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        <article-title>RIF'22</article-title>
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        <year>2022</year>
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      <title>Current edition</title>
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        <title>A Proactive Formal Approach for Microservice-based Applications Auto-Scaling</title>
        <p>Souheir Merkouche and Chafia Bouanaka ………………………………………………………………………….15</p>
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        <title>Formal design and verification of cryptographic circuits: Application to symmetric block ciphers</title>
        <p>Abir Bitat, Salah Merniz ………………………….………………………………………………………………………….29</p>
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      <title>Past editions</title>
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        <title>Quality-driven Formal Modelling of the Travel Planner Application</title>
        <p>Fatma Kachi and Chafia Bouanaka ……………………………………………………………………………………..48</p>
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        <title>Effect of Distance Metric and Feature Scaling on KNN algorithm while classifying X-rays</title>
        <p>Ishan Arora, Namit Khanduja and Mayank Bansal………………………………………………………………61</p>
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        <title>Service Modeling and Architecting for Self-Adaptive IoT-Based Systems, Fatima Zohra</title>
        <p>Merabet and Djamel Benmerzoug………………………….…………………………………………………………..76</p>
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        <title>MAM Security Enhancement: Proposed Control Mechanism</title>
        <p>Radhia Khellaf, Souheila Boudouda, Salima Hacini….………………………………………………………….88</p>
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        <title>Semantic Approaches Survey for Job Recommender Systems</title>
        <p>Assia Brek and Zizette Boufaida …………………………….………………………………………………………..101
RIF (Seminary of Computer Science Research at Feminine) is held every year since 2012 by
the women's research team of LIRE Laboratory (Laboratoire d’Informatique REpartie) at
Constantine 2-Abdelhamid Mehri University in Algeria. It is a scientific event open to
researchers to present their research works in different topics and to exchange their
theoretical and applied results.</p>
        <p>The 11th edition of RIF seminary calls upon female experts from different fields of emerging
technologies that can hold business evolution. These technologies such as Augmented
Reality, Industry 4.0, Blockchains and Robots, can substantially influence businesses
transforming jobs, ways of communicating, as well as modes of production and distribution.
This year, RIF2022 adheres to the idea that technology evolution will eventually renovate
business practices. RIF acts as a major forum for the presentation of innovative ideas,
approaches, developments, and research projects in the fields of emerging information and
communication technologies. The seminary contributions are devoted to the following
fields, but is not limited to:
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        <p>Modern and Emerging Systems (Internet of Things, Fog Systems, Cloud Systems)
Cyber-Physical Systems (Industry 4.0, Blockchains, Robots, Augmented Reality)
Novel Methods and Algorithms in Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning and Data
Sciences)
The eight papers in this special proceeding cover a range of aspects around the seminary
theme, from developing new intelligent systems to formal specification and verification.
Three of these papers were presented at this year event while five of them were chosen
among the seminary past editions of 2020 and 2021. Each of these revised papers has
undergone another full double blind peer review, prior to being selected for this special
proceeding.</p>
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        <title>In the first paper Blockchain-Based Architecture Supporting Hypertension Remote</title>
        <p>Monitoring in a Cloud Environment, Insaf boumezbeur, Karim Zarour and Takieddine
Bouklouha try to establish and maintain connections among healthcare providers and
between healthcare providers and patients with hypertension; that is considered the first
chronic disease in Algeria. They presented an architectural approach supporting remote
monitoring and hypertension measurement control. This architecture allows the sharing,
the fast and supple exchange of information and opens new perspectives of remote
monitoring in Algeria. Besides helping save costs, encouraging the control of patients at
their homes may also reduce loneliness and the stress they suffer during a hospital stay.
Application auto-scaling is a fault-sensitive operation, a wrong scaling can lead to a loss of
money (resources rented without being used), or also to a reduction of the quality of service
offered by the application (lack of rented resources). In their work, A Proactive Formal</p>
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        <title>Approach for Microservice-based Applications Auto-Scaling, Souheir Merkouche and Chafia</title>
        <p>Bouanaka use the weak and strong dependencies concept to expect the future state of the
system. To formally model the proposed approach, they combine high-level Petri Nets and
plausible Petri Nets. The plausible Petri Nets are suitable for decision-making, when several
adaptation plans are available, they allow identifying a compromise plan when the
autoscaling concerns different qualities of the system.</p>
        <p>Cryptographic circuits have become indispensable in most systems where security is the
main criteria. That is why it Abir Bitat and Salah Merniz were interested to verify the
correctness of their design. They proposed, in Formal design and verification of
cryptographic circuits: Application to symmetric block ciphers, a formal methodology that
combines two techniques, the SAT Solver technique, which is automatic and has been used
to verify the correctness of combinational logic parts; and, the induction technique, which
has been used for sequential logic parts. The proposed approach consists of using the
functional Hardware Description Language (HDL) Lava to describe both behavioural and
structural aspects of a circuit, using Finite State Machines (FSMs). And then to verify the
specification and check the equivalence of the implementation against it, to prove the
circuit’s correctness.</p>
        <p>Fatma Kachi and Chafia Bouanaka proposed a formal approach for modelling and analysing
quality-driven self-adaptive systems that evolve under uncertainty while still preserving and
assuring the continuous satisfaction of an acceptable quality of service. They demonstrated
through the Quality-driven Formal Modelling of the Travel Planner Application paper the
generality and effectiveness of our approach. The findings show how HLPN can be used to
model and gather the monitored data to facilitate the autonomous and adaptive service
replication decision-making. This example demonstrates how service-based systems can be
adapted using a new formalism such as our Petri net-based approach.</p>
        <p>Many Machine learning and Deep learning algorithms are being employed in medical
imaging to spot diseases. Through the Effect of Distance Metric and Feature Scaling on KNN
algorithm while classifying X-rays paper, Ishan Arora, Namit Khanduja and Mayank Bansal
have constructed a k-NN model that performs classification by considering various distance
metrics and feature scaling so to enhance the classification accuracy. Their Experiments
were administrated on some public medical datasets collected from the Kaggle Machine
Learning repository. Experiment results showed that the k-NN model works well with
Canberra distance metric and Robust feature scaling but is more efficient than widely used
Euclidean distance and standard feature scaling.</p>
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        <title>In their research Service Modeling and Architecting for Self-Adaptive IoT-Based Systems,</title>
        <p>Fatima Zohra Merabet and Djamel Benmerzoug advocate the use of the SoS paradigm for
building next-generation services using the IoT. They aim to ensure the self-adaptation of
these complex systems by providing a particular perspective on the evolution of the field of
self-adaptation with a new conception. By extending BPMN, they stress the idea of
adaptation in the design phase, starting from the first step in the BPM (Business Process
Management) life cycle. In addition, they propose a global architecture to ensure the
selfadaptation of the IoT services at run time. Their architecture aims to let the system collect
data about the uncertainties during execution. The system uses this data to resolve
uncertainties, be aware of itself, and adjust and satisfy the changing conditions, especially
the quality-of-service constraints.</p>
        <p>With the advent of the mobile enterprise, the need for a dynamic and flexible security
framework to balance risk and trust becomes urgent. This need has led to the rapid
expansion and growth of enterprise security technologies for mobility. In MAM Security
Enhancement: Proposed Control Mechanism, Radhia Khellaf, Souheila Boudouda, Salima
Hacini analysed the two most used mobile ecosystem management tools (Mobile Device
Management and Mobile Application Management) a security point of view. Moreover,
they propose a protection mechanism which strengthens the security aspect of the Mobile
Device Management. Their mechanism fixes the Mobile Device Management security
vulnerabilities and reduces the impact of attacks. Based on the characteristics of proposed
approach activities, a functional diagram is presented.</p>
        <p>The e-recruitment phenomenon has been widely spread, which led to the increase of job
descriptions online and caused a remarkable growth in the number of jobs seekers sending
their resumes searching for new opportunities. This enormous amount of information
makes finding the appropriate job/candidate a difficult process. Assia Brek and Zizette
Boufaida explored semantic technologies to guide document processing and automatic
matching, improving the job recommendation results. Their research, reported in Semantic</p>
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        <title>Approaches Survey for Job Recommender Systems, is a literature review of the semantic e</title>
        <p>recruitment approaches where they have spotlighted the benefits of exploiting the semantic
technologies in different aspects (information extraction and matching) of this context.
These papers were selected based on the originality, quality, and relevance to the topics.
Each submission was reviewed, at least, by two reviewers. We hope that reading these
papers will inspire you to make your own submissions to future RIF editions.
We are very grateful for the outstanding efforts provided by the Program Committee. The
Program Committee members and reviewers provided excellent support in promptly
reviewing the manuscripts.</p>
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          <title>Conference Program Chairs</title>
          <p>• Faïza Belala, UC2, Algeria
• Fouzia Magra-Benchikha UC2, Algeria
• Zizette Boufaida, UC2, Algeria
Organizing Seminary Chairs
• Wafa Ghemmaz, UC2, Algeria
• Sahar Smaali, UC2, Algeria
• Rachida Boucebsi, UC2, Algeria
• Ilhem Labed, UC2, Algeria
• Adla Bentellis, UC2, Algeria
• Souad Bouaicha, UC2, Algeria
Technical Program Committee
• Dr. Adla Bentellis, UC2, Algeria
• Dr. Afifa Ghenai, UC2, Algeria
• Dr. Aicha Choutri, UC2, Algeria
• Dr. Asma Djellal, ESCF, Algeria
• Dr. Chafia Bouanaka, UC2, Algeria
• Pr. Faiza Belala, UC2, Algeria
• Pr. Fouzia Benchikha, UC2, Algeria
• Dr. Ilhem Labed, UC2, Algeria
• Dr. Kenza bouaroudj, UC2, Algeria
• Dr. Maya Benabdelhafid, ESCF, Algeria
• Dr. Sara Sabba, UC2, Algeria
• Pr. Meriem Belguidoum, UC2, Algeria
• Pr. Nadia Zeghib, UC2, Algeria
• Dr. Nadira Benlahreche, UC2, Algeria
• Dr. Souad Bouaïcha, UC2, Algeria
• Dr. Souheila Boudouda, UC2, Algeria
• Pr. Zizette Boufaida, UC2, Algeria
• Dr. Nacira Chekkai, France
• Dr. Esma Maatougui, Setif 2 University, Algeria
• Dr. Ouassila HIOUAL, Khenchela University, Algeria
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          <title>Miss. Ines Mili</title>
          <p>ALSALAM BANK
ALGERIA AGENCY DIRECTOR
Islamic Digital Finance at Al Salam Bank
Algeria
Dr. Maya BENABDELHAFID Ep SOUILAH
Teacher-Resarcher ESCF of Constantine Algeria
The e-administration in the service of
Constantine ESCF students</p>
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