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On proceedings of international conferences:

  1. 1.       Ayalew Belay: Cellular-Cloud Integration Framework in Support of Real- Time Monitoring and Management of Traffic on the Road: the Case of Ethiopia, 4th International ACM conference on management of Emergent Digital Ecosystem, ACM Proceeding, 2012, pp.189-196;
  2. Dagmawi Lema: Design and Framework of Service by Delegation (SbD) for Enhancing User Interface Usability in Small-handheld Devices (Poster); EuroSys 2011 Doctoral Workshop (April 9 – 13, 2011), Salzburg, Austria;
  3. Dagmawi Lemma and Mulugeta Libsie: Malicious Process Conscious Operating Systems (MPCOS), broadcom, Third International Conference on Broadband Communications, Information Technology & Biomedical Applications (BroadCom 2008), pp.311-317, 2008;
  4. Dawit Bekele: Localization in the Context of a Third World Country, Proceedings of TALN and Recital 2005, Dourdan, France,  pp. 6-10, June 2005;
  5. Surafel Lemma, Dawit Bekele and Girma Berhe: Semantic Description of Multimedia Content Adaptation Web services, Proceedings International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CIS2E 05), December 10-20, Technically Co-Sponsored by  Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) University of Bridgeport, 2005;
  6. Eyob Alemu, Dawit Bekele, Jean-Philippe Babau: MDA Approach for the Development of Embeddable Applications On Communicating Devices, 8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 23 – 27, May 2006;
  7. Dawit Bekele: Multi-lingual Content Management System for E-government applications, African Development Forum, 2005;
  8. Dawit Bekele: Impact of Government Policies on the Development of ICT in Ethiopia, Contemporary Development Issues in Ethiopia, August 17, Kalamazoo, University of Western Michigan, 2001.
  9. Dejene Ejigu, Scuturici M., Brunie L.: Semantic Approach to Context Management and Reasoning in Ubiquitous Context-Aware Systems, In the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM’07), Lyon, France, pp. 500-5005, October 2007;
  10. Dejene Ejigu, Scuturici M., Brunie L.: An Ontology-Based Approach to Context Modeling and Reasoning in Pervasive Computing, Fifth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerComW’07), New York, USA, pp. 14-19, March 2007;
  11. Dejene Ejigu, Scuturici, M., Brunie L., CoCA: A Collaborative Context-Aware Service Platform for Pervasive Computing, Fourth IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, ITNG’07, Las Vegas, USA, pp. 297-302, April 2007;
  12. Scuturici M., Dejene Ejigu: Positioning Support in Pervasive Environments, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS’06), Lyon, France, pp. 19‑26, June 2006;
  13. Chaari T., Dejene Ejigu, Laforest F., Scuturici M.: Modeling and Using Context in Adapting Applications to Pervasive Environments, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS’06), Lyon, France, pp. 111-120, June 2006;
  14. Dessalegn M., Lionel B., Mulugeta L., David C.: “A Latency Hiding Framework for Enhanced Ubiquitous Access to Big Data in a Constrained Digital Ecosystem: Application to Digital Medical Archives.”,  ACM, MEDES’12, October 28-31, 2012, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia;
  15. Dida Midekso: Design Principles for Educationally Configured Software Design Tools, Proceedings of the 1st African Conference on Research in Computer Science, Vol. II, 1992;
  16. Solomon Atnafu, Dessalegn Mequanint, Yigremew Adal: E-Local Governance: A Case Study on Life-Event Services in the Kebeles of the City Government of Addis Ababa, on the Proceedings of the LOG-IN Africa e-local Governance International Conference, Cairo, Egypt, 5th – 6th June 2008.
  17. Fekade GETAHUN, Richard Chbeir: SEMANTIC AWARE RSS QUERY ALGEBRA, 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS-2010). Paris, France, 2010;
  18. Fekade GETAHUN, Richard Chbeir:RSS Merger. In the proceedings of the International Conference Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances EGC 2010. Hammamet, Tunisie, pp.637-638, 2010.
  19. Fekade GETAHUN, Joe Tekli, Richard Chbeir, et al: Relating RSS News/Items. In the 9th International Conference on Web Engineering; ICWE 2009, San Sebastian, Spain: Springer Verlag LNCS, pp.442-45, 2009.
  20. Fekade GETAHUN, Joe Tekli, M. VIVIANI, et al: Towards Semantic-based RSS Merging. In: International Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services., pp.53-64, 2009.
  21. Fekade GETAHUN, Joe Tekli, Richard Chbeir, Solomon Atnafu: Towards Efficient Horizontal Multimedia Database Fragmentation using Semantic-based Predicates Implication. In: 22nd Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD’07), Joao Pessoa, Brazil, ACM SIGMOD DiSC., pp. 68-82, 2007.
  22. Fekade Getahun, Joe Tekli, Solomon Atnafu, Richard Chbeir: The use of semantic-based predicates implication to improve horizontal multimedia database fragmentation; Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on The Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics, MS 2007, Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, September 28, 2007. ACM 2007, ISBN 978-1-59593-782-7; pp. 29-38, MS 2007.
  23. Fitsum Admasu and K. Toennies:  Exploiting 3D Spatial Continuity for Robust Automatic Horizon Matching across Faults, In Proceed¬ings of the IEEE Third International Symposium on 3D Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DPVT),  Chapel Hill, USA, pp. 695–702, 2006.
  24. Fitsum Admasu and K. Toennies:   Multi-scale Bayesian based Horizon Matching across Faults in 3D Seismic Data,  In 28th Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM  2006), Berlin, Germany, pp. 384–393, 2006.
  25. Fitsum Admasu and K. Toennies: Anisotropic 3D Seismic Features for Robust Horizons Correlation across Faults, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2005), volume 2, pages 225-228, September 2005.
  26. Fitsum Admasu and K. Toennies: An Approach towards Automated Fault Interpretations in Seismic Data, In Simulation und Visualisierung, pages 207-219, March 2005.
  27. Fitsum Admasu and K. Toennies: Automatic Method for Correlating Horizons across Faults in 3D Seismic Data, In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Washington DC, July 2004.
  28. Fitsim Admasu and K. Toennies: Model-based Approach to Automatic 3D Seismic Horizons Correlations across Faults,  Simulation und Visualisierung, Magdeburg, March 2004.
  29. Fitsum Admasu, S. Al-Zubi, K. Toennies, N. Bodammer, and H. Hinrichs: Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions from MR Brain Images using the Principles of Fuzzy-Connectedness and Artificial Neuron Networks, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Barcelona, September 2003.
  30. Fitsum Meshesha, Dawit Bekele and Jean-Marc Pierson: Multimedia Content’s Metadata Management for Pervasive Environment, Proceedings International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CIS2E 05), December 10-20, Technically Co-Sponsored by Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) University of Bridgeport, 2005.
  31. Leykun Birhanu, Solomon Atnafu, Fekade Getahun;:Native XML Document Fragmentation Model, The 6th IEEE International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS 2010); 15 – 18 December; Kuala Lumpur; Malaysia.
  32. Mulugeta Libsie and Harald Kosch,:“Content Adaptation of Multimedia Delivery and Indexing using MPEG‑7,” in Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Juan‑les‑Pins, France, pp. 644-646, December 2002.
  33. L. Böszörményi, H. Hellwagner, H. Kosch, Mulugeta Libsie, and S. Podlipnig: “Comprehensive Treatment of Adaptation in Distributed Multimedia Systems in the ADMITS Project,” in Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2002 Conference, Juan Les Pins, France, pp. 429-430, December 2002.
  34. Mulugeta Libsie and H. Kosch,: Video Adaptation using the Variation Factory, in Proceedings of the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2004), Siena (Italy), September 2004.
  35. Y. Afework, Mulugeta Libsie and S. Negash: Preprocessing Toolkit for Amharic Text Categorization, in Proceedings of the 9th Global Information Technology Management Association (GITMA) World Conference, June 22-24, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  36. Zerihun Zewdu, Mieso K. Denko, Mulugeta Libsie: Workload Characterization of Autonomic DBMSs Using Statistical and Data Mining Techniques, WAINA, pp.244-249, 2009 International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, 2009.
  37. Meron Sahlemariam, Mulugeta Libsie, and Daniel Yacob: Concept-Based Automatic Amharic Document Categorization, AMCIS 2009 Proceedings, 2009.
  38. Seid Muhie Yimam and Mulugeta Libsie: TETEYEQ: Amharic Question Answering For Factoid Questions, In Proceedings of Information Retrieval and Information Extraction for Less Resourced Languages Conference (IE-IR-LRL), Donostia, Spain, September 7th, 2009.
  39. Seid Muhie Yimam and Mulugeta Libsie: Amharic Question Answering (AQA), DIR 2010, 10th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop, January 25, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2010.
  40. Zewdu Gebeyehu and Mulugeta Libsie: A Multi-Agent System Framework for Medical Referral Decision Support, The 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, 9-12 December 2008, Sydney, Australia.
  41.  Mohammed Abebe and Sebsibe Hailemariam: “Machine Learning approach for Voiced/Unvoiced/Noise Speech Detection” in the 2013 International Conference on Emerging trends and developments in Science, Management and Technology (ICETD-SMT-2013), Ghaziabad, India, 2013
  42. Jesús Berdún, Eva Vidal, Sebsibe H/Mariam: “Who develops ICT resources in higher education? Applied research and contributions of the university community in developing countries: the case of Wollo University (Ethiopia)”. On VI Congress on University and Cooperation for Development, Spain, 2013
  43. L. Melitia, Gopinath Ganapathy, Sebsibe Hailemariam: “Genetic Algorithm: an Invitable Solution for Query Optimization in Web Mining”, the 7th International Conference on Computer Science and Education (ICCSE), July 2012, Melborn, Australia
  44. Amanuel Zewge, Komminist Weldemariam, Sebsibe Hailemariam, Adolfo Villafiorita, Angelo Susi, Mesfin Belachew: “On the use of Goal-Oriented Methodology for Designing Agriculture Services in Developing Countries” the 4th International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, Oct 2012, Addis Ababa
  45. Yonas Demeke, Sebsibe Hailemariam: “Duration Modeling of Phonemes for Amharic Text to Speech System” the 4th International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, Oct 2012, Addis Ababa
  46.  NirayoHailu, Sebsibe Hailemariam: “Modeling Improved Syllabification Algorithm for Amharic”, the 4th International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, Oct 2012, Addis Ababa
  47. Abraham Zewoudie and Sebsbie Hailemariam: “Enhanced Amharic Speech Recognition System”, IberSpeech 2012, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, SPAIN
  48. Rahul Chitturi, Sebsibe H/Mariam, Rohit Kumar: Rapid methods for Optimal Text Selection, Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, September 2005, Borovets, Bulgaria
  49. Sebsibe Hailemariam, Kishore Prahallad: Extraction of Linguistic Information with the Aid of Acoustic Data to Build Speech Systems, in Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Honolulu, USA, 2007.
  50. Olatunde Abiona, Clement Onime, Stefano Cozzini, Sebsibe Hailemariam: Capacity building for HPC infrastructure setup in Africa: the ICTP experience in IST-Africa, 2011
  51. Getachew Berhan, Tsegaye Tadesse, Solomon Atnafu, Shawndra Hill: Drought Information Mining from Satellite Images for Improved Climate Change Mitigation, Thec 2nd IEEE World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies, Trivandrum, India, 2012; available at

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  1. Mequannint Munye and Solomon Atnafu: Amharic-English Bilingual Web Search Engine; On the 4th ACM International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES’12), October 28-31, 2012, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  2. Henok Sahilu, Solomon Atnafu: Towards Measuring User Query Tendency for Legal Document Retrieval; The 23rd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. JURIX 2010. University of Liverpool, UK, 16 -17 December 2010; Published by IOS Press; ISBN 978-1-60750-681-2 (print); ISBN 978-1-60750-682-9 (online); Volume 223, pp. 167.
  3. Henok Sahilu, Solomon Atnafu: Change-Aware Legal Document Retrieval Model; On the International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital Eco-Systems (MEDES 2010); Bangkok, Thailand, October 26 – 29, 2010. ISBN: 978-1-4503-0047-6.
  4. Solomon Atnafu, Andualem Workneh, Yonnan Getachew: Epidemic and Communicable Disease Surveillance Data Reporting and Medical Cases Communication System; Mobile for Development International Conference (M4D 2010); Uganda, Kampala; 10 – 11 November 2010.
  5. Andualem Workneh, Yonnan Getachew, Gedion Tamene and Solomon Atnafu: “The “ሀለሐ” Virtual Ethiopic Keyboard for Smart Phones” by Mobile for Development International Conference (M4D 2010); Uganda, Kampala; 10 – 11 November 2010.
  6. Getachew Berhan, Solomon Atnafu, Anat Hovav:  Knowledge Discovery from Satellite Images for Drought Monitoring in Food Insecure Areas; 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems; Proceedings of the Sixteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Lima, Peru, August 12-15, 2010; AMCIS-0569-2010.R1.
  7. Tizita Zewde and Solomon Atnafu: Audio Data Model for Multi-criteria Query Formulation and Retrieval; In the Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM2009) – ERPAS2009 (ISBN 78-1-60558-659-5); ISBN 978-1-60558-660-1. 14 – 16 December 2009; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;
  8. Dawit Bulcha; Solomon Atnafu, D Coquil, L. Brunie, R. Chbeir:  Salient-Object-Based Image Query by Visual Content;  On IEEE International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet Based Systems (SITIS’05), Yaoundé (Cameroun).   2005.
  9. Shiferaw Abebe, Tewodros Seyoum, Solomon Atnafu, Samuel Kinde Kassegne: “Ethiopic Keyboard Mapping and Predictive Text Inputting Algorithm in a Wireless Environment”, ITEs-2004, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2004.
  10. Solomon Atnafu, R. Chbeir, D Coquil, L. Brunie:   Integrating Similarity-based Queries in Image DBMSs;   The 19th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2004), Hilton Park Hotel, Nicosia, Cyprus, March 14 -17, 2004, pp. 735-739.
  11. David COQUIL, Solomon ATNAFU, Richard CHBEIR, Lionel BRUNIE;   EMIMS: -A Medical Image Management System with a Visual Multi-Criteria Query Interface;   15th International Conference on Information Resource Management (IRMA’2003), IRMA Press, May 18-21, 2003, Philadelphia, USA.2003.
  12. Solomon Atnafu, Richard Chbeir, Lionel Brunie: Content-based and Metadata Retrieval in Medical Image Database; 15th IEEE Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2002) June 4th – 7th, 2002, Maribor, Slovenia.
  13. Richard Chbeir, Solomon Atnafu, André Flory, Lionel Brunie: Efficient Method for Image Indexing: A Case for Medical Application; 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT’02), December 18-21, 2002, Marrakesh, Morocco,
  14. Richard Chbeir, Solomon Atnafu, Lionel Brunie: Image Data Model for Efficient Multi-Criteria Query in Medical Database; 14th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2002), 24th-26th July 2002, pp.165- 175, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  15. Solomon Atnafu, Lionel Brunie, and Harald Kosch: Similarity-based Operators and Query Optimization for Multimedia Database Systems; International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS’01), July 16-18, 2001, Grenoble, France; IEEE Comp. Society Press, pp. 346-355.
  16. Solomon Atnafu, Lionel Brunie, and Harald Kosch: Similarity-based Algebra for Multimedia Databases, In the Proc. the 12th Australian Database Conference (ADC’01), Gold Cost, Australia, Jan. 29 – Feb. 2, 2001, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 115-122.
  17. Solomon Atnafu, Lionel Brunie, and Harald Kosch: Modeling Data Repository and Formalizing Content-Based Queries for Image Databases; ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA’01), Beirut, Lebanon, June 25-29, 2001, IEEE Comp. Society Press.
  18. Solomon Atnafu, Lionel Brunie, and Harald Kosch: Similarity-based Operators in Image Database Systems; The 2nd International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM’2001), Xi’an, China, July 9-11, 2001, LNCS 2118, Springer Verlag, pp. 14-25.
  19.  Tessema Mindaye, Solomon Atnafu: Design and Implementation of Amharic Search Engine;The 5th IEEE International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems (SITIS 2009); Track Information Management & Retrieval Technologies (IMRT); November 29th – December 4th,2009, Marrakesh, Morocco.
  20. Hassen Redwan, Tessema Mindaye, Solomon Atnafu: Search Engine for Amharic Web Content; the 9th IEEE Africon 2009 Conference, 23 to 25 September 2009, Nairobi, Kenya. IEEE Catalogue number: CFP09AFR-CDR; Library of Congress: 2009900735; ISBN: 978-1-4244-3919-5.
  21. Eyob B. Kasie and Yaregal Assabie: “Concatenative Speech Synthesis for Amharic Using Unit Selection Method”, In Proceedings of the 4th International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES’12), October 28‐31, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  22. Miftah Hassen and Yaregal Assabie: “Recognition of Ethiopic Braille Characters”, In Proceedings of the 4th International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES’12), October 28‐31, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  23. Tilahun Yeshambel and Yaregal Assabie: “Amharic Document Image Retrieval Using Morphological Coding”, In Proceedings of the 4th International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES’12), October 28‐31, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  24. Yaregal Assabie and J. Bigun: HMM‐based Handwritten Amharic Word Recognition with Feature Concatenation, In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2009), July 26‐29, 2009, Barcelona, Spain.
  25. 76.    Yaregal Assabie and J. Bigun: A Comprehensive Dataset for Ethiopic Handwriting Recognition, In Proceedings of the Swedish Symposium on Image Analysis (SSBA), March 18‐20, 2009, Halmstad, Sweden. Received Best Industry‐Relevant Paper Award.
  26. Yaregal Assabie and J. Bigun: Lexicon‐based Offline Recognition of Amharic Words in Unconstrained Handwritten Text, In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference onPattern Recognition (ICPR2008), December 8‐11, Tampa, Florida, USA.
  27. Yaregal Assabie and J. Bigun: Writer‐independent Offline Recognition of Handwritten Ethiopic Characters, In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR2008), August 19‐21, Montreal, Canada, pp. 652‐657.
  28. Yaregal Assabie and J. Bigun: Online Handwriting Recognition of Ethiopic Script, In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR2008), August 19‐21, Montreal, Canada, pp. 153‐158.
  29. Yaregal Assabie and J. Bigun: A Hybrid System for Robust Recognition of Ethiopic Script, In The 9th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2007), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, September 23‐26, 2007, Curitiba, Brazil, vol. 1, pp. 556‐560.
  30. Yaregal Assabie and J. Bigun: A Neural Network Approach for Multi-font and Size‐Independent Recognition of Ethiopic Characters, In Progress in Pattern Recognition, series: Advances in Pattern Recognition, Springer, Heidelberg, IWAPR 2007, July 21‐23, Plymouth, UK, pp. 129‐137.
  31. Yaregal Assabie and J. Bigun: Ethiopic Character Recognition Using Direction Field tensor, In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition‐ICPR2006, IEEE Computer Society, Piscataway, NJ, August 20‐24, Hong Kong 2006, pp. 284‐287.
  32. Yaregal Assabie and J. Bigun: Structural and Syntactic Techniques for Recognition of Ethiopic Characters, In Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition, volume: LNCS‐4109, Springer, Heidelberg, August 17‐19, Hong Kong 2006, pp. 118‐126.
  33. L. Premaratne, Yaregal Assabie, and J. Bigun: Recognition of Modification‐based Scripts using Direction Tensors, In Proceedings of the 4th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Kolkata, India, Dec. 16‐18, 2004, pp. 587‐592.