Recent Publications

2008 / 2007 / 2006 / 2005 / 2004 / 2003 / 2002 / 2001 / 2000 / 1999

2008

Mobile and Pervasive Computing

  • A. Helal, J. King, H. Zabadani and Y Kaddourah, "The Gator Tech Smart House: An Assistive Environment for Successful Aging," Book Chapter in "Advanced Intelligent Environments," H. Hagrass, Editor, Springer Verlag. To appear 2008.
  • H. Yang, R. Bose, A. Helal, J. Xia, and C. Chang, "Fault-resilient Pervasive Service Composition", Book Chapter in "Advanced Intelligent Environments," H. Hagrass, Editor, Springer Verlag. To appear 2008.
  • A. Abukmail and A. Helal, "A near-Zero Run-time Energy Overhead within a Computation Outsourcing Framework for Energy Management," Submitted to the 5th International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG), to be held April 7, 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
  • H. Yang and A. Helal, "Safety Enhancing Mechanisms for Pervasive Computing Systems in Intelligent Environment", submitted to the Middleware Support for Pervasive Computing Workshop, to be held in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2008, Hong Kong, March 2008. (pdf)

2007

Mobile and Pervasive Computing

  • H. Kim, H. Yang, R. Bose and A. Helal, "Enhancing the Sentience of URC using Atlas Service-Oriented Architecture," Proceedings of 8th International Workshop on Human-friendly Welfare Robotic Systems (HWRS 2007), Korea, October 21-23, 2007.(pdf)
  • J. Xia, C. Chang, T. Kim, H. Yang, R. Bose and A. Helal, "Fault-resilient Ubiquitous Service Composition," Proceedings of 3rd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'07), Ulm University, Germany, Sepetember 24-25, 2007. (pdf)
  • J. Tian and A. Helal, "Speed Adaptive MIP over Wireless LAN," Accepted for publication in the Wiley & Sons Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. To appear 2007. (pdf)
  • C. Lee. S. Ko, S. Lee, W. Lee and A. Helal, "Context-Aware Service Composition for Mobile Network Environments," Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), Hong Kong, July 11-13, 2007. (pdf)
  • H. El-Zabadani, A. Helal and H Yang, “A Mobile Sensor Platform Approach to Sensing and Mapping Pervasive Spaces and their Contents,” Proceedings of the International Conference on New Technologies of Distributed Systems, Morocco, Marrakesh, June 4-8, 2007. (pdf)
  • H. Yang, J. King, A. Helal and E. Jansen, “A Context-Driven Programming Model for Pervasive Spaces,” Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics (ICOST), Nara, Japan, 21-23 June, 2007. (pdf)
  • W. Mann and S. Helal, "Technology and Chronic Conditions in Later Years: Reasons for New Hope," in Hans-Werner Wahl, Clemens Tesch-Romer and Andreas Hoff, Editors, "New Dynamics in Old Age - Individual, Environmental and Societal Perspectives,", Baywood Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN: 0-89503-322-4, 2007.
  • A. Helal, M. Mokhtari and B. Abdulrazak, “The Engineering Handbook on Smart Technology for Aging, Disability and Independence,” John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0471711551, Computer Engineering Series, Copyright 2007.
  • J. Zhang, S. Jones, J. Wang and A. Helal, “DPQ: Using A Distributed Priority Queue to Improve Ad hoc TCP Performance,” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations ITNG 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, April 2-4, 2007.
  • R. Bose, A. Helal, V. Sivakumar and S. Lim, "Virtual Sensors for Service Oriented Intelligent Environments,"  Proceedings of the Third IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Technology, Phuket, Thailand, April 2-4, 2007. (pdf)
  • A. Helal, H. Yang, J. King and R. Bose, "Atlas - Architecture for Sensor Network Based Intelligent Environments," Submitted to the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. Submitted April 2007. (pdf)
  • M. Alturkistany, A. Helal and M. Scmalz, "Adaptive Wireless Thin-client Model
    for Mobile Computing," Submitted to the International Journal on Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing, Wiley & Sons, Submitted February 2007. (pdf)
  • J. Zhang and A. Helal, " Mobile Network Adaptation in the UbiData Mobile File System", Accepted for publication in the International Journal of Computers and Applications. Accepted February 2007.
  • A. Abukmail and A. Helal, "Energy Management for Mobile Devices through Computation Outsourcing within Pervasive Smart Spaces," Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Submitted January 2007. (pdf)

2006

Mobile and Pervasive Computing

  • J. King, R. Bose, H. Yang, S. Pickles and A. Helal, “Atlas – A Service-Oriented Sensor Platform,” Proceedings of the first IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications (SenseApp 2006). Tampa, Florida, November 2006. (pdf)
  • A. Helal and B. Abdulrazak, “TeCaRob: Tele-Care using Telepresence and Robotic Technology for Assisting People with Special Needs,” International Journal of Human-friendly Welfare Robotic Systems, Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2006. (pdf)
  • H. Yang, S. Lim, J. King and A. Helal, “Open Issues in Nomadic Pervasive Computing,” Proceedings of UbiSys 2006 – the Workshop on System Support for Ubiquitous Computing, in conjunction with the 8th Annual Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2006), Orange County California, September 2006. (pdf)
  • C. Lee, S. Yoon, E. Kim and A. Helal, “An Efficient Service Propagation Scheme for Large-Scale MANETs,” Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing (MPAC 2006), In connection with ACM/IFIP/USENIX 7th International Middleware Conference, Melbourne, Australia, November 2006. (pdf)
  • R. Bose, J. King, H. El-zabadani, S. Pickles, and A. Helal, "Building Plug-and-Play Smart Homes Using the Atlas Platform," Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematic (ICOST), Belfast, the Northern Islands, June 2006. (pdf)
  • W. Mann and A. Helal, Editors “Promoting Independence for Older Persons with Disabilities,” Assistive Technology Research Series, IOS Press, ISBN 1-58603-587-8, Copyright 2006.
  • S. Lim, and A. Helal, “Encapsulation and Entity-based Approach of Interconnection between Sensor Platform and Middleware of Pervasive Computing,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems (UCS 2006), to be held in Coex, Seoul, Korea, October 11-13, 2006. (pdf)
  • C. Lee, A. Helal, and W. Lee “Universal Interactions with Smart Spaces,” the Standards, Tools and Emerging Technologies Department, IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, Sumi Helal, Editor, Volume 5, Number 1, January-March 2006.
  • C. Lee, A. Helal and D. Nordstedt, "μJini Proxy Architecture for Impromptu Mobile Service Access," Proceedings of the Workshop on Next Generation Service Platforms for Future Mobile Systems (SPMS 2006). In conjunction with the IEEE/IPSJ International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), Phoenix, Arizona, January 2006. (pdf)
  • H. Yang, E. Jansen and A. Helal, "A Comparison of Two Programming Models for Pervasive Computing," Proceedings of the Workshop on Ubiquitous Networking and Enablers to Context Aware Services. In conjunction with the IEEE/IPSJ International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), Phoenix, Arizona, January 2006. (pdf)
  • J. Zhang and A. Helal, “UbiNet: A Generic and Ubiquitous Service Provider Framework,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2006), Tahiti, French Polynesia, October 2006. (pdf)
  • J. Zhang and A. Helal, “Video Diffusion: A Routing Failure Resilient, Multi-Path Mechanism to Improve Wireless Video Transport,” Proceedings of the European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery (EuMob), Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, September 2006. (pdf)
  • J. Tian and A. Helal, "Performance of MIP over WLAN in Rapid Moving Environments," Proceedings of the 4th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Dubai/Sharjah, UAE, March 8-11, 2006. (pdf)
  • H. El-Zabadani, A. Helal and M. Schmaltz, "PerVision: An integrated Pervasive Computing/Computer Vision Approach to Tracking Objects in a Self-Sensing Space," Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematic (ICOST), Belfast, the Northern Islands, June 2006. (pdf)
  • A. Abukmail and A. Helal, "A Pervasive Internet Approach to Fine-Grain Power-Aware Computing," Proceedings of the IEEE/IPSJ International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), Phoenix, Arizona, January 2006. (pdf)

Internet Computing

  • Erwin Jansen, Hen-I Yang and Sumi Helal, "Automated Verification of Proper Choreography Implementation," Proceedings of the IEEE/IPSJ International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), Phoenix, Arizona, January 2006. ( pdf)
  • J. Meng, S. Su, A. Helal, and H. Lam, “DynaFlow: A Dynamic Inter-Organizational Workflow,” The International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM). Vol. 1, No.2, pp. 101 – 115, 2006. (pdf)

2005

Mobile and Pervasive Computing

  • S. Willis and A. Helal, "RFID Information Grid and Wearable Computing Solution to the Problem of Wayfinding for the Blind User in a Campus Environment" Proceedings of the ninth annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Osaka, Japan, October 2005. (pdf). More detailed version of the paper (pdf).
  • A. Helal and C. Lee, "Pervasive Computing", in The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing, Munindar Snigh, Editor, Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer and Information Science Series, CRC Press, 2005, Pp37-1 to 37-14, ISBN 1-58488-381-2. Order the Book from Amazon.Com
  • A. Helal, W. Mann and C. Lee, "Assistive Environments for Individuals with Special Needs", D. Cook and S. Das, Editors, Smart Environments, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2005, Pp 361-383. ISBN 0-471-54448-5. Order the Book from Amazon.Com
  • A. Helal, S. Balakrishnan, M. Dunham and Y. Liu, "A Survey on Mobile Transaction Models", Imad Mahgoub, Editor, Handbook of Mobile Computing, CRC Press. January 2005, Pp839-874, ISBN 0-8493-1971-4. Order the Book from Amazon.Com
  • A. Abukmail and A. Helal, "Power Awareness and Management Techniques", Imad Mahgoub, Editor, Handbook of Mobile Computing, CRC Press. January 2005, Pp731-743, ISBN 0-8493-1971-4. Order the Book from Amazon.Com
  • B. Mann and A. Helal, "Technology and Chronic Conditions in Later Years: Reasons for New Hope", Book Chapter in Baywood Series - Aging and Society, Edited by Hans Werner Wahl, 2004.
  • Sumi Helal, "Programming Pervasive Spaces," the Standards and Emerging Technologies Department, IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine, Sumi Helal, Dept. Editor, Volume 4, Number 1, January-March 2005. (pdf)
  • A. Helal, W. Mann, H. Elzabadani, J. King, Y. Kaddourah and E. Jansen, "Gator Tech Smart House: A Programmable Pervasive Space", IEEE Computer magazine, March 2005, pp 64-74. (pdf)
  • J. Tian, A. Helal, "Rapid Mobility of MIP over WLAN," International Conference on Computer Networks and Mobile Computing (ICCNMC'05), Zhangjiajie, China, Aug 2-4, 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag GmbH, ISSN: 0302-9743, ISBN: 3-540-28102-9, Volume 3619/2005. (pdf)
  • Y. Kaddourah, J. King and A. Helal, “Cost-Precision Tradeoffs in Unencumbered Floor-Based Indoor Location Tracking,?Proceedings of the third International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematic (ICOST), Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, July 2005. (pdf)
  • H. El-Zabadani, A. Helal, B. Abudlrazak, and Erwin Jansen, “Self-Sensing Spaces: Smart Plugs for Smart Environments,?Proceedings of the third International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematic (ICOST), Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, July 2005. (pdf)
  • M. Ali, W. Aref, R. Bose, A. Elmagarmid, A. Helal, I. Kamel, M. Mokbel, "NILE-PDT: A Phenomenon Detection and Tracking Framework for Data Stream Management Systems", Proceedings of the Very Large Databases Conference (VLDB), Trondheim, Norway August 2005. (pdf)

Internet Computing

  • A. Helal, J. Lu and E. Jansen, “A Web Services Based Personal Information Integration Framework,?The International Journal of Web Services Research, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2005. (pdf)

2004

Mobile and Pervasive Computing

  • A. Helal and J. Hammer, "UbiData: Requirements and Architecture for Ubiquitous Data Access," SIGMOD RECORD, Vol 33, No. 4, December 2004. (pdf)
  • D. Kochhar and A. Helal, "The ProxyGator: Server-side Wireless Toolkit", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information and Computer Science (ICICS), November 2004, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. (pdf)
  • E. Hernandez and A. Helal, "Predictive Mobile IP for Rapid Mobility", Proceedings of the fourth IEEE Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLN), November 2004, Tampa, Florida. (pdf)
  • T. Divekar, and A. Helal, "PEMOCO: An Infrastructure for Personal Mobile Commerce on Java Enabled Smart Phones," Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Technology. US Virgin Islands, November 2004. (pdf)
  • J. Russo, A. Sukojo, S. Helal, R. Davenport, and W. Mann, "SmartWave Intelligent Meal Preparation System to Help Older People Live Independently," Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Smart homes and health Telematic (ICOST2004), September 2004, Singapore. (pdf)
  • M. Al-Turkistany and A. Helal, "Intelligent Adaptation Framework for Wireless Thin-Client Environments," Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies: CCCT'04, August, 2004, Austin, Texas. (pdf)
  • L. Ran, A. Helal and S. Moore, "Drishti: An Integrated Indoor/Outdoor Blind Navigation System and Service", Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Pervasive Computing Conference, Orlando, Florida, March 2004. (pdf)
  • W. Mann, A. Helal, R. Davenport, M. Justiss, M. Tomita and B. Kemp, “Use of Cell Phones by Elders with Impairments: Overall Appraisal, Satisfaction and Suggestions,?Journal on Technology and Disability, IOS Press, 16(2004), pp49-57.

Internet Computing

  • W. Gu and A. Helal, "An XML Based Solution to Delivering Adaptive Web Content for Mobile Clients", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS), San Jose, CA, July 2004. (pdf)
  • W. Gu and A. Helal, "x-ICP: A Mobile Web Caching Protocol", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS), San Jose, CA, July 2004. (pdf)
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2003

Mobile and Pervasive Computing

  • W. Mann, A. Helal, "Smart Technology: A Bright Future for Independent Living", The Society for Certified Senior Advisors Journal, Volume 21, December 2003.
  • S. Su, J. Meng, R. Krishnavasen, S. DegWekar, and A. Helal, "Dynamic Inter-Enterprise Workflow Management in a Constraint-Based E-Service Infrastructure", Electronic Commerce Research, 3: 9-24 (2003), Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • C. Lee, A. Helal, N. Desai, V. Verma, and B. Arslan, "Konark: A System and Protocols for Device Independent, Peer-to-Peer Discovery and Delivery of Mobile Services", the IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man and Cybernatics, Volume 33, Number 6, November 2003, pp682-696.
  • J. Jing, A. Helal, and A. Elmagarmid, "Mobile Client Cache Invalidation Algorithms," Accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Nov-Dec 2003, Volume 15, Number 6, 26pp.
  • J. Meng, R. Krithivasan, S. Su and A. Helal, "Flexibility and Dynamism in E-Service based Workflow Management Systems", Kluwer Electronic Commerce Research Journal (special issue on "Business Process Integration and E-Commerce Infrastructure). January - April 2003, Volume 3, Issue 1-2, pp. 9-24.
  • A. Helal, L. Sampath, K. Birkett, and J. Hammer, "Adaptive Delivery of Video Data over Wireless and Mobile Environments", International Journal on Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing. John Wiley and Son. Volume 3. 23-36pp.
  • C. Lee, D. Nordstedt and A. Helal, "OSGi for Pervasive Computing,"the Standards, Tools and Best Practice Department, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Sumi Helal, Dept. Editor, Volume 2, Number 3, Sept 2003.
  • C. Lee and A. Helal, "A Multi-tier Ubiquitous Service Discovery Protocol for Mobile Clients", Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2003), Montréal, Canada, July 2003.
  • A. Helal, C. Giraldo, Y. Kaddourah, C. Lee, H. Zabadani, and W. Mann, "Smart Phone Based Cognitive Assistant", Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing for Pervasive Healthcare Applications (UbiHealth), Seattle, Washington, Springer Verlag Publisher. November 2003.
  • A. Helal and W. Mann, "Integrating Smart Phones with Smart Spaces for Elder Care", The High Technology Track, Abstract in Proceedings of the ASA International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence, Washington DC. Dec 2003.
  • A. Helal, C. Lee, C. Giraldo, Y. Kaddoura, H. Zabadani, R. Davenport. W. Mann, "Assistive Environments for Successful Aging", Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Smart homes and health Telematics (ICOST). Paris, France, September 2003. pp 104-112.
  • C. Manescu and A. Helal, "Fast 2D Wavelet Transform Through a Novel Twisted-Packed Technique", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, Miami, Florida, September 2003.
  • C. Lee and A. Helal, "A Multi-tier Ubiquitous Service Discovery Protocol for Mobile Clients", In Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2003), Montreal, Canada, July 2003.
  • P. Pradhan and A. Helal, "An Efficient Algorithm for Maintaining Consistent Group Membership in Ad Hoc Networks," Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC'03), In conjunction with ICDCS'03, Providence, Rhode Island, May 2003.
  • A. Helal, N. Desai, V. Verma, and C. Lee "Konark:A Service Discovery and Delivery Protocol for Ad-Hoc Networks", Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conference (WCNC 2002), New Orleans, LA, March 2003.
  • Sumi Helal, Bryon Winkler, Choonhwa Lee, Youssef Kaddourah, Lisa Ran, Carlos Giraldo and William Mann, "Enabling Location-Aware Pervasive Computing Applications for the Elderly" Proceedings of the First IEEE Pervasive Computing Conference to be held June 2003 in Fort Worth, Texas. (pdf)
  • Yanli Xia and Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal, "A Dynamic Data/Currency Protocol for Mobile Database Design and Reconfiguration," Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Melbourne, Florida, March 2003. (pdf)
  • C. Lee and A. Helal, " " A Multi-tier Ubiquitous Service Discovery Protocol for Mobile Clients," Submitted, to the First ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems and Applications (Mobisys), May 2003. (pdf)
  • Pushkar Pradhan and Sumi Helal, "An Efficient Algorithm for Maintaining Consistent Group Membership in Ad Hoc Networks," Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC'03), In conjunction with ICDCS'03, to be held in Providence, Rhode Island, May 2003. (pdf)
  • Sumi Helal, Nitin Desai, Varum Verma and Choonhwa Lee, "Konark – A Service Discovery and Delivery Protocol for Ad-hoc Networks," Proceedings of the Third IEEE Conference on Wireless Communication Networks (WCNC), New Orleans, March 2003. (pdf)
  • Nitin Desai, Varun Verma and Sumi Helal, "Infrastructure for Peer-to-Peer Applications in Ad-Hoc Networks," Submitted to the 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '03), to be held in Berkeley, CA, February 2003. (pdf)
  • Mohamed Al-Turkistany and Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal, "Intelligent Adaptation Framwork for Wireless Thin-Client Environments," Submitted to the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications - ISCC'2003, to be held in KEMER - ANTALYA, TURKEY, June/July 2003. (pdf)
  • Jinsuo Zhang, Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal and Joachim Hammer, "UbiData: Ubiquitous Mobile File Service," Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Melbourne, Florida, March 2003. (pdf)
  • A. Helal, S. Balakrishnan, M. Dunham and R. Li , "A Survey on Mobile Transaction Models," Book Chapter in Mobile and Wireless Computing and Communication, Chapman Hall/CRC (Azzedine Boukerche , Editor), Submitted 2002. (pdf)
  • M. Chinta and Sumi Helal "ILC-TCP: An Interlayer Collaboration Protocol for TCP Performance Improvement in Mobile and Wireless Environments," Proceedings of the Third IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2003. (pdf)
  • S. Parvatham, A. Helal and C. Lee, "A Bluetooth LAN Access Profile Simulator,"to be submitted
  • Sangeetha Shekar, Prashant Nair and Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal, "iGrocer- A Ubiquitous and Pervasive Smart Grocery Shopping System," Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Melbourne, Florida, March 2003. (pdf)
  • C. Lee and A. Helal, "Context Attributes: An Approach to Enable Context-awareness for Service Discovery," Submitted to the Third IEEE/IPSJ Symposium on Applications and the Intrnet, to be held in Orlando, Florida, January 2003. (pdf)

Internet Computing

  • W. Gu and A. Helal, "Extended Internet Caching Protocol: A Foundation for Building Ubiquitous Web Caching," Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Melbourne, Florida, March 2003.
  • Stanley Y. W. Su, Jie Meng, Raja Krithivasan, Seema Degwekar and Sumi Helal, "Dynamic Inter-enterprise Workflow Management in a Constraint-based E-Service Infrastructure," Kluwer Electronic Commerce Research Journal. Special Issue on Business Process Integration and E-Commerce Infrastructure. Vol. 3:9-24 (2003). (pdf)

2002

Mobile and Pervasive Computing

  • M. Lee and A. Helal, "HiCoMo: High Commit Mobile Transactions," The International Journal of Parallel and Distributed Database Systems. Kluwer Academic Publisher. Volume 11, No. 1, pp: 73-92, January 2002. (pdf)
  • A. Helal, S. Shah and C. Lee "Mobility Benchmarking In Ad-Hoc Networks," The IPSJ Journal, Vol. 43, No.11, June 2002 .
  • A. Helal, L. Sampath, K. Birkett, and J. Hammer, "Adaptive Delivery of Video Data over Wireless and Mobile Environments," Accepted for publications in the John Wiley & Sons International Journal on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. (pdf)
  • Sumi Helal, "Service Discovery Standards", the Standards, Tools and Best Practice Department, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Sumi Helal, Dept. Editor, Volume 1, Number 3, Sept 2002.
  • Sumi Helal, "Pervasive Java -Part II", the Standards, Tools and Best Practice Department, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Sumi Helal, Dept. Editor, Volume 1, Number 2, June 2002.
  • Sumi Helal, "Pervasive Java -Part I", the Standards, Tools and Best Practice Department, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Sumi Helal, Dept. Editor, Volume 1, Number 1, March 2002. (pdf)
  • M. Lanham, A. Kang, J. Hammer and A. Helal , "Format-Independent Change Detection and Propagation in Support of Mobile Computing," Proceedings of the XVII Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD), Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, October, 2002. (pdf)
  • C. Giraldo, S. Helal, W. Mann, "mPCA – A Mobile Patient Care-Giving Assistant for Alzheimer Patients" First International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing for Cognitive Aids (UbiCog’02). In conjunction with The Fourth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2002).,Göteborg, Sweden, October 2002. (pdf)
  • W. Mann ands A. Helal, "Smart Phones for the Elders: Boosting the Intelligence of Smart Homes," Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Automation as Caregiver: The Role of Intelligent Technology in Elder Care, Edmonton, Canada, July 2002. (pdf)
  • J. Jing, A. Helal, and A. Elmagarmid, "Mobile Client Cache Invalidation Algorithms," To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering .
  • A. Khushraj, A. Helal and J. Zhang, "InCoda: Incremental Hoarding and Reintegration in Mobile Environments," Proceedings of the IEEE/IPSJ International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), February 2002, Nara, Japan. (pdf)
  • E. Hernandez and Sumi Helal, "RAMON: Rapid Mobility Network Emulator," Proceedings of the 27th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Tampa, Florida, November 2002. (pdf)
  • S. Shah, E. Hernandez, and A. Helal, "CAD-HOC: A CAD Like Tool for Generating Mobility Benchmarks in Ad-Hoc Networks," Proceedings of the second IEEE/IPSJ Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT'02) Jan/Feb 2002, in Nara, Japan. (pdf)
  • C. Lee, A. Helal, "Protocols for Service Discovery in Dynamic and Mobile Networks,"The International Journal of Computer Res earch, Special issue on Wireless Systems and Mobile Computing, Vol. 11, No. 1, September 2002. (pdf)

Internet Computing

  • J. Meng, R. Krithivasan, S. Su and A. Helal, "Flexibility and Dynamism in E-Service based Workflow Management Systems," Kluwer Electronic Commerce Research Journal (special issue on "Business Process Integration and E-Commerce Infrastructure). Accepted July 2002 .
  • Sumi Helal and Jingting Lu, "E-service Based Information Fusion: A User-Level Information Integration Framework," Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Technologies for E-Services, In conjunction with VLDB 2002, Hong Kong, August 2002. (pdf)
  • Amar Nalla, Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal and Vidya Renganarayanan, "aZIMAs: Almost Zero Infrastructure Mobile Agents System," Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Orlando, Florida, March 2002. (pdf )
  • Vidya Renganarayanan, Amar Nalla and Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal, "Internet Agents for Effective Collaboration," Proceedings of the IEEE Fourth International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications (MATA'2002), Barcelona, Spain, October 22-24, 2002. (pdf)
  • Subramanian Arumugam, Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal, Amar Nalla, "aZIMAS: Web Mobile Agent System," Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Agents, Barcelona, Spain , October 22-25, 2002. (pdf)
  • J. Meng, S. Y.W. Su, H. Lam and A. Helal, "Achieving Dynamic Inter-organizational Workflow Management by Integrating Business Processes, Events, and Rules," Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-35), January 2002. (pdf)
  • Sumi Helal, Stanley Su, Jie Meng, Raja Krithivasan, and Arun Jagatheesan, "The Internet Enterprise," Proceedings of the Second IEEE/IPSJ Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT'02), Jan/Feb 2002, Nara, Japan. (pdf)
  • J. Meng, R. Krithivasan, S. Su and A. Helal, "Flexible Inter-enterprise Workflow Management using E-Services," Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems (WECWIS), Newport Beach, California, USA, June 2002. (pdf)

2001

Mobile and Pervasive Computing

  • A. Ramamurthy and A. Helal, "Optimizing Thin Clients for Wireless Computing via Localization of Keyboard Activities," Proceedings of the International Performance, Computing, and Communication Conference (IPCCC), Phoenix, Arizona, April 2001. (pdf)
  • A. Helal, J. Hammer, A. Khushraj and J. Zhang, “A Three-tier Architecture for Ubiquitous Data Access” Proceedings of the First ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, to be held June 2001, in Beirut, Lebanon. (pdf)
  • E. Hernandez and A. Helal, "Examining Mobile-IP Performance in Rapidly Mobile Environments: The Case of a Commuter Train, " Proceedings of the 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), November 2001, Tampa, Florida. (pdf)
  • C. Lee and A. Helal, "An ns-based Bluetooth LAP Simulator," Proceedings of the 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), November 14, 2001, Tampa, Florida. (pdf)
  • D. Buszko, W. Lee, and A. Helal, "Decentralized Ad-Hoc Groupware API and Framework for Mobile Collaboration,"Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (Group'01) held in September 2001 in Boulder, Colorado, USA. (pdf)
  • A. Helal, S. Moore, and B. Ramachandran, "Drishti: An Integrated Navigation System for Visually Impaired and Disabled," Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wearable Computer, October 2001, Zurich, Switzerland. (pdf)
  • R. Loy and A. Helal, "Active Mode Power Management in Mobile Devices," Proceedings of the 5th World Multi-Conferences on Systematics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, July 2001, Orlando, Florida. (pdf)

Internet Computing

  • A. Helal, M. Wang, and A. Jagatheesan, "Service-Centric Brokering in Dynamic E-Business Agent Communities,"Journal of ElectronicCommerce Research (JECR), Baltzer Science Publisher, 2001. (pdf)
  • A. Helal, M. Wang, A. Jagatheesan and R. Krithivasan, "Brokering Based Self Organizing E-Service Communities". Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS) With an Emphasis on Electronic Commerce, March 26-28, 2001 Dallas, Texas. (pdf)
  • R. Krithivasan and A. Helal, "BizBuilder - An e-Services Framework Targeted for Internet Workflow," Proceedings of the third Workshop on Technologies for E-Services, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, VOL. 2193. In conjunction with VLDB 2001, Sept 2001, Rome, Italy. (pdf)

2000

Mobile and Pervasive Computing

  • C. Aksoy and A. Helal, "Optimizing Thin Clients for Wireless Active-media Applications," Proceedings of the Third IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA'00), held in Monterey, CA, Dec 7-8, 2000. (pdf)
  • L. Sampath L, A. Helal, J. Smith, "UMA-based Wireless and Mobile Video Delivery Architecture," Proceedings of the SPIE Voice, Video and Data Communications Symposium, November 2000. (pdf)
  • A. Helal, C. Lee, Y. Zhang and G. Richard, "Towards Integrating Wireless LANs with Wireless WANs using Mobile IP,"Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2000), Chicago, Illinois. September 2000. (pdf)

Internet Computing

  • J. Meng, A. Helal, and Stanley Su, "An Ad-Hoc Workflow Architecture Based on Mobile Agent and Rule-Based Processing," The special session on Software Agent-Oriented Workflows, Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Techniques and Applications, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2000. (pdf)

1999

Mobile and Pervasive Computing

  • J. Jing, A. Helal, and A. Elmagarmid, "Client-Server Computing in Mobile Environments,"ACM Computing Surveys, volume 31, Number 2, June 1999 .
  • A. Helal, B. Haskell, J. Carter, R. Brice, D. Woelk, and M. Rusinkiewicz, "Any Time Anywhere Computing: Mobile Computing Concepts and Technology," Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0-7923-8610-8, Published October 1999 .

Internet Computing

  • X. Liu, A. Helal, and W. Du, "Multi-view Access Protocols for Large-Scale Replication," ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), Volume 23, Number 2, June 1998, pp. 158-198.