Dr. Abdolreza Abhari
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Ryerson University
350 Victoria Street
Toronto , Ontario M5B 2K3, Canada

Office: ENG 284
Phone: 416-979-5000 ext. 6972
Email: aabhari@scs.ryerson.ca

Office Hours:
Thursday: From 2:00 to 5:00 pm.

Teaching

CP 8210: Data Science
CPS 510: Database System I
CPS 730: Web Technology and Performance Measurement
CP 8203: Advanced Databases
CP 8304: Distributed Systems
CPS 209: Computer Science II
CPS 801: Operating Systems II
CPS 213: Computer Organization I

Courses Taught:

At Ryerson University:

CP8203: Advanced Database Systems
CPS730: Web Technology and Performance Measurement
CP8304: Distributed Systems
CPS840: Selected Topics: Web Technology and Performance Measurement
CPS801: Operating System
CPS510: Database Systems
CPS611: Object Oriented Languages
CPS213: Computer Organization
CPS211: Logical Circuites
CPS125: Digital Computation and Programing

At Carleton University:

Introduction to Object Oriented Programing (java)

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/

YouTube Workload Generation, Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS09), San Diego, US., May 2009

Web page-based clustering policy, Ryerson University,Toronto, May 6th, 2005.

Web object based cache management , Concordia University, Montreal, 2003 (invited talk).

Research

My current research interests include:

Data Science
Web 2.0 Social Networking
Software Engineering and Information Retrieval
Data Mining and Database Systems
Sensor Networks and Distributed Systems
Web/Internet Technology, Performance Measurement, Modeling and Caching
Modeling and Simulation
Soft Computing

Research Project on Twitter Recommender System Simulator
          Twitter Recommender System Simulator
Research Project on Intelligent Security Camera:
           Object Movement Detection by Real-Time Deep Learning for Security Surveillance Camera (Please use Google Chrome version 55.0.2883 or Revision 438878 to be able to see the demo)
Research Project on Sensor Networks:
           Analyzing Building Performance with Wireless Sensor Networks (Floor Visualization video)
Research Project on Web 2.0 Social Networking :
           YouTube Workload Simulator (C source code)
Research Project on Proxy Caching:
           Including Prefetching in Squid

       Research Labs:
             Director of Distributed Systems and Multimedia Processing (DSMP) Lab, Powerpoint Presentation of DSMP Lab
     Member of Distributed Applications and Broadband Networks Laboratory

      Research Supports:
            Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
            Canada Foundation for Innovation

Graduate Students Supervised

Lubaid Ahmed, PhD (Completed 2016), Distributed recommender systems using multi-agents for social networks
Alaa Hussainalsaid, MSc. (Completed 2016), Automatic classification of the emotional content of web documents using NLP algorithms
Mubarak Alrashoud, PhD (Completed 2015), Release Planning for Multi-tenant software as a service (SaaS) applications
Shakira Banu Kaleel MSc.(Completed 2015) , Cluster-discovery of twitter messages for event detection and trending
Meshary Almeshary MSc. (Completed 2015) , Follow your neighbors and engage to the new culture
Hesaneh Behzadfar MSC. (Completed 2014), Applying supervised learning algorithms on information derived from Social Network to enhance recommender systems
RASHEL Rana MSc. (Completed 2014) , Location based popularity analysis of Twitter data
Rehana Parvin MSc. student (Completed 2014), Fuzzy database for medical diagnosis
Reza Solatai, MSc. student (Completed 2013) , Identity matching in social media platforms
Rouzbeh Behrouz, MSc. student (Completed 2012 ), Increasing Network Lifetime In Cluster Based Wireless Sensor Networks Via Fuzzy Logic
Touhid Ghasemi, MSc student, (Completed 2012), Fuzzy Thesauri Recommendation System For Web 2.0 Social networks
Shahin Tallaei, MSc student, (Completed 2012), Peer-To-Peer Multimedia And Information Sharing In Social Networking Web Sites
Negin Behboodi, MSc. student (Completed 2011) , An Improvement on Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (Leach) Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Fouad Butt, MSc student, (Completed 2011), High performance computing for linear acoustic wave simulation
Abdolkarim Hajfarrajolah, MSc student, (Completed 2011), Secure message routing in structured peer-to-peer networks
Arayeh Norouzi,, MEng student, Co-supervised (Completed 2010), Enhancing Broadcast Authentication in Sensor Networks
Maryam Bashardoost Tajali, MSc student, (Completed 2010), A peer-to-peer delivery system for internet short video sharing
Khashayar Habibi, MSc student, (Completed 2010), Web service replica selection analysis using a multiagent-based simulator
Ahmad Hosseingholizadeh, MSc student, (Completed 2010), A Study On Automatic Software Quality And Reliability Anlaysis
Fatemeh Pakzad, MSc student, (Completed 2010), Characterization of User Networks in Facebook
Yijun Chen, MSc student (Completed 2010), QoS-based semantic web service selection
Saadat Bokhari, MSc student (Completed 2009), Web Service Based Grid Resource Discovery
Mojgan Soraya, MASc (Completed 2008), Web multimedia files characterization
Adam Serbinski, MASc (Completed 2007), Prefetching in HTTP to improve performance in the delivery of web pages

Conferences
17th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS’14)
SummerSim'13 Multi-Conference