Research Activities Web Page of J. Talim

Short biography

Since September 2001, I am an Assistant Professor at Carleton University, Department of Systems and computer Engineering. I wrote this short biography on December 4, 2001. It means that I did not have much time to do any research since I started my position at Carleton University. In the meantime, the research topics I am interested in are:
- Call Center Performance Evaluation
- Network traffic processing
- Genes decoding
Before I came here, I did three Postdocs:

One year at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, the University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon (Canada). (1) In collaboration with Nortel and MITACS, I worked on the Fuzzy Connection Admission Control that combines Fuzzy Logic, Traffic Predictions and CAC function. I also worked on a Self-Learning algorithm that enables the fuzzyCAC to adapt its behaviour based on the current network conditions. (2) I also proposed a theoretical model for the Voice Response Unit, that is used in Call Center to process calls from customers.
One year at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (Wiskunde & Informatica), Vrije University, in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). I focused on Call Center management, in particular using simulations, I analyzed calls routing based on requested service and agents skills.
One year at the Center for Communication Systems Research, the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). It was a year dedicated to Differentiated Service Framework design. I was part of a project within Hitachi.

Before all this (long trip), I did my Phd in France at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis. I worked on a theoretical model of Web robots or spiders. This work uses markovian decision processes In the meantime, you can have a look of my resume (in pdf format)

Publications/ Conferences

``Optimisation du nombre de robots dans les moteurs de recherche sur le Web, dans les cas statique et dynamique'', J. Talim, Z. Liu, P. Nain, E.G Coffman, Jr., JDIR98, ENST Paris, May 1998
``Contr\^ole et Optimisation dans les R\'eseaux Multim\'edia'', J. Talim, PhD Thesis, University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, February 1999
``Optimizing the Number of Robots for Web Search Engines'', J. Talim, Z. Liu, P. Nain, E.G Coffman, Jr., 7th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Modelling and Analysis, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, March 1999,
``Optimizing the Number of Robots for Web Search Engines'', J. Talim, Z. Liu, P. Nain, E.G Coffman, Jr., Telecommunications Systems 17:1,2, 245-266, 2001
``Controlling Robots in Web Search Engines'', J. Talim, Z. Liu, P. Nain, E.G Coffman, Jr., Proc. of the ACM SIGMETRICS 2001 Performance 2001 Conference, Cambridge, MA, June 17-20, 2001
``Providing Service Differentiation in the Internet and Differentiated Service Implementation Framework'', J. Talim, June 1999, HITACHI Technical Report
``Exponential Approximation of Multi Skill Call Centers Architecture'', J. Talim and G. Koole , Queueing Networks with Finite Capacity workshop, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, July 2000
``Approximation of the Number of Customers in a Call Center in a Non Stationary Environment'', J. Talim and G. Koole, preprint
``Fixed Capacity Channel Management Based on Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks'', J. Talim and R. Srinivasan, MITACS report (preprint), November 2000
``Performance analysis of a Call Center with Interacting Voice Response Units'', J. Talim and R. Srinivasan, 11th INFORMS Applied Probability Society (APS) Conference, July 2001