Research Topics

My research activities focus on:

• Service oriented Architecture
• Web service technology
• WS-SecurityPolicy standard
• Semantic Web service security policy modeling
• Semantic Web service security policy matching

PhD Thesis

• Title: WS-SecurityPolicy based approach for semantic modeling and matching of Web service security policies.
• Abstract: The lack of semantics in WS-SecurityPolicy standard hampers the effectiveness of matching security policies. To resolve this problem,we present a semantic approach for modeling and matching Web service security policies. The approach consists in the transformation of WS-SP into an OWL-DL
  ontology and the definition of a set of rules which automatically generate semantic relations that can exist between the provider and requestor security requirements.We show how these relations lead to more correct and refined matching of security policies.We also describe the implementation details of our approach and its validation through a real-world use case.
• Keywords : WS-SecurityPolicy standard, Security policy ontology, Semantic security policy matching, Semantic comparison relations, SWRL rules.
• Supervisors: Dr. Tarak Chaari, Prof. Maher Ben Jemaa, and Prof. Mohamed Jmaiel.

External reviewer of conferences and seminars:

• As a PC member
  • AICCSA 2017 : ‘14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications’, 30 October- 3 November 2017, Hammamet-Tunisia.
• As a sub-reviewer
  • ESBM 2017 : ‘The third edition of the International Conference of Engineering Sciences for Biology and Medicine’, 4-7 May 2017, Sfax-Tunisia.
  • NETYS 2016 : ‘The 4th Edition of The International Conference on NETworked sYStems’, 18-20 May 2016, Marrakech, Maroc.
  • IWCMC 2015 Wireless Sensor Symposium : ‘ACM International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, Wireless Sensor Symposium’, 24 -27 August 2015, Croatia.
  • CAL 2013 : ‘Conférence francophone sur les Architectures Logicielles’, 30-31 May 2013, Toulouse-France.
  • AROSA 2012 : ‘Adaptive and Reconfigurable Service-Oriented and Component-based Applications and Architectures’, 25-27 June 2012, Toulouse-France.
  • SECTEST 2011 : ‘The Second International Workshop on Security Testing’, 25 Mars 2011, Berlin-Germany.
  • Notere 2010 : La 10ème Conférence Internationale sur les NOuvelles TEchnologies de la REpartition, 31 May-2 June 2010, Tozeur-Tunisia.
  • ICWIT'09 : The Second International Conference on Web and Information Technologies, 12- 14 June 2009, Kerkennah islands-Tunisia.
  • CRATT? 2009 : Le 3ème Colloque de Recherche Appliquée et de Transfert de Technologie, 11- 12 November 2009, ISET Radès-Tunisia.
    

Publications

International Journal Papers

• Monia Ben Brahim ,Tarak Chaari, Maher Ben Jemaa and Mohamed Jmaiel. The SemSPM approach: Fine integration of WS-SecurityPolicy semantics to enhance matching security policies in service oriented architectures. In Service Oriented Computing and Applications, pages 337-364, 2016. Springer [ BibTeX | DOI ]

International Conference Papers

• Monia Ben Brahim ,Tarak Chaari, and Mohamed Jmaiel. XPath translation to enhance the semantic matching of fine-grained Web service security policies. In Proceedings of of the 12th IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), pages 1-8, 2015. IEEE Computer Society [ BibTeX | DOI ]
• Monia Ben Brahim ,Tarak Chaari, Maher Ben Jemaa and Mohamed Jmaiel. Semantic matching of of Web services security policies. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRiSIS 2012), pages 1-8, Cork, Ireland, October 2012. IEEE Computer Society [ BibTeX | DO]
• Monia Ben Brahim , Maher Ben Jemaa and Mohamed Jmaiel. Security Mapping To Enhance Matching Fine-Grained Security Policies. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies (NDT 2010), Communications in Computer and Information Science, pages 183-196, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2010. Springer [ BibTeX | DOI ]
• Monia Ben Brahim, Maher Ben Jemaa, and Mohamed Jmaiel. Improving Java Card Grid Dependability with Fault Prevention and Fault Tolerance. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Embedded Systems and Critical Applications, Tunis, Tunisia, May 2008. [ BibTeX | PDF ]

International Workshop Papers

• Monia Ben Brahim , Tarak Chaari, Maher Ben Jemaa, and Mohamed Jmaiel. Semantic matching of ws-securitypolicy assertions. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Non-Functional Properties and SLA Management in Service-Oriented Computing (NFPSLAM-SOC'11) held in conjunction With the International Conference on Service oriented Computing (ICSOC?11), Paphos, Cyprus, 2011. Springer. [ BibTeX | DOI ]
  

National Conference Papers

• Monia Ben Brahim, Feten Baccar, Maher Ben Jemaa, and Mohamed Jmaiel. Approche basée composition pour les applications sur une grille de cartes Java. Septième journées scientifiques des jeunes chercheurs en Génie Electrique et Informatique GEI?2007- Monastir- Tunisie du 26 au 28 Mars.[ PDF ]

Educational activities

Teaching assistant

• Since 2012: The Higher Institute of Computing Sciences and Multimedia of Gabes-Tunisia
  • Data Base level 1
  • Operating System level 1
  • Web Development level 1
  • Web Development level 2
  • C Programming level 1
  • Object oriented programming: Java level 1
  • Object oriented programming: Java level 2
  • Information system security level 1
• 2007-2011: The National School of Engineers of Sfax,Department of the Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (DGIMA), University of Sfax-Tunisia
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Information system security level 1
  • C Programming level 2
• 2006-2007: The Higher Institute of Electronics and Communication, University of Sfax-Tunisia
  
  • C Programming level 1
  • C Programming level 2