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Boualem Benatallah

Boualem Benatallah

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Computer Science
Ireland
2026

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Computer Science

D-Index
72
Citations
25041
World Ranking
1656
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2022 - IEEE Fellow for declarative services composition and web service middleware
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Ireland Leader Award

Overview

Boualem Benatallah is affiliated with Dublin City University in Ireland and specializes in Computer Science, with a strong focus on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, and their applications. Their research portfolio encompasses several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Management, and Management Information Systems.

Their work covers key topics such as Topic Modeling, Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services, Speech and Dialogue Systems, Business Process Modeling and Analysis, Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing, AI in Service Interactions, and Open Source Software Innovations.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Boualem Benatallah are:

  • Self-adapting cloud services orchestration for fulfilling intensive sensory data-driven IoT workflows, 2020, Future Generation Computer Systems
  • Dialogue Management in Conversational Systems: A Review of Approaches, Challenges, and Opportunities, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
  • An internet of things service roadmap, 2021, Communications of the ACM
  • Knowledge Graphs in Education and Employability: A Survey on Applications and Techniques, 2022, IEEE Access
  • iStory: Intelligent Storytelling with Social Data, 2020, Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2020

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Benatallah include:

  • Marcos Báez
  • Fabio Casati
  • Amin Beheshti
  • Shayan Zamanirad
  • Quan Z. Sheng

Benatallah has published multiple times in venues such as arXiv, Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2020, Information Systems, Computing, and HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe).

Best Publications

  • QoS-aware middleware for Web services composition

    Liangzhao Zeng;B. Benatallah;A.H.H. Ngu;M. Dumas

  • Quality driven web services composition

    Liangzhao Zeng;Boualem Benatallah;Marlon Dumas;Jayant Kalagnanam

  • A Petri net-based model for web service composition

    Rachid Hamadi;Boualem Benatallah

  • The Self-Serv environment for Web services composition

    B. Benatallah;Q.Z. Sheng;M. Dumas

  • Declarative composition and peer-to-peer provisioning of dynamic Web services

    B. Benatallah;M. Dumas;Q.Z. Sheng;A.H.H. Ngu

  • Understanding Mashup Development

    Jin Yu;B. Benatallah;F. Casati;F. Daniel

  • Business-to-business interactions: issues and enabling technologies

    B. Medjahed;B. Benatallah;A. Bouguettaya;A. H. H. Ngu

  • Quality Control in Crowdsourcing Systems: Issues and Directions

    M. Allahbakhsh;B. Benatallah;A. Ignjatovic;H. R. Motahari-Nezhad

  • ContextUML: a UML-based modeling language for model-driven development of context-aware Web services

    Q.Z. Sheng;B. Benatallah

  • Semi-automated adaptation of service interactions

    Hamid Reza Motahari Nezhad;Boualem Benatallah;Axel Martens;Francisco Curbera

  • Developing adapters for web services integration

    Boualem Benatallah;Fabio Casati;Daniela Grigori;Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad

  • Web Service Composition: A Survey of Techniques and Tools

    Angel Lagares Lemos;Florian Daniel;Boualem Benatallah

  • Quality Control in Crowdsourcing: A Survey of Quality Attributes, Assessment Techniques, and Assurance Actions

    Florian Daniel;Pavel Kucherbaev;Cinzia Cappiello;Boualem Benatallah

  • On automating Web services discovery

    Boualem Benatallah;Mohand-Said Hacid;Alain Leger;Christophe Rey

  • Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2005

    Boualem Benatallah;Fabio Casati;Paolo Traverso

  • Representing, analysing and managing web service protocols

    Boualem Benatallah;Fabio Casati;Farouk Toumani

  • SELF-SERV: a platform for rapid composition of web services in a peer-to-peer environment

    Quan Z. Sheng;Boualem Benatallah;Marlon Dumas;Eileen Oi-Yan Mak

  • Web service conversation modeling: a cornerstone for e-business automation

    B. Benatallah;F. Casati;F. Toumani

  • A service computing manifesto: the next 10 years

    Athman Bouguettaya;Munindar Singh;Michael Huhns;Quan Z. Sheng

  • Understanding UI Integration: A Survey of Problems, Technologies, and Opportunities

    F. Daniel;M. Matera;J. Yu;B. Benatallah

  • Model-Driven development of context-aware web services

    Jian Yu;Quan Z. Sheng;Kewen Liao;Hoi S. Wong

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabio Casati
Fabio Casati University of Trento
Quan Z. Sheng
Quan Z. Sheng Macquarie University
Lina Yao
Lina Yao Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Zakaria Maamar
Zakaria Maamar University of Doha for Science and Technology
Athman Bouguettaya
Athman Bouguettaya University of Sydney
Marlon Dumas
Marlon Dumas University of Tartu
Sherif Sakr
Sherif Sakr University of Tartu
Florian Daniel
Florian Daniel Polytechnic University of Milan
Rajiv Ranjan
Rajiv Ranjan Newcastle University
Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
Ahmed K. Elmagarmid Qatar Computing Research Institute

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