp. 67-75. August 5, 2008. Surabaya, Indonesia.

  13. F. Azzedin and A. Ridha, "Recommendation Retrieval in Reputation Assessment for Peer-to-Peer Systems" in the 4th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM 08). In Conjunction with IFIPTM 2008  16-17th June, 2008.

  14. F. Azzedin and A. Ridha, ``Towards an Effective Reputation Assessment Process in Peer-to-Peer Systems,'' in Proc. XXI International Conference on Computer, Electrical, and Systems Science, and Engineering, CESSE 2007, WASET, May 25-27, 2007, Vienna, Austria, pp. 118-122. [pdf]

  15. F. Azzedin and A. Rizvi ``Understanding and Measuring Trust Evolution Effectiveness in Peer-to-Peer Computing Systems,'' in Proc. XXI International Conference on Computer, Electrical, and Systems Science, and Engineering, CESSE 2007, WASET, May 25-27, 2007, Vienna, Austria, pp. 113-117. [pdf]

  16. F. Azzedin, A. Ridha, and A. Rizvi ``Fuzzy Trust for Peer-to-Peer Systems,'' in Proc. XXI International Conference on Computer, Electrical, and Systems Science, and Engineering, CESSE 2007, WASET, May 25-27, 2007, Vienna, Austria, pp. 118-122. [pdf]

    17. Emad A. El-Sebakhy, Kanaan A. Faisal, Tarek Helmy, Farag Azzedin, A. Al-Suhaim: Evaluation of Breast Cancer Tumor Classification with Unconstrained Functional Networks Classifier. AICCSA 2006: 281-287

  17. F. Azzedin and M. Maheswaran, ``Trust Brokering System and Its Application to Resource Management in Public-Resource Grids,'' 2004 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2004), April 2004, accepted, to appear. Acceptance rate (15%). [pdf]

  18. F. Azzedin and M. Maheswaran, ``Trust Modeling for Peer-to-Peer based Computing Systems,'' 12th IEEE Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW 2003)(in conjunction with IPDPS 2003), Apr. 2003. [pdf]

  19. F. Azzedin and M. Maheswaran, ``Integrating Trust into Grid Resource Management Systems,'' 2002 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2002), Aug. 2002, pp. 47-54. Acceptance rate (30%).[pdf]

  20. M. Maheswaran, B. Maniymaran, P. Card, and F. Azzedin, ``MetaGrid: A Scalable Framework for Wide-Area Service Deployment and Management,'' 16th International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications (HPCS 2002), June 2002.[pdf]

  21. M. Maheswaran, B. Maniymaran, P. Card, and F. Azzedin, ``Invisible Network: Concepts and Architecture,'' 2002 International Workshop on Invisible Computing, May 2002.

  22. F. Azzedin and M. Maheswaran, ``Evolving and Managing Trust in Grid Computing Systems,'' IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE '02), May 2002, pp. 1424-1429.[pdf]

  23. F. Azzedin and M. Maheswaran, ``Towards Trust-Aware Resource Management in Grid Computing Systems,'' First IEEE International Workshop on Security and Grid Computing, May 2002, 452-457.[pdf]

  24. P. Card, B. Maniymaran, M. Maheswaran, and F. Azzedin ``Invisible Networking: A Service Model for the Networks of the Future'' Advanced Topic Workshop on Middleware for Mobile Computing (held with IFIP/ACM Middleware 2001 Conference), Nov. 2001, appeared as a short paper/poster.

  25. F. Azzedin and M. Maheswaran, ``Synchronous Queuing: A Co-allocation Mechanism for Multimedia Enabled Grids,'' Thirteenth IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS '01), Aug. 2001, pp. 27-32.[pdf]

  26. F. Azzedin, and M. Maheswaran, “Synchronous queuing: A co-allocation mechanism for multimedia enabled Grids,” University of Manitoba Science and Technology Showcase 2000, October 2000.

    Theses Contributions

  1. F. Azzedin “Synchronous Queuing: A Co-allocation Mechanism for Multimedia Enabled Grids”. M.S., Computer Science, University of Manitoba, May 2001.[pdf]

  2. F. Azzedin “Trust Modeling and Its Applications for Peer-To-Peer Based Systems”. Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Manitoba, July 2004.[pdf]