I am a research scholar visitor in the Department of Computer Science at UIUC and a member of the Open Systems Laboratory. Currently, I am working on my PhD studies under the co-supervision of Prof. Dr. Gul A. Agha and Prof. Dr. Mohamed Essam Khalifa (Ain Shams University, Egypt). I'm working on developing a framework for mobility-aware resource management in multi-inhabitant smart spaces. Smart spaces, mobile agents security, agents negotiation skills and simulators are my main concerns in this study. Before coming here, I completed my Bachelors, Excellent with honors grade, in May 2000 and then my Masters in March 2004 at the Faculty of Computer & Information Sciences, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. My research interests are in the areas of Mobile Computing, Ubiquitous / Pervasive Computing, Mobile Agents, Mobile agents security, Multi-Agents Systems, Context-Awareness, Smart spaces, and Wireless Sensor Networks. Previously, I have worked on Data Mining, Text Mining and Document Clustering.

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Moussa, Sherin, Gul Agha. "A Multi-agent Simulator for Resource Management in Smart Spaces," to appear in Proceedings of The International Workshop on Mobile Systems, E-commerce, and Agent Technology (MSEAT'2009), in conjunction with The Second IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing (U-Media'2009), Taiwan, December, 2009. [bib]
Moussa, Sherin, Gul Agha. "An Agent-based Framework for Inhabitants’ Untraceability in Ubiquitous Environments," to appear in Proceedings of The 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (@WAS ERPAS'2009), Kuala Lampur. Malaysia, December, 2009. [bib]
Moussa, Sherin, Gul Agha. "Integrating Encrypted Mobile Agents with Smart Homes," to appear in Proceedings of The Third International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS'2009), Cairo, Egypt, December, 2009. [bib]
Moussa, Sherin. "Hybrid Techniques For Performance Enhancement of Document Clustering," MSc. Thesis, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University, Egypt, March, 2004. [pdf] [bib]
Moussa, Sherin. "The Effect of Word Sampling on Document Clustering," WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Volume 2, Issue 1, pages 157-162. January, 2003. [pdf] [bib]
Moussa, Sherin. "Analysis of Documents Clustering Using Sampled Agglomerative Technique," In Proceedings, 12th International Conference on Computer Theory and Applications, (ICCTA’2002) , pages 193-197. Alexandria, August, 2002. [pdf] [bib]
Moussa, Sherin. "Determining Initial Starting Conditions For Documents Clustering," In Proceedings, 1st International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems (ICICIS 2002) , pages 275-283. Cairo, June, 2002. [pdf] [bib]