Farid Meziane

Farid Meziane is a reader in software engineering in the School of Computing, Science and Engineering at the University of Salford (UK). He received a PhD in Software Engineering from the University of Salford (1994). His research interests are in the area of software engineering with particular emphasis on the integration of formal methods in the software development process, software quality and requirements engineering. His research is published in journals that include the Annals of Software Engineering, the Computer Journal, and the Journal of the Operational Research Society. He was awarded the highly commended award from the literati club in 2001 for a paper published in the Integrated Manufacturing Systems Journal. He is on the program committee of many international conferences, is a reviewer for the data and knowledge engineering journal, and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering. He was the program chair and the organizer of the 9th International Conference on the Application of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB04). He is a chartered member of the British Computer Society.

Publications

A Methodology for Ontology Reuse: The Case of the Abdominal Ultrasound Ontology
A Methodology for Ontology Reuse: The Case of the Abdominal Ultrasound Ontology
Nur Zareen Zulkarnain, Farid Meziane. © 2019. 21 pages.
There is an abundance of existing biomedical ontologies such as the National Cancer Institute Thesaurus and the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms. Implementing...
Arabic Query Expansion Using WordNet and Association Rules
Arabic Query Expansion Using WordNet and Association Rules
Ahmed Abbache, Farid Meziane, Ghalem Belalem, Fatma Zohra Belkredim. © 2018. 16 pages.
Query expansion is the process of adding additional relevant terms to the original queries to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. However, previous studies...
Query Expansion Using Medical Information Extraction for Improving Information Retrieval in French Medical Domain
Query Expansion Using Medical Information Extraction for Improving Information Retrieval in French Medical Domain
Aicha Ghoulam, Fatiha Barigou, Ghalem Belalem, Farid Meziane. © 2018. 17 pages.
This article describes how many users' queries contain references to named entities, and this is particularly true in the medical field. Doctors express their information...
Arabic Query Expansion Using WordNet and Association Rules
Arabic Query Expansion Using WordNet and Association Rules
Ahmed Abbache, Farid Meziane, Ghalem Belalem, Fatma Zohra Belkredim. © 2016. 14 pages.
Query expansion is the process of adding additional relevant terms to the original queries to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. However, previous studies...
A Generic QoS Model for Web Services Design
A Generic QoS Model for Web Services Design
Wan Nurhayati Wan Ab. Rahman, Farid Meziane. © 2013. 26 pages.
The development, registration, discovery, and invocation of quality Web services are vital for the successful implementation of applications using Web services. Considerable...
Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering: Current Developments and Future Prospects
Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering: Current Developments and Future Prospects
Farid Meziane, Sunil Vadera. © 2012. 22 pages.
Artificial intelligences techniques such as knowledge based systems, neural networks, fuzzy logic and data mining have been advocated by many researchers and developers as the...
A Generic QoS Model for Web: Services Design
A Generic QoS Model for Web: Services Design
Wan Nurhayati Wan Ab. Rahman, Farid Meziane. © 2011. 24 pages.
The development, registration, discovery, and invocation of quality Web services are vital for the successful implementation of applications using Web services. Considerable...
Artificial Intelligence Applications for Improved Software Engineering Development: New Prospects
Artificial Intelligence Applications for Improved Software Engineering Development: New Prospects
Farid Meziane, Sunil Vadera. © 2010. 372 pages.
Despite decades of research, developing software that is fit for purpose, developed on time, and within budget remains a challenge. Many researchers have advocated the use of...
Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering: Current Developments and Future Prospects
Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering: Current Developments and Future Prospects
Farid Meziane, Sunil Vadera. © 2010. 22 pages.
Artificial intelligences techniques such as knowledge based systems, neural networks, fuzzy logic and data mining have been advocated by many researchers and developers as the...
A Decision Support System for Trust Formalization
A Decision Support System for Trust Formalization
Farid Meziane. © 2009. 18 pages.
Trust is widely recognized as an essential factor for the continual development of business-to-customer (B2C) electronic commerce (EC). Many trust models have been developed...
Evaluating E-Commerce Trust Using Fuzzy Logic
Evaluating E-Commerce Trust Using Fuzzy Logic
Farid Meziane. © 2009. 14 pages.
Trust is widely recognized as an essential factor for the continual development of business to customer electronic commerce (B2C EC). Many trust models have been developed...
Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR)
Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR)
Wen-Chen Hu. Est. 2008.
The Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR) presents comprehensive interdisciplinary and refereed research on the most emerging and breakthrough areas of information...
Evaluating E-commerce Trust Using Fuzzy Logic
Evaluating E-commerce Trust Using Fuzzy Logic
Farid Meziane, Samia Nefti. © 2007. 15 pages.
Trust is widely recognized as an essential factor for the continual development of business to customer electronic commerce (B2C EC). Many trust models have been developed...
International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE)
International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE)
Ghazi I. Alkhatib. Est. 2006.
Organizations are continuously overwhelmed by a variety of new information technologies; many are Web-based. These new technologies are capitalizing on the widespread use of...
A Web Services Implementation of a User-Centered Knowledge Management Platform for the Construction Industry
A Web Services Implementation of a User-Centered Knowledge Management Platform for the Construction Industry
Yacine Rezgui, Farid Meziane. © 2005. 19 pages.
The research described in this paper aims at specifying and developing an open model-based infrastructure and a set of tools that promote consistent knowledge management within...