Publications and Patents by Dr. Hazem Hajj

Note that “***” indicates 1st author with my students. “(S)” stands for students or post-doc, whose research I was directly supervising or co-supervising.

• *** A. Hussein (S), M. Djandji (S), R. Mahmoud (S), M. Dhabi (S), Hajj, “Augmenting Deep Learning with Adversarial Training for Robust Prediction of Epilepsy Seizures” ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (revised version submitted January 2020).
• *** R. Mahmoud, Hajj, F. Karameh, “A Multitask Learning Framework for Time-series Data” Elsevier Appplied Soft Computing (revised version submitted Nov. 2019).
• Taleb, A. Yeretzian, R. A. Jabr, and H. Hajj. “Optimization of building form to reduce incident solar radiation.” Journal of Building Engineering 28 (2020): 101025.
• *** R. Morcel (S), Hajj, M. Saghir, H. Akkary, H. Artail, R. Khanna, A. Keshavamurthy, “FeatherNet: An Accelerated Convolutional Neural Networks Design for Resource-Constrained FPGAs,” IEEE Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS) accepted January 2019.
• *** G. Badaro (S), R. Baly (S), Hajj, W. El-Hajj, K. B. Shaban, N. Habash, A. Al-Sallab, A. Hamdi, “A Survey of Opinion Mining in Arabic: A Comprehensive System Perspective Covering Challenges and Advances in Tools, Resources, Models, Applications and Visualizations,” ACM Transactions on Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), accepted December 2018.
• *** S. Taleb (S), Hajj, Z. Dawy “EGO: Optimized Sensor Selection for Multi-Context Aware Applications with an Ontology for Recognition Models,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), accepted November 2018.
• *** Abbas (S), H. Hajj, S. Sharafeddine, Z. Dawy, “Traffic Offloading with Channel Allocation in Cache-Enabled Ultra-Dense Wireless Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (1), 99 (2018).
• *** Taleb (S), H. Hajj, Z. Dawy, “VCAMS: Viterbi-based Context Aware Mobile Sensing to Trade-off Energy and Delay,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 17, no. 1 (2018):225-242.
• Ben Saleh, Y. S. Dabagh (S), H. Hajj, M. Saghir, H. Akkary, H. Artail, A. Obdid, S. Qasim, “Optimal Task Scheduling for Distributed Cluster with Active Storage Devices and Accelerated Nodes” IEEE Access, Year: 2018, Volume: 6, Pages: 48195 – 48209.
• *** R. Baly (S), R. Hobeika (S), Hajj, W. ElHajj, K. Shaban, A. Sallab, “ A Meta-Framework for Modeling Human Reading Process in Sentiment Analysis,” ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Volume 35 Issue 1, August 2016.  Invited talk at ACM SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, July 9, 2018.
• Sharafeddin (S), H. Partamian (S), M. Awad, M. Saghir, H. Akkary, H. Artail, H. Hajj, “Towards Distributed Acceleration of Seismic Data Analysis Using Reconfigurable Active SSD Clusters,” International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPC) 11, no. 4 (2018): 261-278.
• *** A. Sallab (S), R. Baly (S), Hajj, W. El Hajj, K. Shaban, G. Badaro “AROMA: A Recursive Deep Learning Model for Opinion Mining in Arabic as a Low Resource Language,” ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), Volume 16 Issue 4, June 2017.
• *** R. Baly (S), Hajj, N. Habash, K. Shaban. W. El Hajj, “A Sentiment Treebank and Morphologically Enriched Recursive Deep Models for Effective Sentiment Analysis in Arabic,” ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), 16, no. 4 (2017): 23.
• Artail, M. Saghir, M. Sharafeddine, H. Hajj, A. Kaitoua, R. Morcel, H. Akkary, “Speedy Cloud: Cloud Computing with Support for Hardware Acceleration Services,” IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 1 (2017): 1-1.
• *** N. Abbas (S), Hajj, Z. Dawy, “An Optimized Approach to Video Traffic Splitting in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with Energy and QoE Considerations,” Elsevier’s Journal of Networking and Computer Applications, 83 (2017): 72-88.
• El-Hajj, G. Ben Brahim, H. Hajj, H. Safa, and R. Adaimy, “Security-by-Construction in Web Applications Development via Database Annotations,” Elsevier Computer and Security, Volume 59, June 2016, Pages 151–165.
• Sharafeddin (S), M. Saghir, H. Akkary, H. Artail, H. Hajj “On the Effectiveness of Accelerating MapReduce Functions Using the Xilinx Vivado HLS Tool“, International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture (IJHSPA), Volume 6 Issue 1, April 2016, Pages 1-12.
• Mershad (S), H. Artail, M. Saghir, H. Hajj, M. Awad, “A Study of the Performance of a Cloud Datacenter Server,” IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), April 2015, DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2015.2415803, ISSN: 2168-7161.
• *** Kaitoua (S), H. Hajj, M. Saghir, H. Artail, H. Akkary, M. Awwad, “Hadoop Extensions for Distributed Computing on Reconfigurable Active SSD Clusters,” ACM Transactions on Computer Architecture and Code Optimization, 2014 (TACO), volume 11, 2 (June 2014) – 22.
• Mershad (S), M. Sharafedddine (S), H. Artail, M. Saghir, H. Hajj, M. Awad, “A Mathematical Model to Analyze the Utilization of a Cloud Datacenter Middleware,” Elsevier Journal of Networking and Computer Applications (JNCA), August 2014, Volume 59, January 2016, Pages 399–415.
• *** Hajj, W. El-Hajj, M. Dabbagh (S), T. Arabi, “An Algorithm-Centric Energy Aware Design Methodology,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integrated Systems (IEEE TVLSI) Vol. 22, no. 11 (2014): 2431-2435.
• *** Trad (S), H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, F. Al-Jamil “Facial Action Unit and Emotion Recognition with Head Pose Variations,” Advanced Data Mining and Applications, Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Volume 7713, 2012, pp. 383-394.
• *** M. Dabbagh (S), Hajj, W. ElHajj, A. Chehab, A. Kayssi, M. Mansour, “An Energy-Aware Design Methodology Based on Kernel Optimizations,” selected 2012 from IWCMC conference for extension to the special issue International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS), 7, no. 3 (2014): 271-294.
• *** Baly (S), H. Hajj, “Wafer Classification using Nonlinear Support Vector Machines,” IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, pp 373 – 383, August 2012.
• *** Farra (S), B. El-Sayed (S), N. Moacdieh (S), H. Hajj, Z. Hajj, R. Haidar, “A Mobile Sensing and Imaging System for Real-Time Monitoring of Spine Health,” selected from conference for extension to the Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics (JMIHI) 2011, Special Issues, Volume 1, Number 3, pp. 238-245(8), September 2011.
• W El-Hajj, Hajj, Z. Trabelsi, and F. Aloul, “Updating Snort with a Customized Controller to Thwart Port Scanning”, Wiley’s Journal of Security and Communication Networks, Volume 4, Issue 8, pp. 807–814, January 2011.
• *** Hajj, W. El-Hajj, K. Kabalan, M. M. El-Dana, M. Dakroub, and F. Fawaz, “An Efficient Vehicle Communication Network Topology with an Extensible Framework,” International Journal of Computing & Information Technology (IJCIT), International Sciences Press, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 237 – 250, 2010.
• El-Hajj, H. Hajj, E. Bakra, Z. Dawy, O. El-Hmaissy, D. Ghadar, Y. Aitour, “Optimal WiMAX Planning with Security Considerations,” Wiley’s Journal of Security and Communication Networks, SI on WiMax Security and Applications, Wiley InterScience, Vol. 2, Issue 5, pp. 401–412, July 2009.
• Moyne, H. Hajj, K. Beatty and R. Lewandowski “SEMI E133—The Process Control System Standard: Deriving a Software Interoperability Standard for Advanced Process Control in Semiconductor Manufacturing”, IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing: Special Issue on Advanced Process Control, Volume 20, Issue 4, pp. 408-420, November 2007.

Note that “***” indicates 1st author with my students. “(S)” stands for students or post-doc, whose research I was directly supervising or co-supervising.

• *** O. ElJundi, M. Dhaybi, K. Mokadam, H. Hajj, and D. Asmar , “Resources and End-to-End Neural Network Models for Arabic Image Captioning,” In Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications – Volume 5: VISAPP, 233-241, 2020, Valletta, Malta
• *** A. Khaddaj (S), Hajj, “Representation Learning for Adversarial Domain Adaptation in Text Classification,” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Informatics, IoT, and Enabling Technologies (ICIoT’20), Qatar, Feb 2-5, 2020. Winner of best paper award.
• *** W. Antoun, F. Baly, R. Achour, A. Hussein, Hajj, “State of the Art Models for Fake News Detection Tasks,” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Informatics, IoT, and Enabling Technologies (ICIoT’20), Qatar, Feb 2-5, 2020.
• *** O. ElJundi, W. Antoun, N. El Droubi, Hajj, W. El-Hajj, and K. Shaban. “hULMonA: The Universal Language Model in Arabic.” In Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, pp. 68-77. 2019.
• *** A. Khaddaj, Hajj, and W. El-Hajj. “Improved Generalization of Arabic Text Classifiers.” In Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, pp. 167-174. 2019.
• *** H. Mozannar, K. Hajal, E. Maamary, and Hajj. “Neural Arabic Question Answering.” In Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, pp. 98-108,  2019.
• Abbas, S. Sharafeddine, H. Hajj, and Z. Dawy. “Cost and energy aware dynamic splitting of video traffic in heterogeneous networks.” (2019).
• Tobaili, M. Fernandez, H. Alani, S. Sharafeddine, H. Hajj, and G. Glavas. “SenZi: A Sentiment Analysis Lexicon for the Latinised Arabic (Arabizi).” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019), pp. 1203-1211. 2019.
• *** R. Baly, A. Khaddaj, Hajj, W. El-Hajj, and K. Shaban. “ArSentD-LEV: A multi-topic corpus for target-based sentiment analysis in Arabic levantine tweets.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.01830 (2019).
• *** Badaro (S), H. Jundi (S), H. Hajj, and W. El-Hajj. “EmoWordNet: Automatic Expansion of Emotion Lexicon Using English WordNet.” In Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, pp. 86-93. 2018.
• *** Badaro (S), H. Jundi (S), H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, and N. Habash. “ArSEL: A Large Scale Arabic Sentiment and Emotion Lexicon.” In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT) held with the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan. 2018.
• Ezzedine (S), R. Morcel (S), H. Artail, H. Akkary, M. Saghir, H. Hajj, “RESTful Hardware Microservices using Reconfigurable Networked Accelerators in Cloud and Edge Datacenters” IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), 2018.
• *** Badaro (S), O. El Jundi (S), A. Khaddaj (S), A. Maarouf (S), R. Kain (S), H. Hajj, and W. El-Hajj. “EMA at SemEval-2018 Task 1: Emotion Mining for Arabic.” In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pp. 236-244. 2018.
• *** Baly (S), G. El-Khoury (S), R. Moukalled (S), R. Aoun (S), H. Hajj, K. Shaaban, W. El Hajj, “Comparative Evaluation of Sentiment Analysis Methods Across Arabic Dialects,” 3rd International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistics, ACLing 2017, 5–6 November 2017, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
• Bampis (S), C. Rusu, H. Hajj, A. Bovik, “Robust Matrix Factorization for Collaborative Filtering in Recommender Systems,” 51st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, October 2017.
• *** Nassralla (S), Z. El Zein (S), H. Hajj, “Classification of Normal and Abnormal Heart Sounds,” Fourth International Conference on Advances In Biomedical Engineering (ICABME17), Lebanon, October 2017.
• *** Baly (S), G. Badaro (S), A. Hamdi (S), R. Moukalled (S), R. Aoun (S), G. El-Khoury (S), A. Al-Sallab (S), H. Hajj, N. Habash, K. Shaban and W. El-Hajj, “OMAM at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Evaluation of English State-of-the-Art Sentiment Analysis Models for Arabic and a New Topic-based Model,” in Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017), Vancouver, 2017.
• Abbas (S), Z. Dawy, H. Hajj, S. Sharaffedine, “Traffic Offloading in Dense Cache-Enabled D2D Networks,” First International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking 2017 (BalkanCom’17), Tirana, Albania, May 30-June 2, 2017.
• Morcel (S), H. Akkary, H. Hajj, M. Saghir, A. Keshavamurthy, R. Khanna, H. Artail, “FeatherNet: A Minimalist Design for Accelerating Convolutional Neural Networks for Low-end FPFA Platforms,” The 25th IEEE International Symposium on. Field-Programmable Custom Computing (FCCM) 2017, Napa, CA, USA.
• El-Hajj, G. Ben Brahim, C. Hayek (S), H. Hajj “Feature Extraction and Large Activity-Set Recognition Using Mobile Phone Sensors,” International Data Science Conference, June 12-13, 2017, Salzburg, Austria.
• *** Baly (S), R. Aoun (S), R. Moukalled (S), G. El Khoury (S), H. Hajj, W. El Hajj, N. Habash, K. Shaban, “A Characterization Study of Arabic Twitter Data with a Benchmarking for State-of-the-Art Opinion Mining Models,” the Third Annual Natural Language Processing for Arabic (WANLP) 2017, held in conjunction with EACL 2017, April 2-7, 2017, Valencia, Spain.
• El Ballouli (S), A. Ghandour (S), W. El Hajj, S. El Bassuoni, H. Hajj, K. Shaban, “CAT: Credibility Analysis of Arabic Content on Twitter,” the Third Annual Natural Language Processing for Arabic (WANLP) 2017, held in conjunction with EACL 2017, April 2-7, 2017, Valencia, Spain.
• Abbas (S), Z. Dawy, H. Hajj, S. Sharafeddine, F. Filali, “Traffic Offloading with Maximum User Capacity in Dense D2D Cooperative Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2017 Mobile and Wireless Networking, 21-25 May 2017, Paris, France.
• Mahmoud (S), F. Karameh, H. Hajj, “A System Identification Approach for Recognition of Personalized User Motion Patterns from Mobile Sensing Data”, 2016 3rd Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering (MECBME), Oct 6-7, 2016, Beirut-Lebanon.
• *** Constantine (S), G. Badaro (S), H. Hajj, W. El Hajj, L. Nachman, M. BenSaleh, A. Obeid, “A Framework for Emotion Recognition from Human Computer Interaction in Natural Setting,” 22^nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Workshop on Issues of Sentiment Discovery and Opinion Mining (WISDOM 2016), San Francisco 2016.
• *** Taleb (S), A. Sallab (S), H. Hajj, Z. Dawy, “Deep Learning with Ensemble Classification Method for Sensor Sampling Decisions,” the 12^th International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2016, to be held September 5-9, 2016, Paphos, Cyprus.
• Al-Zaatari (S), R. El-Ballouli (S), S. Elbassuoni, W. El-Hajj, H. Hajj, K. Shaban, N. Habash, “Arabic Corpora for Credibility Analysis,” 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016), 23-28 May 2016, Portoroz (Slovenia).
• Alhamali (S), N. Salha (S), R. Morcel(S), M. Ezzeddine (S), O. Hamdan (S), H. Akkary, H. Hajj, “FPGA-Accelerated Hadoop Cluster for Deep Learning Computations,” In Proceedings of the IEEE ICDM Workshop on Data Science and Big Data Analytics (DSBDA-2015)), November 13-17, 2015, Atlantic City, USA.
• Hamze, H. Hajj, N. Daher, C. Aramouny, K. Najjar, “A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Developing an Introductory Course in Engineering and Architecture,” The 10^th World Congress in Engineering Education, Oct. 2015, Beirut, Lebanon.
• *** Badaro (S), R. Baly (S), R. Akel (S), L. Fayad (S), J. Khairallah (S), H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, K. Bashir Shaban,  “A Light Lexicon-based Mobile Application for Sentiment Mining of Arabic Tweets,” In Proceedings of the Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (WANLP), held at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and The 7th International Joint Conference of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2015) July, Beijing, China.
• *** Sallab (S), R. Baly(S), G. Badaro (S), H. Hajj, W. El Hajj, K. B. Shaban, “Deep Learning Models for Sentiment Analysis in Arabic,” In Proceedings of the Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (WANLP), held at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2015) July, Beijing, China.
• El-Assaad, Atlal (S), Z. Dawy, G. Nemer, Hajj, F. Kobeissy, “Cleaved Fragments Prediction Algorithm (CFPA) application to calpain and caspase in apoptosis and necrotic cell death,” 2015 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT), IEEE, IL, USA, 2015.
• Adaimy, W. El-Hajj, G. Ben Brahim, H. Hajj, “A Framework for Secure Information Flow Analysis in Web Applications,” 2015 IEEE 29th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), 24-27 March 2015, pp. 434 – 441, Gwangju, Korea.
• *** Badaro, H. Hajj, A. Haddad, W. El-Hajj, and K. Shaban, “Recommender Systems Using Harmonic Analysis,” In Proceedings of the IEEE ICDM workshop on Social Multimedia Data Mining (SMDM 2014), December 14, 2014, Shenzhen, China.
• Shaheen, W. El-Hajj, H. Hajj, and S. Elbassuoni, “Emotion Recognition from Text Based on Automatically Generated Rules,” In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE ICDM workshop on Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction (SENTIRE 2014), December 14, 2014, Shenzhen, China.
• Sharafeddin, H. Harkous, S. Mansour, M. Saghir, H. Akkary, H. Artail, H. Hajj, “On the Efficiency of Automatically Generated Accelerators for Reconfigurable Active SSDs”, 26th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM 2014), December 14-17, 2014, Doha, Qatar.
• *** Badaro (S), R. Baly (S), H. Hajj, N. Habash, W. El-Hajj, “A Large Scale Arabic Sentiment Lexicon for Arabic Opinion Mining,” 18^th International ACM SIGDAT and SIGNLL Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2014 (EMNLP 2014), Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, October 25–29, 2014, Doha, Qatar.
• *** Badaro (S), H. Hajj, A. Haddad, W. El-Hajj, K. Shaaban, “A Multiresolution Approach to Recommender Systems,” 20th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Social Network Analysis Workshop (SNAKDD 2014), New York, 2014.
• Abbas (S), Z. Dawy, H. Hajj, S. Sharafeddine, “Energy-Throughput Tradeoffs in Cellular/WiFi Heterogeneous Networks with Traffic Splitting,” IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.
• *** Taleb (S), H. Hajj, Z. Dawy, “Entropy-based Optimization to Trade-off Energy and Accuracy for Activity Mobile Sensing,” 4^th IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing Systems & Applications (ICEAC 2013), December 15-18, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Mershad (S), A. Kaitoua (S), H. Artail, M. Saghir, H. Hajj, “A Framework for Multi-Cloud Cooperation with Hardware Reconfiguration support”, IEEE 9th World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2013), Santa Clara, CA, June 2013.
• Jomaa (S), K. Mershad (S), N. Abbani (S), Y. Sharaf-Dabbagh (S), B. Romanous (S), H. Artail, M. Saghir, H. Hajj, H. Akkary, M. Awad, “A Mediation Layer for connecting Data-Intensive Applications to Reconfigurable Data Nodes”, 22^nd International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2013), Nassau, Bahamas, July 2013.
• *** Badaro (S), H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, L. Nachman, “A Hybrid Approach with Collaborative Filtering for Recommender Systems,” The Ninth International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2013, Mobile Computing Symposium, July 3-8, 2013.
• Farjo (S), W. Masri, H. Hajj, “Isolating Failing Test Cases: A Comparative Experimental Study of Clustering Techniques,” The 3rd International Conference on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT-2013): Digital Information Management & Security – Digital Information Management, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2013.
• Mershad (S), A. Kaitoua (S), H. Artail, M. Saghir, H. Hajj, “Cloud Providers Collaboration for a Higher Service level in Cloud Computing” The 3rd International Conference on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT-2013): Mobile and Cloud Computing – Mobile and Cloud Computing, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2013.
• *** Taleb (S), N. Abbas (S), H. Hajj, Z. Dawy, “On Sensor Selection in Mobile Devices based on Energy, Application Accuracy, and Context Metrics” The 3rd International Conference on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT-2013): Digital Information Management & Security – Digital Information Management, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2013.
• *** Abbas (S), S. Taleb (S), H. Hajj, Z. Dawy, “Learning-Based Approach for Network Selection in WLAN/3G Heterogeneous Network,” The 3rd International Conference on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT-2013): Wireless Communications and Signal Processing, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2013.
• Taleb (S), M. Dia (S), J. Farhat (S), Z. Dawy, H. Hajj, “On the Design of Energy-Aware 3G/WiFi Heterogeneous Networks Under Realistic Conditions,” The Ninth International Workshop on Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (HWISE 2013), to be held in conjunction with the 27th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2013), Barcelona, Spain, March 25-28, 2013.
• Awwad (S), D. Ripan, T. Arabi, H. Hajj “A Fast Charging Multi-C Technique for Mobile Devices,” ICEAC 2012, the 3^rd IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, Cyprus, Dec. 3-5, 2012.
• *** Houjeij (S), L. Hamiyeh (S), N. Mehdi (S), H. Hajj, “A Novel Approach for Emotion Classification based on Fusion of Text and Speech,” 19th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Jounieh, Lebanon, April 23-25, 2012.
• Ali (S), M. Jomaa (S), B. Romanos (S), M. Sharafeddine (S), H. Akkary, M. Saghir, H. Artail, M. Awwad, H. Hajj, “An Operating System for a Reconfigurable Active SSD Processing Node,” 19th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Jounieh, Lebanon, April 23-25, 2012.
• *** Constantine (S), H. Hajj, “A Survey of Ground-truth in Emotion Data Annotation,” to 8th IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Learning, Life and Leisure (PerEL 2012), part of the 10^th IEEE Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom) conference, Lugano, Switzerland, March 19-23, 2012.
• *** Dabbagh (S), H. Hajj, W. El Hajj, “An Approach to Measuring Kernel Energy in Software Applications,” the 2^nd IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 30 – Dec. 2, 2011.
• Farra (S), G. Raffa (S), L. Nachman, H. Hajj, “Energy-Efficient Mobile Gesture Recognition with Computation Offloading,” the 2^nd IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 30 – Dec. 2, 2011.
• Dabbagh (S), A. J. Ghandour (S), K. Fawaz (S), W. El Hajj, H. Hajj, “Slow Port Scanning Detection,” the Seventh International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS 2011) , Malacca, Malaysia, pp. 228 – 233, December 05-08, 2011.
• *** Hobeika (S), H. Hajj, W. Elhajj, “Machine Reading for Notion-Based Sentiment Mining,” 11^th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2011) Workshops, December 11-14, Vancouver, Canada.
• Abbani (S), A. Ali (S), D. Al Otoom (S), M. Jomaa (S), M. Sharafeddine (S), H. Artail, H. Akkary, M. Saghir, M. Awad, H. Hajj, “A Distributed Reconfigurable Active SSD Platform for Data Intensive Applications”, 13th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-2011), Alberta, Canada, Sep 02-04, 2011.
• *** Abbas (S), H. Hajj, A. Yassine, “Optimal WiMAX Frame Packing for Minimum Energy Consumption”, The Seventh International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2011, July 3-8, 2011.
• *** M. Dabbagh (S), Hajj, A. Chehab, W. Elhajj, A. Kayssi, M. Mansour, “A Design Methodology for Energy Aware Neural Networks,” The Seventh International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2011, July 3-8, 2011.
• *** B. El-Sayed (S), N. Farra (S), N. Moacdieh (S), Hajj, Z. Hajj, R. Haidar, “A Novel Mobile Wireless Sensing System for Real-time Monitoring of Posture and Spine Stress,” 1st Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering (MECBME’11), Feb 21- 24, 2011; Sharjah, UAE.
• *** Abbas (S), H. Hajj, A. Borghol, “A Comprehensive Simulator,” 8th Annual International IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2011), January 9-12, Las Vegas, USA.
• B. Yahya (S), M. Mansour, A. Kayssi, H. Hajj, “Using BIST Circuitry to Measure DRV of Large SRAM Arrays,” IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, December 16-18, 2010, Cairo, Egypt.
• *** Abbas (S), H. Hajj, A. Yassine, “An Energy-Efficient Scheme for WiMAX Downlink Bursts Construction”, IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, December 16-18, 2010, Cairo, Egypt.
• Fawaz (S), N. Kobrosli (S), J. Rizakallah (S), M. Mansour, A. Chehab, A. Kayssi, H. Hajj, “Energy Minimization Feedback Loop for Ripple Carry Adders,” IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, December 16-18, 2010, Cairo, Egypt.
• *** Yassine (S), H. Hajj, “A Framework for Emotion Mining from Text in Online Social Networks” IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010) Workshops, December 14-17, Sydney, Australia.
• *** Farra (S), R. Abou Assi (S), E. Chalita (S), H. Hajj, “Sentence-level and Document-level Sentiment Mining for Arabic Texts,” IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010) Workshops, December 14-17, Sydney, Australia.
• *** Adib (S), H. Hajj, “VSpyware: Spyware in VANETs,” to the 35^th IEEE Local Computer Network (LCN) on User MObility and VEhicular Networks (On-MOVE) conference, October 2010, Denver, Colorado, USA
• *** Abbas (S), H. Hajj, A. Borghol, “A Comprehensive WiMAX Simulator,” the sixth international Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC 2010), Spain, Europe  but later withdrawn due to difficulty in attendance, and  resubmitted to the 8^th IEEE Consumer Communications and Network Conference (CCNC) 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
• *** Adib (S), H. Hajj, “Efficient Time and Frequency Methods for Sampling Filter Functions”, the International Conference on Image and Signal Processing 2010 (ICISP 2010), Canada, June 28-July 2, 2010.
• Hajj, W. El Hajj, M. M. El Dana, M. Dakroub, and F. Fawaz, “An Extensible Software Framework for Building Vehicle to Vehicle Applications”, the Sixth International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2010, June 28-July 2, 2010. Conference Proceedings will be included in ACM and IEEE Digital Library.
• El-Hajj, H. Hajj, “Fault Tolerant Ad Hoc Network Design with Fast Efficient Routing,” the fifth International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2009) Wireless LANs and Wireless PANs Symposium, Leipzig-Germany June 2009.
• *** Y. A Alqudah, M. Abdelmoneum, Hajj, “An Efficient Electrical to Physical Failure Correlation Tool for Yield Analysis and Modeling,” Intel Design and Test Technology Conference, (Intel Confidential), March 2007.
• Moyne, H. Hajj, “E133: The Process Control Systems (PCS) SEMI Standard:  Fault Detection Extension and EDA integration“, 8th European Advanced Equipment Control/ Advanced Process Control (AEC/APC) Conference in Dresden, Germany, April 2007.
• *** Hajj, and E. Hamer, “Station Controller, A Vital Component of Technology Development”, the 8th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing Conference, 1998, Portland, Oregon, USA; Proceedings: Begell House, Inc. (U.K.), ISBN 1-56700-118-1.
• *** Hajj, T. Nguyen, and R. Chin, “Multiscale feature detection for medical image enhancement”, the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, May 1996.
• *** Hajj, T. Nguyen, and R. Chin, “A 2D Multirate Bayesian Framework for Multiscale Feature Detection”, SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation, August 1996.
• *** Hajj, T. Nguyen, and R. Chin, “On Multi-Scale Feature Detection using Filter Banks”, Proceedings of the Twenty Ninth Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, vol. 29, 1996.
• Nadabar, H. Hajj, and R. Anbalagan, “Machine Vision System for High Speed Discrete Parts Inspection”, Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering, Optical Engineering Midwest ’95, vol. 2622, November 1995.

• *** Baly (S), G. El-Khoury (S), R. Moukalled (S), R. Aoun (S), H. Hajj, K. Shaaban, W. El Hajj, “Comparative Evaluation of Sentiment Analysis Methods Across Arabic Dialects,” Elsevier Procedia Computer Science, vol. 117, pp. 266-273, 2017 (extract from 3^rd International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistics, ACLing 2017, 5–6 November 2017, Dubai, United Arab Emirates).
• El Assad (S), G. Nemer, Z. Dawy, H. Hajj, F. Kobeissy, book chapter “Efficient and Accurate Algorithms for Cleaved Fragment Prediction (CFP) in Protein Sequence based on Consensus and its Variants: A Novel Degradomics Prediction Application”, Neuroproteomics, 2nd edition, Springer, Neuroproteomics: Methods and Protocols (2017): 329-352.

• *** A. Al Sallab (S), R. Baly (S), G. Badaro (S), Hajj, W. El Hajj, Khaled Bashir Shaban, “Towards Deep Learning Models for Sentiment Analysis in Arabic”, 2^nd Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium – MLDAS 2015, March 9-10 2015, Doha, Qatar.
• *** R. El-ballouli (S), W. El Hajj, S. Elbassuoni, Hajj, N. Habash, and K. Shaban, “Credibility Models For Arabic Content On Twitter,” Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings: Vol., ITSP0773. DOI: 10.5339/qfarc.2014.ITSP0773. Published online: 13 Nov 2014.
• *** R. Baly (S), G. Badaro (S), Hajj, N. Habash, W. El Hajj, K. Shaban, “Semantic Model Representation For Human’s Pre-conceived Notions In Arabic Text With Applications To Sentiment Mining,” Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings: Vol., ITPP1075. DOI: 10.5339/qfarc.2014.ITPP1075. Published online: 13 Nov 2014.
• *** G. Badaro (S), R. Baly (S), Hajj, N. Habash, W. El-hajj, and K. Shaban, “An Efficient Model For Sentiment Classification Of Arabic Tweets On Mobiles,” Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings: Vol., ITPP0631. DOI: 10.5339/qfarc.2014.ITPP0631. Published online: 13 Nov 2014.
• *** R. Baly (S), J. Moyne, Hajj, “Comparison of Yield Prediction Techniques against Common Data Quality Issues in Yield Data,” the 11th European Advanced Equipment Control / Advanced Process Control Conference, Dresden – April 4-6, 2011.
• *** Baly (S), H. Hajj, “Yield Analysis based on Data Mining with Support vector Machines,” 21st Advanced Equipment Control/ Advanced Process Control (AEC/APC) Conference, Ann Arbor Michigan-USA, September 2009.
• *** H. Hajj, “Intel’s AMT enables rapid processing and Info-turn for Intel’s DFM Test Chip Vehicle”, published in the society of optics, photonics, and imaging engineering (SPIE) Photomask, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6730, October 30, 2007.
• *** Hajj, J. Moyne, M. Pendleton, Toni Guckert, K. Edwards, and C. Young “E133: The Process Control Systems (PCS) SEMI Standard: Applying the Standard to Fault Detection Scenarios Incorporating Interface A Data Collection and other PCS Capabilities”, Advanced Equipment Control/ Advanced Process Control (AEC/APC) Symposium 2006.
• *** J. Fenner, Hajj, “APC Application Selection: The Secret Ingredient to a Successful APC Program”, Advanced Equipment Control/ Advanced Process Control (AEC/APC) Europe Symposium 2005
• *** Fayed, S. Sengupta, Y. Botros, Hajj, “Off-line Data Analysis for Advanced Process Control Systems”, Advanced Equipment Control/ Advanced Process Control (AEC/APC) Symposium September 2003
• *** G. Zhuang, Y. Botros, K. P. Srirama, Hajj, “Integrated Process Control Systems: Benefits, Requirements, and Architecture,” Intel APC Summit 2003.
• *** Botros, H. Hajj, “Process Control Systems: Integrated for Future Process Technologies”, published in the society of optics, photonics, and imaging engineering (SPIE) Advanced Process Control and Automation Proceedings 2003, vol. 5044, pp. 121-129.

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