Hamid Reza Motahari Nezhad

Research Scientist
Services Research Lab
Palo Alto

Biography

Hamid is a Research Scientist in the Services Research Lab (SRL), HP Labs, Palo Alto.

He is also a Visiting Research Fellow This is a Non-HP site  in the Service Oriented Computing Group This is a Non-HP site, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. He has a PhD in Computer Science from UNSW, Australia (PhD thesis This is a Non-HP site).  

Contact him at  hamid [dot] motahari [at] CompanyName (i.e.HP) [dot] com 

 

Research interests

  • Service Engineering, Services Computing
  • Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, SaaS 
  • Social Computing, Collaborative and Social Networking Techniques
  • Business Processes, Ad-hoc and Semi-structured Processes
  • Business Process Intelligence, Process Data Management 

Publications

Conference and Workshops (Recent, 2009-)

  • Hamid Reza Motahari Nezhad and Claudio Bartolini:  Next Best Step and Expert Recommendation for Collaborative Processes in IT Service Management, 9th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2011), France.
  • Seyed-Mehdi-Reza Beheshti, Boualem Benatallah, Hamid Reza Motahari-Nezhad and Sherif Sakr : A Query Language for Analyzing Business Processes Execution, 9th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2011), France.
  • Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, Claudio Bartolini, Parag Joshi, Analytics for Similarity Matching of IT Cases with Collaboratively-defined Activity Flows, First International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Semi-Structured Business Processes (DMA4SP 2011), Germany.
  • Adnene Guabtni, Hamid Reza Motahari-Nezhad, Boualem Benatallah, Using Graph Aggregation for Service Interaction Message Correlation, 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE) 2011, London, UK.
  • Hamid R. Motahari-Nezhad, Sven Graupner, Claudio Bartolini, A Framework for Modeling and Enabling Reuse of Best Practice IT Processes, The 1st International Workshop on Reuse in Business Process Management (rBPM'10), USA. 2010.
  • Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, Claudio Bartolini, S. Graupner, S. Singhal, S. Spence, IT Support Conversation Manager: A Conversation-Centered Approach and Tool for IT Incident Management, 14th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2010), October 25-29, 2010 Brazil.
  • Razieh-Sadat Shamsedin-Tekieh, Fethi Rabhi, Hamid R. Motahari-Nezhad, A Middleware Solution Enabling Electronic Business Document Integration for SMEs in Supply Chains, 7th IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2010), November 10-12, 2010, China.
  • Yin Wang, Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, Sharad Singhal, On the Expressiveness Power of Service Models for Automated Service Composition, 7th IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2010), November 10-12, 2010, China
  • Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, S. Graupner, S. Singhal, Business Conversation Manager: Facilitating People Interactions in Outsourcing Service Engagements, 10th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2010), July 7-9 2010, Austria. Publisher PDF This is a Non-HP site Download Paper
  • Motahari-Nezhad, H.R., Xu Guang Yuan and Benatallah, Boualem (2010). Protocol-Aware Matching of Web Service Interfaces for Adapter Development, 19th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW'10), April 26-30, Raleigh, NC, USA. Download Paper
  • Motahari-Nezhad, H. R., Stephenson, B., Singhal, S., & Castellanos, M. (2009). Virtual Business Operating Environment in the Cloud: Conceptual Architecture and Challenges. ER 2009: 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, November 9-12, 2009, Gramado, Brazil.
  • Graupner, S., Motahari-Nezhad, H. R., Singhal, S., & Basu, S. (2009). Making Process from Best practices Frameworks Actionable. DDBP 2009: Second International Workshop on Dynamic and Declarative Business Processes, September 1, 2009, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Souza, A., Silva, B., Lins, F., Damasceno, J., Rosa, N., Maciel, P., Medeiros, R., Stephenson, B., Motahari-Nezhad, H. R., Li, J., & Northfleet, C. (2009). Incorporating Security Requirements into Service Composition: From Modelling to Execution. ICSOC/ServiceWave 2009: The 7th International Joint Conference on Service Oriented Computing, November 24-27, 2009, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Souza, A., Silva, B., Lins, F., Damasceno, J., Rosa, N., Maciel, P., Medeiros, R., Stephenson, B., Motahari-Nezhad, H. R., Li, J., & Northfleet, C. (2009). Sec-MoSC Tooling - Incorporating Security Requirements into Service Composition. ICSOC/ServiceWave 2009: The 7th International Joint Conference on Service Oriented Computing, November 24-27, 2009, Stockholm, Sweden (Demo paper).
  • Rosa, N., Souza, A., Silva, B., Lins, F., Damasceno, J., Maciel, P., Medeiros, R., Stephenson, B., Motahari-Nezhad, H. R., Li, J., & Northfleet, C. (2009). Towards Generating Richer Code by Binding Security Abstractions to BPMN Task Types. ER 2009: 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, November 9-12, 2009, Gramado, Brazil (Poster).
  • Lins, F., Souza, A., Damasceno, J., Rosa, N., Maciel, P., Medeiros, R., Stephenson, B., Motahari-Nezhad, H. R., Li, J., Northfleet, C., & Silva, B. (2009). An Approach for Reducing the Gap Between BPMN Models and Implementation Artefacts. ER 2009: 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, November 9-12, 2009, Gramado, Brazil (Demo paper).
  • Motahari-Nezhad, H. R., Li, J., Stephenson, B., Graupner, S., & Singhal, S. (2009). Solution Reuse for Service Composition and Integration. WSCA 2009: 3rd International Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation, July 7, 2009, Los Angeles, California, USA. 
Journals/Magazines  (Recent, 2009-)
  • Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Regis Saint-Paul: From business processes to process spaces: A new abstraction for process management in modern enterprises,  IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 15 Issue 1, January 2011. PDF This is a Non-HP site 
  • Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, Regis Saint-Paul, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Event Correlation for Process Discovery from Web Service Interaction Logs,  To appear in International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB Journal). Publisher PDF This is a Non-HP site
  • Li, J., Stephenson, B., Motahari-Nezhad, H. R. & Singhal, S. A Data Assurance Policy Specification and Enforcement Framework for Outsourced Services, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (Accepted, To Appear).
  • Kongdenfha, W., Motahari-Nezhad, H. R., Benatallah, B., Casati, F., & Saint-Paul, R. (2009). Mismatch patterns and adaptation aspects: A foundation for rapid development of web service adapters. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (2009), 2(2), 94-107. DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2009.12  Download Paper
  • Skogsrud, H., Motahari-Nezhad, H. R., Benatallah, B., & Casati, F. (2009). Modeling Trust Negotiation for Web Services. IEEE Computer (February 2009), 42(2): 54-61. DOI: 10.1109/MC.2009.56
Technical Reports (Recent, 2009-)

See HPL Technical Reports for the complete list.
  • Kongdenfha, Woralak; Motahari Nezhad, Hamid Reza; Benatallah, Boualem; Casati, Fabio; Saint-Paul, Regis, An Aspect-oriented Approach for Service Adaptation, Technical Report UNSW-CSE-TR-0902, The School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia, February 2009.
  • Motahari-Nezhad, Hamid R.; Li, Jun; Stephenson, Bryan; Graupner, Sven; Singhal, Sharad, Solution Marketplace for Service Composition and Integration, HPL-2009-96, May 6, 2009
  • Graupner, S., Motahari-Nezhad, H. R, Singhal, S., & Basu, S. (2009). Making Processes from Best Practice Frameworks Actionable. HP Labs Technical Report: HPL-2009-196.
  • Graupner, S., Singhal, S., Basu, S., & Motahari, H. (2009). Enabling a Semantic Wiki to Drive Business Interactions. HP Labs Technical Report: HPL-2009-193.
Prior Publication (related to my UNSW work or prior to 2009)

See other publication at my personal page at UNSW This is a Non-HP site or DBLP This is a Non-HP site

Professional activities

Organization Committe

Reviewer for Journal
  • Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal, Springer 
  • ACM Transactions on the Web, ACM 
  • IEEE Transactions on Service Computing
  • Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), International, China
  • Journal of Database Management (JDM)
Program Committe
  • WI 2011, ICWE 2011, ICWS 2011, BPM 2011, VLDS 2011, C4E 2011, MW4SOC 2011 
  • 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2011,  Software Infrastructure Track This is a Non-HP site
  • 9th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM) 2011 This is a Non-HP site
  • 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2010, Software Architecture and Infrastructure Track This is a Non-HP site.
  • 8th Int'l Conf. on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC) 2010
  • First International Workshop on the Adaptation of Web Services (AWS'2010), August 31st, Toronto, Canada, 2010
  • 6th International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI 2010), with BPM'10
  • Third International Workshop on Dynamic and Declarative Business Processes (DDBP), 2010.
  • IEEE International Conference on Web Services, (ICWS) 2010.
  • ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, 2010
  • 5th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC-2010)
  • The 6th International Symposium on Web and Mobile Information Services (WAMIS) 2010
  • ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, 2010
  • Services Cup 2009, International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009)
  • The 3rd International Workshop on Collaborative Business Processes (CBP 2009), in conjunction with Business Process Management (BPM 2009)
  • Middleware for Web Services (MWS2009) Workshop in conjunction with 13th Int. IEEE EDOC Conference "The Enterprise Computing Conference" 2009
  • The 6th International Conference on E-Business Engineering (ICEBE) 2009