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Afef MDHAFFAR
ReDCAD laboratory   |  ENIS   |  University of Sfax
Research Unit on Development and Control of Distributed Applications

Current State

PhD student, National School of Engineering of Sfax-Tunisia

ACM member

IEEE member (Computer Society)

Education

M.S. degree (DEA) in Computer Science from the National School of Engineering of Sfax-Tunisia, in 2009.

Engineer degree in Computer Science from the National School of Engineering of Sfax-Tunisia, in 2007.

Address

National School of Engineering of Sfax (ENIS)
Department of the Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (DGIMA)
Route de Soukra Km 4, PB 1173, Sfax-Tunisie
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Research activities

Research Topics
My current research works are concentrated on the Quality of Service (QoS) management of SOA and Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing is a technology that provides on-demand access to massively scalable resources in the field of Service Computing. This new technology has emerged as a new paradigm for deploying, managing and offering services through a shared infrastructure. Maintaining QoS is important for this kind of service-based applications. It requires the ability to deal with permanently changing constraints at many levels (Infrastructure, Platform, Service). Repairing QoS degradation also requires the capacity of identifying its possible or actual sources and the capacity of reconfiguration decision and enforcement. Dealing with these issues is especially challenging for Cloud Computing-based application since the self-healing solution has to preserve the dynamic composition property and to be seamless for the service requesters, while being always usable under the different deployment constraints.

Master's thesis
A Dynamic QoS Reference Model Generation for Analysis of Web Services-based Applications

Organization Committee Member of:
- METHODICA-I'2009: The 4th workshop on Methods for the Adaptive Distributed Software.

Educational activities

In the Faculty of Economics and Management of Sfax, I teach courses related to distributed applications, J2EE architecture and SOA.