Department of Systems and
Computer Engineering

Network Management and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Recent Publications
(updated April 15, 2002)

 Book Chapters and Papers in Refereed Journals
 Conference Papers
 Technical Reports
 Theses

Book Chapters

  1. Bieszczad, A., White, T., Mobile Agents for Network Management. in "The Fundamentals of Network Management", eds. R. Glitho, S. Aidarous, Plenum books, 1999.
  2. Tosic, V., Mennie, D., Pagurek, B.  (2002) On Dynamic Service Composition and Its Applicability to E-Business Software Systems - The ICARIS Experience, accepted for publication as a book chapter in Corchuelo et al. (eds.) Advances in Business Solutions, Nova Science, 2002. This is an improved and extended version of the WOOBS'01 paper!

Papers in Refereed Journals

  1. Tang, J., White, T., Pagurek, B., Glitho, R. (2000), Advanced Service Architecture for H.323 Internet Protocol Telephony. Computer Communications, special issue on Mobile Software Agents for Telecommunications Applications, Vol.23 No.8, April 2000, pp 740-753.
  2. White T., Pagurek B., and Bieszczad A. (1999), Network Modeling For Management Applications Using Intelligent Mobile Agents. Journal of Network and Systems  Management,  Special Issue on Mobile Agent-based Network and Service Management, September 1999.
  3. Bieszczad, A., White, T., Pagurek, B. (1998), Mobile Agents for Network Management. In IEEE Communications Surveys, September, 1998.

Conference Papers

  1. Tosic, V., Pagurek, B., Esfaniari, B., Patel, K. (2002), Management of Compositions of E- and M-Business Web Services with Multiple Classes of Service. In Proc. of the NOMS (Network Operations and Management Symposium) 2002, Florence, Italy, April 15-19, 2002, IEEE Publications. Poster Slides
  2. Luo, J., Pagurek, B. (2001), Context Transfer in Wireless Mobile Networks. CITO Knowledge Network Conference 2001, Ottawa, October 10-11, 2001. Poster Slides
  3.  Tosic, V., Patel, K., Pagurek, B. (2001), E-Business Service Components with Multiple Classes of Service and Dynamic Adaptability Mechanisms. CITO Knowledge Network Conference 2001, Ottawa, October 10-11, 2001. Poster Slides
  4. Mennie, D., Pagurek, B. (2001), A Runtime Composite Service Creation and Deployment Infrastructure and Its Applications in Internet Security, E-commerce, and Software Provisioning. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2001), Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 8-12, 2001, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp.371-376.
  5. Tan, L., Esfandiari, B., Pagurek, B. (2001), The SwapBox: A Test Container and a Framework for Hot-swappable JavaBeans. In Proc.of  the WCOP (Workshop on Component-Oriented Programming) workshop (at ECOOP 2001), Budapest, Hungary, June 19, 2001.
  6. Tosic, V., Mennie, D., Pagurek, B. (2001), On Dynamic Service Composition and Its Applicability to E-Business Software Systems. In Proc. of the WOOBS (Workshop on Object-Oriented Business Solutions) workshop (at ECOOP 2001), Budapest, Hungary, June 18, 2001, pp. 95-108. Presentation Slides. An improved and extended version of this paper will be printed in a book!
  7. Tosic, V., Mennie, D., Pagurek, B. (2001), Software Configuration Management Related to Management of Distributed Systems and Services and Advanced Service Creation. In Proc. of the Software Configuration Management 10 (SCM-10) workshop (at ICSE 2001), Toronto, May 14-15, 2001. Presentation Slides
  8. Feng, N., Gang, A., White, T., and Pagurek, B. (2001), Dynamic Evolution of Network Management Software by Software Hot-Swapping. In Proc. of the Seventh IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2001), Seattle, May 14-18, 2001, pp. 63-76.
  9. Pagurek, B. (2001), Deployment of Features in IP Telephony (abstract). CITO/OCRI TechTalk Workshop on Enhanced Services for Voice-Over-IP, Ottawa, April 17, 2001.
  10. Tosic, V., Pagurek, B. (2000), A New Approach to Information Modeling for Manageable Component-Based, Active, and Autonomous Service Provisioning. CITO Knowledge Network Conference 2000, Ottawa, October 2-3, 2000.
  11. Mennie D., and Pagurek B. (2000), An Architecture to Support Dynamic Composition of Service Components.  5th International Workshop on Component-Oriented Programming, WCOP 2000, Cannes, France, June 12, 2000.
  12. Pagurek B., Tang J., White T., and Glitho R.(2000), Management of Advanced Services in H.323 Internet Protocol Telephony.  Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2000,  Tel Aviv, April 2000.
  13. Pagurek B., Wang Y., and White T., Integration of Mobile Agents with SNMP: Why and How. IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2000,  Honolulu, April 10, 2000.
  14. White, T., Pagurek, B. (1999), Distributed Fault Location in Networks using Learning Mobile Agents. Proceedings of  PRIMA '99, Springer-Verlag Pub.,   Kyoto Japan, Dec. 2, 1999.
  15. Raza, S.K., Pagurek, B., White, T. (1999), Plug and Play Network Service Configuration using CORBA. Proceedings of the 5th I.F.I.P. Conference on Intelligence in Networks, SMARTNET ?99, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Bangkok, Thailand, Nov.26, 1999.
  16. Tang, J., White, T., Pagurek, B., Glitho, R. (1999), Advanced Mobile Agent Architectures for H.323 IP Telephony. Proceedings of  MATA '99, Mobile Agents for Telecommunications Applications, Ottawa, Canada, Oct. 1999.
  17. Boyer, J., Pagurek, B., White, T. (1999), Methodologies for PVC Configuration in Heterogeneous ATM Environments Using Intelligent Mobile Agents. Proceedings of  MATA '99, Mobile Agents for Telecommunications Applications, Ottawa, Canada, Oct. 1999.
  18. White T. and Pagurek B. (1999), Emergent Behaviour and Mobile Agents.  In proceedings of the workshop on Mobile Agents in the Context of Competition and Cooperation at Autonomous Agents '99, Seattle, 1999
  19. White T. and Pagurek B. (1999), Application Oriented Routing with Biologically-inspired Agents. In Banzhaf, W., Daida, J., Eiben, A. E., Garzon, M. H., Honavar, V., Jakiela, M., & Smith R. E. (eds.).  GECCO-99: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, July 13-17, 1999, Orlando, Florida USA. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.
  20. El-Darieby, M., Bieszczad, A. (1999), Intelligent Mobile Agents: Towards Network Fault Management Automation. In Proceedings of the Sixth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, May, 1999, pp. 611-622.
  21. Raza, S. K., Bieszczad, A. (1999), Network Configuration with Plug and Play Components. Presented at the Sixth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, May, 1999.
  22. White T., Bieszczad A., Pagurek B., Sugar G. and Tran X.(1998), Intelligent Network Modeling using Mobile Agents. In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference GLOBECOM '98,  November 8th-12th, 1998, pp. 1082-1087.
  23. White T., Pagurek B., and Oppacher, F. (1998), Connection Management using Adaptive Agents. In Proceedings of 1998 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'98).
  24. White T., Pagurek B. and Oppacher F. (1998), ASGA: Improving the Ant System by Integration with Genetic Algorithms. In Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Genetic Programming (GP/SGA '98), July, 1998.
  25. Bieszczad A., Raza S. K., Pagurek B., and White T. (1998), Agent-based Schemes for Plug-And-Play Network Components. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Agents in Telecommunications Applications  IATA'98, AgentWorld'98, Paris, France, July 4th-7th.
  26. White T., Bieszczad A., Pagurek B. (1998), Distributed Fault Location in Networks Using Mobile Agents. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Agents in Telecommunications Applications  IATA'98, AgentWorld'98, Paris, France, July 4th-7th.
  27. Pagurek B., Li Y., Bieszczad A., Susilo G. (1998), Network Configuration Management In Heterogeneous ATM Environments. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Agents in Telecommunications Applications  IATA'98, AgentWorld'98, Paris, France, July 4th-7th.
  28. White T., Pagurek B. (1998), Towards Multi-Swarm Problem Solving in Networks. In Proceedings of the 3rd  International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS '98), July, 1998.
  29. Pagurek B., Li Y., Bieszczad A., Susilo G. (1998), PVC Provisioning In Heterogeneous ATM Environments. In Proceedings of the 2nd  Canadian Conference on Broadband Research (CCBR '98), June 21-24, 1998, Ottawa, Canada.
  30. White T., Bieszczad A., Pagurek B., Sugar G. and Tran X. (1998), Intelligent Network Management using Mobile Agents. In Proceedings of the 2nd  Canadian Conference on Broadband Research (CCBR '98), June 21-24, 1998, Ottawa, Canada.
  31. Bieszczad, A. and Pagurek, B. (1998), Network Management Aplication-Oriented Taxonomy of Mobile Code, in Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management  Symposium NOMS'98, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 1998.
  32. Susilo, G., Bieszczad, A. and Pagurek, B. (1998), Infrastructure for Advanced Network Management based on Mobile Code, in Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management  Symposium NOMS'98, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 1998.
  33. Schramm, C., Bieszczad, A. and Pagurek, B. (1998), Application-Oriented Network Modeling with Mobile Agents, in Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management  Symposium NOMS'98, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 1998.
  34. Bieszczad, A. and Pagurek, B. (1997), Towards plug-and-play networks with mobile code, in Proceedings of the International Conference for  Computer Communications  ICCC'97, November 19-21, 1997, Cannes, France.
  35. Bieszczad A., and Pagurek B. (1997), Neurosolver as an Adaptable, Dynamic Routing Table. Proceedings of NEURAP'97, the Third International Conference on Neural Networks and their Applications, March 12-14 1997, Marseilles, France.
  36. Bieszczad A., and Pagurek B. (1997), Toward a Hardware Implementation of the Neurosolver: Analysis of Signalling. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of Information Sciences, Vol. 2: Computational Intelligence, Neural Networks, and Semiotics, Research Triangle Park, NC, March 1997, pp. 126-129.
  37. Bieszczad A., and Pagurek B. (1997), Multiple Neurosolvers. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of Information Sciences, Vol. 2: Computational Intelligence, Neural Networks, and Semiotics, Research Triangle Park, NC, March 1997, pp. 130-133.
  38. A. Bieszczad and B. Pagurek (1996), Planning Rearrangements in a Blocks World. Proceedings of World Congress on Neural Networks 1996, San Diego, CA, pp. 856-859.
  39. A. Bieszczad and B. Pagurek (1996), Neurosolver in a Blocks World. Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks 1996, Vol. II, Washington, DC, pp. 1215-1220.
  40. A. Bieszczad and B. Pagurek (1996), Solving Blocks World Problems with the Neurosolver. Proceedings of World Conference on Neural Networks, San Diego, CA, September 1996.
  41. A. Bieszczad and B. Pagurek (1996), Neurosolver Solves Blocks World Problems. Proceedings of ICNN'96, IEEE Conference on Neural Networks, Washington, DC, June 1996.
  42. G.W. Bond and B. Pagurek (1995), Heirarchical Diagnosis of Sequential Circuits. Proceedings of SMC'95, 1995, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vancouver, BC, October 1995.
  43. A. Bieszczad and B. Pagurek (1995), Neurosolver-based Agents for Solving Blocks World Problems. JCIS '95 Joint Conference on Information Systems - 1st International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Neurosciences, Wrightsville Beach, NC 1995.

Technical Reports

  1. White, T. Secure P2P Information Sharing, presentation slides, Ottawa-Carleton Instuitute for Computer Science Seminar, Carleton University, July, 2001.
  2. Tosic, V., Pagurek, B. E-Commerce Service Components with Multiple Classes of Service and Dynamic Adaptability Mechanisms, Technical Report OCIECE-01-09, Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Electrical Engineering May, 2001.
  3. Ning, F., S-Module Design for Software Hot Swapping Technology, Technical Report SCE-99-04, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, May, 1999.
  4. Pagurek, B., and White, T., A Quick Evaluation of H.323/H.450, Technical Report SCE-99-02, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, April, 1999.
  5. Gang, A., Software Hot Swapping Techniques, Technical Report SCE-98-11, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, December, 1998.
  6. Raza, S.K., Network Configuration with Plug and Play Components, Technical Report SCE-98-04, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, July, 1998.
  7. White, T., Routing with Swarm Intelligence, Technical Report SCE-97-15, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, September 1997.
  8. Bieszczad, A., Application-Oriented Taxonomy of Mobile Code, Technical Report SCE-97-13, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, June 1997.
  9. Schramm, C., Application-Oriented Network Modeling with Mobile Agents, Technical Report SCE-97-12, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, June 1997.
  10. Susilo, G., Infrastructure for Advanced Network Management based on Mobile Code, Technical Report SCE-97-10, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, June 1997.
  11. Campeau, A., 4th Year Project: Managing networks with mobile code, Technical Report SCE-97-09, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, April 1997.
  12. Bieszczad, A., Towards plug-and-play networks with mobile code, Technical Report SCE-97-08, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, March 1997.
  13. Bieszczad, A., Advanced Network Management in the Network Management Perpetuum Mobile Procura Project, Technical Report SCE-97-07, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, March 1997.

Theses

This is a list of our graduate students that rececently completed their theses:
  1. Zhang, D. The Deployment of Features in Internet Telephony. M.A.Sc., January 2002.
  2. Tan, L. SwapBox: a Hot-Swapping Framework for Swappable JavaBeans. M.Sc., September 2001.
  3. Lu, T. A CORBA-based Interface-centric Approach to Signaling for IP-based Telephony Services. M.Eng., March 2001.
  4. Mennie, D., An Architecture to Support Dynamic Composition of Service Components and its Applicability to Internet Security. M.Eng., September 2000.
  5. Cuesta Rivalta, P., Mobile Agent Management. M.Eng., September 2000.
  6. White, T., SynthECA: A Synthetic Ecology of Chemical Agents. Ph.D., August 2000.
  7. Tang, J., Mobile Agent Based Advanced Service Architecture for H.323 Internet Protocol Telephony. M.Eng., July 2000.
  8. Ao, G., Software Hot-swapping Techniques for Upgrading Mission Critical Applications on the Fly. M.Eng., May 2000.
  9. Feng N., S-Module Design for Software Hot-Swapping. M.Eng.,1999.
  10. Teng, C., Alarm Correlation in ATM Networks. M.Eng., 1999.
  11. Raza, K., A Plug-and-play Approach with Distributed Computing Alternatives for Network Configuration Management. M.Eng., April 1999.
  12. Choi, D.,  SEDO: Semantic Error Diagnostic Operation. M.Eng., September 1998.
  13. Wang, Y., Interface Between Mobile and Legacy SNMP Agents using DPI. M.Eng., September 1998.
  14. Brunet, R., Temporal Alarm Correlation in Communication Networks. M.Eng., May 1998.
  15. Li, Y., PVC Configuration Management in Heterogeneous ATM Networks. M.Eng., January 1998
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