Dr. Younas is a member of the Cloud Computing and Cybersecurity research group and the Cloud and Network Softwarization (CloudNets) research initiative. He is the network co-lead of the Migration and Refugees Research Network.

He has collaborated with national and international academic institutes and industries on various research projects. He has contributed to professional activities in a number of areas, including: organization of international conferences and workshops, editorial boards of international journals, keynote talks, membership of professional societies and funding bodies.

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Publications

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Journals

• M. Younas "Research challenges of big data", Service Oriented Computing and Applications. vol. 13(2): 2019
• B, Mohammed, I, Awan, H, Ugail, M. Younas "Failure prediction using machine learning in a virtualised HPC system and application", Clust. Comput. 22(2): 471-485 (2019)
• M.T González-Aparicio, M. Younas, J. Tuya, R. Casado, "Testing of transactional services in NoSQL key-value databases", Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 80: 384-399 (2018)
• M. Younas, I. Awan, G. Ghinea, T-M Grønli "Editorial: New developments in cloud and IoT", Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 86: 723-725 (2018)
• Q. A Mirza, I. Awan, M. Younas "CloudIntell: An intelligent malware detection system" Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 86: 1042-1053 (2018)
• M.T González-Aparicio, A. Ogunyadeka, M. Younas, J. Tuya, R. Casado "Transaction processing in consistency-aware user's applications deployed on NoSQL databases" Hum. centric Comput. Inf. Sci. 7: 7 (2017)
• M. Younas, I. Awan, A. Pescapè "Internet of Things and Cloud Services", Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 56: 605-606 (2016)
• K. Sapkota, A. Aldea, M. Younas, D.A. Duce, R. Bañares-Alcántara "Automating the semantic mapping between regulatory guidelines and organizational processes", Serv. Oriented Comput. Appl. 10(4): 365-389 (2016)
• R. Casado, J. Tuya, M. Younas, "Evaluating the effectiveness of the abstract transaction model in testing Web services transactions", Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp. 27(4): 765-781 (2015)
• H. Fan, F.K. Hussain, M. Younas, O.K. Hussain "An integrated personalization framework for SaaS-based cloud services", Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 53, 2015
• R. Casado, M. Younas "Emerging trends and technologies in big data processing", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, (2014)
• A.M. Alhomoud, I. Awan, J.F. Pagna Disso, M. Younas "A Next-Generation Approach to Combating Botnets", IEEE Computer 46(4): 62-66 (2013)
• M. Younas, I. Awan "Mobility management scheme for context-aware transactions in pervasive and mobile cyberspace", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2012
• R. Casado, M. Younas, J. Tuya "Multi-dimensional criteria for testing web services transactions", Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 2013
• I. Nafea, M. Younas, R. Holton, I. Awan "A Priority-Based Admission Control Scheme for Commercial Web Servers", International Journal of Parallel Programming, Vol. 42(5), 2014
• G. Mostefaoui, M. Younas, P. Brezillon "Introduction to the special issue on service provisioning in the Web and Mobile environments", The Knowledge Engineering Review, Vol. 29, 2014
• T. Oda, A. Barolli, E. Spaho, L. Barolli, F. Xhafa, M. Younas "Effects of population size for location-aware node placement in WMNs: evaluation by a genetic algorithm-based approach", Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Vol. 18(2), 2014
• I. Elayyadi, S. Benbernou, M. Ouziri, M. Younas "A tensor-based distributed discovery of missing association rules on the cloud", Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 35, 2014
• T-M Gronli, G. Ghinea, M. Younas "Context-aware and automatic configuration of mobile devices in cloud-enabled ubiquitous computing", Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Vol. 18(4), 2014
• F. Daniel, M. Younas "Mobile Web and service applications: guest editors' introduction", Service Oriented Computing and Applications, Vol. 6(4), 2012
• E. Spaho, K. Umezaki, L. Barolli, F. Xhafa, M. Younas "A fuzzy-based reliability system for knowledge sharing between robots in P2P JXTA-overlay platform", Cluster Computing, 2012
• R. Casado, J. Tuya, M. Younas "Evaluating the effectiveness of the abstract transaction model in testing web services transactions", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2012
• L. Barolli, E. Spaho, F.Xhafa, Mu. Younas "Application of SmartBox end-device for medical care using JXTA-Overlay P2P system", Journal of Computing, 2013
• M. Younas, S.K. Mostefaoui "A new model for context-aware transactions in mobile services", International Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 2011, DOI 10.1007/s00779-011-0369-1
• D.R.W. Holton, M. Younas, I.U. Awan "Priority scheduling of requests to web portals", The Journal of Systems and Software (2011), doi:10.1016/j.jss.2011.03.074
• R. Casado, J. Tuya, C. Godart, M. Younas "Test case design for transactional flows using a dependency-based approach", International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management, 2012
• M.S. Sagar, D. Duce, M. Younas "The Oea Framework for Class-Based Object Oriented Style JavaScript for Web Programming" International Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces, Elsevier Science, Vol. 31 (5), 2009, pp.894-905
• R. Holton, I. Nafea, M. Younas, I. Awan "A Class-based Scheme for E-Commerce Web Servers: Formal Specification and Performance Evaluation", International Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier Science, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2009, pp. 455-460
• W-L Lin, C-C Lo, K-M Chao, M. Younas, "Consumer-Centric QoS-aware Selection of Web Services", Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Elsevier Science, Vol. 74 (2), 2008, pp. 211-231
• M. Younas, I. Awan, K-M Chao, J-Y Chung "Priority Scheduling Service for E-Commerce Web Servers", Journal of Information Systems and E-Business Management, Springer, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2008, pp. 69-82
• S.K. Mostefaoui, M. Younas, "Context-oriented and Transaction-based Service Provisioning", International Journal of Web and Grid Services (IJWGS), Vol. 3, No. 2, 2007. pp. 194-218
• P. Wang, K-M Chao, C-L Huang, C-C Lo, M. Younas, "A Fuzzy Outranking Approach in Risk Analysis of Web Service Security", Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2007. pp. 47-55
• M. Younas, K-M Chao, P. Wang, C-L Huang, "QoS-aware Mobile Service Transactions in Wireless Environment", Concurrency: Practice and Experience, Wiley, Vol. 19, No. 8, 2007, pp. 1219-1236
• Y-L Hedley, M. Younas, A. James, "CCReSD: Concept-based Categorisation of Hidden Web Databases", International Journal of High performance Computing and Networking, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2007
• M. Younas, I. Awan, D. Duce, "An Efficient Composition of Web Services with Active Network Support", International Journal of Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier Science, Vol.31, No. 4, November 2006, pp. 859-869
• Y-L Hedley, M. Younas, A. James, M. Sanderson, "Sampling, Information Extraction and Summarisation of Hidden Web Databases", International Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier Science, Vol.59, No. 3, 2006, pp. 213-230
• C-L Huang, C-C Lo, K-M Chao, M. Younas, "Reaching consensus: A moderated fuzzy web services discovery method", International Journal of Information and Software Technology, Vol. 48, Issue 6, June 2006, pp 410-423, Elsevier Publishers
• K-M Chao, M. Younas, N. Godwin, P-C Sun, "Using Automated Negotiation for Grid Services", International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, Vol. 13, Number 2, April 2006, Springer, pp. 141–150
• M. Younas, K-M Chao, "A Tentative Commit Protocol for Composite Web Services", International Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Elsevier Science, Vol 72(7), 2006, pp. 1226-1237
• K-M Chao M. Younas, N. Griffiths, "BPEL4WS-based Coordination of Grid Services in Cooperative Design", Computers in Industry, 57 (2006), pp 778-786, Elsevier Publishers
• Y. Li, X. Lu, K-M Chao, Y. Huang, M. Younas, "The Realization of Service-Oriented e-Marketplaces", Journal of Information Systems Frontiers, 2006, Springer Publishers, Vol. 8(4), September 2006, pp. 307-319
• M. Younas, K-M Chao, C. Laing,"Composition of Mismatched Web Services in Distributed Service Oriented Design Activities", International Journal of Advanced Engineering Informatics, Vol. 19 (2) , April 2005, Elsevier Publishers, pp. 143-153
• I.Awan, M. Younas "Improving the Network Transmission Cost of Differentiated Web Services" International Journal of Simulation: Systems, Science and Technology, Vol. 6, No.3-4, February 2005, UK Simulation Society, pp. 82-89
• M. Younas, I. Awan, K-M Chao "Network-Centric Strategy for Mobile Transactions", International Journal of Interconnection Networks (JOIN), Vol. 5, No. 3, 2004, pp. 329-350.
• M. Younas, B. Eaglestone, K-M Chao "A Low Latency Resilient Protocol for E-Business Transactions", International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, Vol.1, No.3, 2004, pp. 278-296
• M. Younas, K-M Chao, R. Anane, A. James, C-F Tsai, "Transaction Oriented Engineering Design and Formal Specification: A Multi-Agent Approach", Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science, Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2003, pp. 57-70
• M. Younas, R. Iqbal, "Developing Collaborative Editing Applications using Web Services", IEEE Distributed Systems Online Journal of Collaborative Computing, Vol. 4, No. 9, October 2003
• K-M Chao, C.Laing, R. Anane, M. Younas, P. Norman, "Multiple Evolutionary Agents for Decision Support", Transactions of the Society for Design & Process Science (SDPS), Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2003, pp. 39-56

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Conferences/Workshops

• Q. A. Mirza, I. Awan, M. Younas, "A Cloud-Based Energy Efficient Hosting Model for Malware Detection Framework", IEEE GLOBECOM 2018 Conference
• G. Mesfin, T-M Grønli, G. Ghinea, M. Younas "Usability of Composing REST Services on Smartphones", IEEE AINA 2017 Conference
• M. Eisa, M. Younas, K. Basu, H. Zhu "Trends and Directions in Cloud Service Selection", The IEEE Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE 2016), Oxford, United Kingdom, March 29 - April 2, 2016.
• M. T. González-Aparicio, M. Younas, J. Tuya, R. Casado "A New Model for Testing CRUD Operations in a NoSQL Database", IEEE AINA 2016 Conference
• K. S. Lorentzen, T-M. Grønli, G. Ghinea, M. Younas, M. Satpathy "Sensors in Your Clothes: Design and Development of a Prototype", MobiWIS 2016, Springer LNCS
• W.F. Mesfin, T-M. Gronli, G. Ghinea, M. Younas "A Mobile Money Solution for Illiterate Users", The 2015 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services (MS 2015), June 27-July 2, 2015, New York City, NY, USA
• H. Zhu, B. Yousef, M. Younas "Evaluation of a Tenant Level Checkpointing Technique for SaaS Applications" The 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2015), June 27-July 2, 2015, New York City, NY, USA
• H. Zhu, I. Bayley, M. Younas, D.E. Lightfoot, B. Yousef, D. Liu "Big SaaS: The Next Step beyond Big Data", The 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2015), June 27-July 2, 2015, New York City, NY, USA
• M. Lehmann, A. Biorn-Hansen, G. Ghinea, T-M. Gronli, M. Younas "Data Analysis as a Service: An Infrastructure for Storing and Analyzing the Internet of Things" The 12th International Conference Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis 2015), August 2015, LNCS 9228, Springer 2015, Rome, Italy
• B.O. Apduhan, M. Younas, T. Uchibayashi "Improving Reliability and Availability of IaaS Services in Hybrid Clouds" The 15th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2015), June 2015, LNCS 9155, Springer 2015, Banff, AB, Canada
• S. Zahed, I. Awan, A.J. Cullen, M. Younas "Performance Evaluation of Cognitive Radio Networks under Licensed and Unlicensed Spectrum Bands" The 28th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2014), May 13-16, Victoria, BC, Canada
• T-M Gronli, J. Hansen, G. Ghinea, M. Younas "Mobile Application Platform Heterogeneity: Android vs Windows Phone vs iOS vs Firefox OS", The 28th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2014), May 13-16, Victoria, BC, Canada
• I. Nafea, M. Younas "Improving the Performance and Reliability of Mobile Commerce in Developing Countries" The 11th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS 2014), August 27-29, 2014, LNCS 8640, Springer 2014, Barcelona, Spain
• I. Awan, M. Younas, W. Naveed "Modelling QoS in IoT Applications" The 17th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS 2014), September 10-12, 2014. IEEE Computer Society 2014, Salerno, Italy
• B. Yousef, H. Zhu, M. Younas "Tenant Level Checkpointing of Meta-data for Multi-tenancy SaaS", The 8th IEEE International Symposium on Service Oriented System Engineering (SOSE 2014), April 7-11, 2014, Oxford, UK
• T-M. Gronli, J. Hansen, G. Ghinea, M. Younas "Context-Aware and Cloud Based Adaptation of the User Experience" Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2013), March 2013, Barcelona, Spain
• E. Spaho, M. Ikeda, L. Barolli, F. Xhafa, M. Younas, M. Takizawa "Performance Evaluation of OLSR and AODV Protocols in a VANET Crossroad Scenario" Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2013), March 2013, Barcelona, Spain
• R. Casado, J. Tuya, M. Younas "Testing the reliability of web services transactions in cooperative applications" Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2012), March 2012, Riva, Trento, Italy
• M. Younas, L. Barolli, M. Ikeda "Failure Resilient Criteria for Mobile Web Services Transactions" Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT 2012), IEEE CS, Bucharest, Romania, September 2012
• K. Umezaki, E. Spaho, L. Barolli, F. Xhafa, M. Younas, J. Iwashige "An Integrated Fuzzy-based Trustworthiness System for P2P Communications in JXTA-Overlay" Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Broadband, Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA 2012), IEEE CS, November 2012, Victoria, Canada
• R. Casado, J. Tuya, M. Younas "An Abstract Transaction Model for Testing the Web Services Transactions" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2011), July 4-9, 2011. Washington, DC, USA
• N. Kryvinska, C. Strauss, M. Younas, D. van Thanh "A Generic Approach to the Services Delivery in Enterprise eBusiness Platforms" Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Web and Mobile Information Services (WAMIS 2011), IEEE CS Press, 22-25 March 2011, Singapore
• R. Casado, J. Tuya, M. Younas, "A Framework to Test Advanced Web Services Transactions," Proc. Of the IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), March 21-25, 2011, Berlin, Germany
• K. Basu, M. Younas "A framework for peer-to-peer video streaming over WiMax" Procedia CS 5, Elsevier, 2011
• M.Younas, S.K. Mostéfaoui "Context-aware Mobile Services Transactions" 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2010), Perth, Australia, April 2010
• I. Nafea, D.R.W. Holton, M. Younas, I. Awan “Synthesis of Performance Management Mechanisms in Modern E-Commerce Services”, Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS 2010), ACM SIGWEB and SIGKDD, Nov. 8-10, 2010, Paris, France
• R. Casado, J. Tuya, M. Younas "Testing Long-lived Web Services Transactions using a Risk-based Approach" The 10th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2010), IEEE CS, Zhangjiajie, China, July 14–15, 2010
• I. Nafea, D.R.W. Holton, M. Younas, I. Awan "A Formal Approach to Investigate the Performance of Modern E-commerce Services" 17th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Applications (ASMTA 2010), Cardiff, UK, June 14-16, 2010, LNCS 6148
• R. Holton, I. Awan, M. Younas "Investigating Interactions between Clients and Server in the Performance Analysis of E-Commerce Systems" 5th International Symposium on Web and Mobile Information Services (WAMIS-09), IEEE CS Press, Bradford, UK, May 26-29, 2009
• D.R.W. Holton, I.U. Awan, M. Younas "The Role of Client Behaviour in the Performance Analysis of eCommerce Systems" 24th UK Performance Engineering Workshop (UKPEW), July 2008, London, UK
• M. Younas, I. Awan, R. Holton, D. Duce, "A P2P Network Protocol for Efficient Choreography of Web Services", The IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-07), Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007
• N. Griffiths, K-M Chao, M. Younas, "Fuzzy Trust for Peer-to-Peer Systems", Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) Workshops, July 2006, Lisboa, Portugal
• M. Younas, K-M Chao, C-C Lo, Y. Li , "An Efficient Transaction Commit Protocol for Composite Web Services", The IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2006), April 2006, Vienna, Austria
• W-L Lin, C-C Lo, K-M Chao, M. Younas "Fuzzy Consensus on QoS in Web Services Discovery", The IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2006), April 2006, Vienna, Austria
• M. Younas, I. Awan, and K-M Chao "Efficient scheduling of vital e-commerce requests" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on E-Business Engineering, October 2006, Shanghai, China, pp 496-503
• C. Cooper, D. Duce, M. Younas, W. Li, M. Sagar, G. Blair, G. Coulson, P. Grace, "The Open Overlays Collaborative Workspace Environment", In Proceedings of the UK E-Science All Hands Meeting, September 2005, Nottingham,UK
• G. Coulson, P. Grace, G. Blair, B. Porter, W. Cai, D. Duce, C. Cooper, M. Younas, M. Sagar, W.Li, "Open Overlay Support for the Divergent Grid", In Proceedings of the UK E-Science All Hands Meeting Meeting, September 2005, Nottingham,UK
• Y. Li, K-M Chao, M. Younas, Y. Huang, X. Lu, "Modeling e-Marketplaces with Multi-Agents Web," The 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE CS Press, July 2005, Fukuoka, Japan
• M. Younas, K-M Chao, R. Anane, S. Y. Yan, P. J. Lovett, N. Godwin, "Grid Services Mediation", The IEEE 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, March 2005, Tamkang University, Taiwan
• I. Awan, M. Younas, "Differential Treatment of Web Services-based Collaborative Applications", The 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, May 2005, Coventry, UK
• Y-L Hedley, M. Younas, A. James,"Categorisation of Hidden Web Databases Through Concept Specificity and Coverage", International Workshop on Web and Mobile Information Systems (WAMIS), IEEE CS, March 2005, Taipei, Taiwan
• R. Anane, Y. Li, C-F Tsai, K-M Chao, and M. Younas,"An Agent-based Compositional Framework", The Seventh Asia Pacific Web Conference, Springer LNCS, March 2005, Shanghai, China
• K-M Chao, M. Younas, C-C Lo, T-H Tan,"Fuzzy Matchmaking for Web Services", The IEEE 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA) Workshop, March 2005, Tamkang University, Taiwan
• Y-L Hedley, M. Younas, A. James, M. Sanderson, "A Two-Phase Sampling Technique to Improve the Accuracy of Categorisation of Hidden Web Databases", 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE04), Springer LNCS, November 2004, Brisbane, Australia
• Y-L Hedley, M. Younas, A. James, M. Sanderson, "A Two-Phase Sampling Technique for Hidden Web Database Documents", Proceeding of the 6th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM), November 2004, Washington, DC, USA
• N. Shah, K-M Chao, M. Younas, C. Laing, "Exception Diagnosis in Grid Computing", Proc. of 2004 IEEE International Conference on System, Man, and Cybernetic, October 2004, Hague, Netherlands
• Y-L Hedley, M. Younas, A. James, M. Sanderson, "Query-Related Information Extraction of Hidden Web Documents", Proc. of 27th International ACM SIGIR Conference, July 2004, Sheffield, UK
• I.Awan, M. Younas, "Differentiated Scheduling to Improve Web Services Performance", 20th Annual UK Performance Engineering Workshop (UKPEW '04), July 2004, Bradford, UK, pp. 104 -113
• R. Anane, K-M Chao M. Younas, "Learning Object Mediation", Proceedings of European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS 04), July 2004, Tunisia
• M. Younas, I. Awan, K-M Chao, "Performance Analysis of Preemptive Resume Scheduling in Mobile Transactions", 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), IEEE CS Press, March 29-31, 2004, Fukuoka, Japan
• I. Awan, M. Younas, "Analytical Modelling of Priority Commit Protocol for Reliable Web Applications", 19th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2004), March 2004, Nicosia, Cyprus
• Y-L Hedley, M. Younas, A. James, "A TNATS Approach to Hidden Web Documents", Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Distributed Computing, Internet Technology, Springer LNCS, December 2004, India
• M. Younas, K-M Chao, N. Griffiths, R. Anane, I. Awan, "Quality Driven Web Services in Mobile Computing", 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-2004) Workshop, IEEE CS, March 2004, Tokyo, Japan
• K-M Chao, M. Younas, N. Griffiths, I. Awan, R. Anane, "Analysis of Grid Service Composition with BPEL4WS", 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), IEEE CS Press, March 29-31, 2004, Fukuoka, Japan
• M. Younas, K-M Chao, C. Laing, "SODA: Service Oriented Design Activities", 18th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2004), IEEE CS Press, May 2004, Xiamen, China, pp. 419-424
• R. Mahon, K-M Chao M. Younas, N. Griffiths, "Cooperative Design in Grid Services", 18th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2004) May 2004, IEEE CS Press, Xiamen, China, pp. 406-412
• M. Younas, I. Awan, "Efficient Commit Processing of Web Transactions using Priority Scheduling Mechanism", 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2003), IEEE CS Press, December, 2003, Roma, Italy
• M. Younas, K-M Chao, R. Anane, "M-Commerce Transaction Management with Multi-Agent Support", 17th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), IEEE CS Press, March 27-29, 2003, Xi'an, China
• K-M Chao, M. Younas, R. Anane, C-F Tsai, V-W Soo, "Degree of Satisfaction in Agent Negotiation", IEEE Conference on Electronic Commerce (CEC'03), Newport Beach, California, USA, June 24-27, 2003, pp. 68-75
• R. Anane, K-M Chao, R. Anthony, M. Younas, "Load Sharing in Cluster Service Provision", 6th International Workshop on Network-based Information Systems (NbiS), IEEE CS Press, September 2003, Prague, Czech Republic
• M. Younas, B. Eaglestone, "A Formal Verification Strategy for Crash Recovery in Web-Database Applications", Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering - Workshops, IEEE Computer Society Press, December 11-14, 2002, Singapore, pp. 113 - 119
• M. Younas, K-M Chao, R. Anane, A. James, "Multi-Agent Transaction Model for Web-based Design Activities", 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD), September, 2002, Brazil, pp. 258-263
• M. Younas, B. Eaglestone, "Ensuring Recovery for SACReD Web Transactions in the E-Commerce Applications", 13th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), Sept. 2002, Aix en Provence, France, Springer LNCS, pp.40-49
• R. Anane, M. Younas, C-F Tsai, K-M Chao, "Agent-based Transactional Framework for the Supply Chain", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, IEEE Computer Society Press, November 2002, Beijing, China
• R. Anane, K-M Chao, M. Younas, "Agent Cooperation and Monitoring on the Internet" Second International Workshop on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC 2002) in cooperation with VLDB2002, August 2002, Hong Kong, pp.153-157
• M. Younas, N. H. Shah, K-M Chao, "A Multi-Agent Approach to SACReD Transactions for E-Commerce Applications", 3rd International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-WEB), Sept. 2002, Aix en Provence, France, Springer LNCS, pp. 119-128
• M. Younas, B. Eaglestone, R. Holton, "A Review of Multidatabase Transactions on The Web: From the ACID to the SACReD", 17th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD), July 2000, Exeter, UK, Springer LNCS, 140-152
• M. Younas, B. Eaglestone, R. Holton, "A Formal Treatment of the SACReD Protocol for Multidatabase Web Transactions", 13th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), September 2000, Greenwich, London, Springer LNCS, pp. 899-908

Professional Activities

Chairing International Conferences

• The IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)
• The IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC)
• The IEEE International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications (BigDataService)
• The IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE)
• The International Conference Big Data Innovations and Applications (Innovate-Data)
• The IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA)
• The International Conference on Open and Big Data (OBD)
• The IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE)
• The IEEE International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)
• The International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis)
• The International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS)
• The International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NbIS)
• The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS)
• The IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA)
• The IEEE International Conference on CSCW in Design (CSCWD)

Programme Committees:

Dr. Younas has served on the programme committees of a number of international conferences and symposia/workshops. Some of these include:

• The IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC)
• The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC)
• The IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)
• The ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)
• The IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS)
• The ACM International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
• The IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA)
• The IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)
• The IEEE International Conference on CSCW in Design (CSCWD)
• The IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE)
• The IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud)
• The IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom)
• The IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC)
• The IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom)

Journals: Editorial Board (Present/Past)

• International Journal of Service-Oriented Computing and Applications, Springer
• International Journal of Web Information Systems, Emerald
• Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, Springer
• International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Emerald
• Journal for STEM Education, The American Institute of Mathematical Sciences
• ACM SIGecom Exchanges

Journals: Review Services

• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
• IEEE Transactions on Big Data
• ACM Computing Surveys
• IEEE Computer
• Communications of ACM
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
• IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
• IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
• ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
• IEEE IT Professional
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
• ACM Transactions on Storage

Journals: Guest Editorship

• Journal of Computer and System Sciences
• The Knowledge Engineering Review
• Journal of Systems and Software
• Journal of Network and Computer Applications
• Journal of Expert Systems and Applications
• Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems
• Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces
• The Information Systems Frontiers
• Journal of Information and Software Technology
• Journal of World Wide Web - Internet and Web Information Systems
• The Cluster Computing - The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications
• Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
• Journal of Computing

Funding Councils: Membership

• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC ), Canada
• Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France
• The Royal Society, UK
• Austrian Science Fund, Austria

PhD Supervision

Dr. Younas supervises PhD students in different areas of research. If you are interested in coming to Oxford and doing PhD, MPhil or MSc, please send him an email.

PhD thesis supervised in the areas:

• Service selection and provisioning in cloud computing
• Mobile payment and value added services
• Transaction management in cloud and big data
• Fault tolerance and failure recovery in cloud computing
• Semantic framework for regulatory compliance support
• Performance management of web servers in e-commerce services
• Testing of advanced web services transactions
• Information extraction in hidden/deep web

PhD thesis examined in the areas::

• Workload in cloud and clustered computing
• Quality of experience in wearable computing
• Web services and SOA
• Transaction management in web services
• Multi-agents and web-databases
• Cloud computing and context-awareness
• Context-aware pervasive computing applications
• Trust management and discovery of cloud services
• Modelling of distributed applications
• QoS-based cloud service management
• Management of web services communities
• Resource management in cloud environment
• Web services in ubiquitous computing
• Ontologies and knowledge management in databases
• Web services in mobile cloud
• SLA management in cloud computing

Teaching: Courses/Subjects

Dr. Younas was the Subject Coordinator for the MSc in Data Analytics and MSc in Data Analytics for Government. These courses cover theory and practice of computing, mathematical and statistical models, techniques and technologies related to (big) data analytics.

He teaches on the following subjects (modules):

• Data Science
• Cloud Computing and IoT
• Web technnologies
• Distributed systems
• Database Systems
• E-Business Systems
• Software project management
• Information Systems