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Dear CCSE Community,

You are all cordially invited to attend this week’s three seminars by our CCSE graduate students. The seminars will take place December 17 at 2:30 pm in Building 22: Room 119. This week’s seminars are:

Seminar 1

Title: Comparison of Attack Mitigation Techniques for Economic Denial of Sustainability (EDOS) attack in Cloud Computing environment

Abstract: Economic Denial of Sustainability (EDoS) attack in cloud computing is considered one of the main security issues that prevent many organizations from migrating its services to cloud computing environment. Because this kind of attacks targets the financial constraints of the service provider who rents his resources from Cloud Company. Many researchers in the recent few years tried to eliminate EDoS attack. But, they failed to prevent it completely. Alternatively, they proposed some mitigation techniques that can reduce the influence of this attack. In this talk, I will present the methodology of five existing mitigation techniques for EDoS attacks, then I will give a tabular comparison that includes the pros and cons of each technique.

Speaker: Mr. Omar Maraqa

Bio: Mr. Omar Maraqa is a M.S. student in Computer Networks, Computer Engineering department at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals(KFUPM), earned his B.S. degree in Communication and Electronics Engineering  from Palestine Polytechnic University Hebron-Palestine 2011. His research interests include Energy  Efficient  Cellular Networks, Cognitive Radio and Security concerns in Cloud Computing .

Seminar 2

Title:  Gender-face classification using Gabor filter

Abstract: Human face is one of the most important biometric that contains more information including gender, race, and age. Identifying human face gender from images is a challenge that has been extensively studied because of its relevant applications. Several approaches have been used to address this problem by specifying a suitable features. In this study, we apply Gabor filter on each image to generate 18 different filtered images and extract features from these 18 filtered images. Several classifier techniques are used in this study and we obtained good result.

Speaker:  Mr. Ebrahim  Alwajih

Bio: Mr. Ebrahim  Alwajih is a master student at Information & Computer Science department, Fahd University of petroleum and minerals. He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from Hodeida University, 2007. His research interests are focusing on Bioinformatics and machine learning

Seminar 3

Title:  Privacy Notices, Notice and Choice

Abstract: Different approaches have been proposed in the last two decades for internet privacy. There is still a debate between the websites technicians and the industrial people about how to define and manage it. Many questions are needed to be answered and to be agreed about it, before we decide what are the global and suitable guidelines to manage this online privacy. What are the most appropriate models to choose, and how to guarantee privacy for normal user in the cyber-space. In this survey paper, we will explore different approaches and what are the challenges for making better privacy policies.

Speaker:  Mr. Abdallah Rashed

Bio: Mr. Abdallah Rashed received his B.S. degree in computer engineering from An-Najah National University, Palestine in 2008 and his M.S. degree in computer engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in 2012. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering at KFUPM. His research interests include Wireless networks, Network security and Parallel computations.

Regards,

Dr. Mohamed El-Attar

Associate Professor :: Software Engineering

Information and Computer Science Department

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia