publications

conference papers

Nils Körber, and H. Suleman (2008), "Usability of Digital Repository Software: A Study of DSpace Installation and Configuration", to appear in Proceedings of ICADL 2008, 2-5 December, Bali, Indonesia. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000492/01/2008_06_15_icadl_submission.pdf

Suleman, H. (2008), "Automatic Marking with Sakai", in Proceedings of SAICSIT 2008, 6-8 October 2008, Wilderness, South Africa. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000465/01/saicsit_2008_automark_revised.pdf

Christopher Parker, and H. Suleman (2008), "A lightweight Web interface to Grid scheduling systems", in Proceedings of SAICSIT 2008, 6-8 October 2008, Wilderness, South Africa. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000464/01/Final.pdf

Mayumbo Nyirenda, and H. Suleman (2008), "X-Switch: A Secure, Multi-User, Language-Independent Web Application Server", to appear in Proceedings of CARI'08, 28-30 October 2008, Rabat, Morrocco.

Suleman, H. (2008), "An African Perspective on Digital Preservation", in Post-Proceedings of International Workshop on Digital Preservation of Heritage and Research Issues in Archiving and Retrieval, Kolkata, India.

Kieran Sharpey-Schafer, and H. Suleman (2008), "Evaluating Health Information Systems for Developing Countries using Simulation", in Proceedings of IST-Africa 2008, Windhoek, Namibia. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000455/01/ISTAfrica_Paper_ref_75_doc_2112.pdf

Ndapandula Nakashole, H. Suleman and Calvin Pedzai (2007), "Dynamic Role Allocation for Small Search Engine Clusters", In Barnard, Lynette and Reinhard A Botha (eds): Proceedings of Annual Research Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT 2007), Port Alfred, South Africa. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000431/01/dynamic_role.pdf

Suleman, H. (2007). "Managing Digital Library Components", in Proceedings of Second Workshop on Foundations of Digital Libraries, 20 September, Budapest, Hungary. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000432/01/foundations_2007_paper.pdf

Suleman, H. (2007). "Digital Libraries Without Databases: The Bleek and Lloyd Collection", In Kovacs, Laszlo, Norbert Fuhr and Carlo Meghini (eds): Proceedings of Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 11th European Conference (ECDL 2007), pp. 392-403, 16-19 September, Budapest, Hungary. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000433/01/ecdl_2007_dlwd.pdf

Suleman, H. (2007). "in-Browser Digital Library Services", In Kovacs, Laszlo, Norbert Fuhr and Carlo Meghini (eds): Proceedings of Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 11th European Conference (ECDL 2007), pp. 462-465, 16-19 September, Budapest, Hungary. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000434/01/ecdl_2007_ajax.pdf

Suleman, H. (2006). "Parallelising Harvesting", in S. Sugimoto, J. Hunter, A. Rauber and A. Morishima (eds): Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2006), 27-30 November, Tokyo, Japan, Springer-Verlag, pp. 81-90. ISSN: 0302-9743. ISBN: 978-3-540-49375-4. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000328/01/icadl_2006_oaihpc.pdf

Suleman, H., G. Marsden and Kevin Feng (2006). "Customising Interfaces to Service-Oriented Digital Library Systems", in S. Sugimoto, J. Hunter, A. Rauber and A. Morishima (eds): Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2006), 27-30 November, Tokyo, Japan, Springer-Verlag, pp. 503-506. ISSN: 0302-9743. ISBN: 978-3-540-49375-4. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000327/01/icadl_2006_carl.pdf

Suleman, H., and Siyabonga Mhlongo (2006). "A Flexible Approach to Web Component Packaging", in Judy Bishop and Derrick Kourie (eds): Proceedings of Annual Research Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT 2006), 9-11 October, Somerset West, SAICSIT, pp. 257.266. ISBN: 1-59593-567-3. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000326/01/saicsit_2006_packaging_revised.pdf

Suleman, H. (2006). "Reflections on Three Years of Archiving Research Output", in C. de Villiers (ed): Proceedings of Conference on Information Technology in Tertiary Education (CITTE 2006), 18-20 September, Pretoria, Central University of Technology, pp. 1-13. ISBN: 0-620-36564-1. Available http://www.husseinsspace.com/research/publications/citte_2006_reflections.pdf

Muammar Omar, and H. Suleman (2006). "Component-based digital library scalability using cluster computing", in P. A. van Brakel (ed): Proceedings of 8th Annual Conference on World Wide Web Applications, 5-8 September, Bloemfontein, Cape Peninsula of Technology, pp. 1-18. ISBN: 978-0-620-37309-8. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000324/01/Component-based_Digital_Library_scalability_using_Cluster_Computing.pdf

Suleman, H., Kevin Feng, Siyabonga Mhlongo and Muammar Omar (2005). "Flexing Digital Library Systems", in E. A. Fox, E. J. Neuhold, P. Premsmit and V. Wuwongse (eds): Proceedings of ICADL 2005, 12-15 December, Bangkok, Thailand, Springer-Verlag, pp. 33-37. ISSN: 0302-9743. ISBN 3-540-30850-4. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000277/01/icadl_2005_paper_revised.pdf

Andrew Maunder, Reinhardt van Rooyen and H. Suleman (2005). "Designing a Universal Web Application Server", in J. Bishop and D. Kourie (eds): Proceedings of SAICSIT 2005, 20-22 September, White River, South Africa, ACM Press, pp. 86-94. ISBN 1-59593-258-5. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000222/01/Maunder_C13.pdf

Muammar Omar, Afzal Dalwai and H. Suleman (2005). "An Evaluation of QT E-Learning Standards in Resource-Limited Environments", in P. A. van Brakel (ed): Proceedings of 7th Annual Conference on World Wide Web Applications, 29-31 August, Cape Town, Cape Peninsula of Technology, pp. 3-17. ISBN 0-620-35079-2. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000275/01/www_2005_qti_final_edited_hs.pdf

Linda Eyambe, and H. Suleman (2004). "A Digital Library Component Assembly Environment", in G. Marsden, P. Kotzé and A. Adesina-Ojo (eds): Proceedings of SAICSIT 2004, 4-6 October, Stellenbosch, ACM Press, pp. 15-22. ISBN: 1-58113-982-9. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000274/01/p15-eyambe.pdf

Sergio Congia, Michael Gaylord, Bhavik Merchant and H. Suleman (2004). "Applying SOAP to OAI-PMH", in R. Heery and L. Lyon (eds): Proceedings of 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL2004), 12-17 September, Bath, UK, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 3232, pp. 411-420. ISSN: 0302-9743. ISBN: 3-540-23013-0. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000273/01/ecdl_2004_paper_soap_revised.pdf

Suleman, H. (2004). "Analysis and Evaluation of Service-Oriented Architectures for Digital Libraries", in M. Agosti, H. Jorg-Schek and C.Turker (eds): Pre-Proceedings of 6th DELOS Workshop on Digital Library Architecture: Peer-to-Peer, Grid and Service-Orientation, 24-25 June, S. Margherita di Pula, Italy, Edizioni Progetto Padova, pp. 163-174. ISBN: 88-87331-60-X. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000272/01/delos_2004_paper_eval_full.pdf

Suleman, H. (2003). "Metadata Editing by Schema", in T. Koch and I. T. Solvberg (eds): Proceedings of 7th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL2003), LNCS 2769, Trondheim, Norway, 17-21 August 2003. ISSN: 0302-9743. ISBN: 3-540-40726-X. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000012/01/ecdl_2003_paper_mdedit_revised.pdf

Suleman, H., D. P. Madalli and E. A. Fox (2003) "Design and Implementation of Networked Digital Libraries: Best Practices", in DRTC Workshop on Digital Libraries: Theory and Practice, March 2003, Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India. pp. 79-87. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000017/01/G_networkedDLs.pdf

Suleman, H., and E. A. Fox (2002) "Designing Protocols in Support of Digital Library Componentization", in M. Agosti and C. Thanos (eds): Proceedings of 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL2002), LNCS 2458, Rome, Italy, 16-18 September 2002, pp. 568-582. Available http://www.husseinsspace.com/research/publications/ecdl_2002_paper_odl.pdf

Suleman, H., and E. A. Fox (2002) "Towards Universal Accessibility of ETDs: Building the NDLTD Union Archive", Fifth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD2002), Provo, Utah, USA, 30 May-1 June 2002. Available http://www.husseinsspace.com/research/publications/etd_2002_paper_union.pdf

Fox, Edward A., Hussein Suleman and Ming Luo (2002) "Building Digital Libraries Made Easy: Toward Open Digital Libraries", in E.-P. Lim, S. Foo, C. Khoo, H. Chen, E. Fox, S. Urs and T. Costantino (eds): Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology: 5th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL2002), LNCS 2555, Singapore, December 11-14, pp. 14-24. Available http://www.husseinsspace.com/research/publications/icadl_2002_paper_odl.pdf

Suleman, H. (2001) "Enforcing Interoperability with the Open Archives Initiative Repository Explorer", in Proceedings of the first ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Roanoke, Virginia, USA, June 2001, pp. 63-64. Available http://www.husseinsspace.com/research/publications/jcdl_2001_paper_repository_explorer.pdf

Suleman, H., E. A. Fox and M. Abrams (2000) "Building Quality into a Digital Library", in Proceedings of the fifth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, San Antonio, Texas, USA, June 2000, pp. 228-229. Available http://www.husseinsspace.com/research/publications/acmdl_2000_paper_building.pdf

Suleman, H., and M. Hajek (1996) Parallelism: An Effective Genetic Programming Implementation on Low-powered Mathematica Workstations, in Proceedings of The 1996 National Research and Development Conference, SAICSIT 1996, 26-27 September, University of Natal, Durban.

journal articles

Suleman, H., Christopher Parker and Muammar Omar (2008), Lightweight Component-Based Scalability, International Journal on Digital Libraries.

Linda Eyambe, and H. Suleman (2005). A component assembly approach to digital library systems, South African Computer Journal, Vol. 35, pp. 59-68. ISSN 1015-7999. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000307/01/sacj_2005_blox_revised.pdf

Suleman, H. (2005). Analysis and Evaluation of Service-Oriented Architectures for Digital Libraries, in Can Turker, Maristella Agosti, Hans-Jorg Schek (Eds.), Peer-to-Peer, Grid, and Service-Orientation in Digital Library Architectures, 6th Thematic Workshop of the EU Network of Excellence DELOS, Cagliari, Italy, June 24-25, 2004, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3664 Springer 2005, ISBN 3-540-28711-6, pp. 130-146. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000278/01/delos_2005_paper_eval_full_revised.pdf

Suleman, H., E. A. Fox, R. Kelapure, A. Krowne and M. Luo (2003), Building Digital Libraries from Simple Building Blocks, Online Information Review, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 301-310, Emerald Publishing. ISSN: 1468-4527. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000013/01/oir_2003_oaiodl_revised2.pdf

Suleman, H., and E. A. Fox (2003), Leveraging OAI Harvesting to Build a Union Catalog, Library Hi-Tech, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 219-227, edited by Timothy W. Cole, Emerald Publishing. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000018/01/lht2002ra.pdf

Suleman, H., and E. A. Fox (2001) The Open Archives Initiative: Realizing Simple and Effective Digital Library Interoperability., Journal of Library Administration, Vol. 35, No. 1/2, pp. 125-145, November 2001, Haworth Press Inc, New York. Co-published in Libraries and Electronic Resources, edited by Pamela Higgins, Haworth Press Inc, 2001. Available http://www.husseinsspace.com/research/publications/jla_2001_article_oai.pdf

book chapters

Fox, E. A., H. Suleman, R. C. Gaur and D. P. Madalli (2005). Design Architecture: An Introduction and Overview, chapter in Y. Theng and S. Foo (eds): Design and Usability of Digital Libraries: Case Studies in the Asia Pacific, Information Science Publishing. ISBN: 159140442-8. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000308/01/dlasia_2003_architecture_v25.pdf

Fox, E. A., G. McMillan, H. Suleman, M. A. Gonçalves and M. Luo (2004). Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), chapter in D. Law and J. Andrews (eds): Digital Libraries: Policy Planning and Practice, Ashgate Publishing. ISBN: 0754634485. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000015/01/ndltd12.pdf

Fox, E. A., H. Suleman, D. Madalli and L. Cassel (2004). Digital Libraries, chapter in M. P. Singh (ed). Practical Handbook of Internet Computing, CRC Press. ISBN: 1584883812. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000016/01/handbook16.pdf

Suleman, H., A. Atkins, M. A. Gonçalves, R. K. France, E. A. Fox, V. Chachra, M. Crowder and J. Young (2004). Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, chapter in Fox, E. A., S. Feizabadi, J. M. Moxley and C. R. Weisser (eds), Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Sourcebook for Educators, Students, and Librarians, Chapter 5, pp. 49-72, Marcel Dekker Inc..

Suleman, H. (2004) NDLTD Union Catalog Project, chapter in Fox, E. A., S. Feizabadi, J. M. Moxley, and C. R. Weisser (eds), Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Sourcebook for Educators, Students, and Librarians, Chapter 6, pp. 73-77, Marcel Dekker, Inc..

theses

Suleman, H. (2002) Open Digital Libraries, Ph.D. dissertation, Virginia Tech. Available http://www.husseinsspace.com/research/publications/odl.pdf and http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11222002-155624/

Suleman, H. (1997) Genetic Programming in Mathematica, M.Sc. thesis, University of Durban-Westville. Available http://www.husseinsspace.com/research/publications/gpinmath.pdf

magazine articles

Suleman, H., and E. A. Fox (2001) "A Framework for Building Open Digital Libraries", in D-Lib Magazine, Vol 7., No. 12, December 2001. Available http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december01/suleman/12suleman.html

Suleman, H., A. Atkins, M. A. Gonçalves, R. K. France, E. A. Fox, V. Chachra, M. Crowder and J. Young (2001) "Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations: Bridging the Gaps for Global Access - Part 1: Mission and Progress", in D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 9, September 2001. Available http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september01/suleman/09suleman-pt1.html

Suleman, H., A. Atkins, M. A. Gonçalves, R. K. France, E. A. Fox, V. Chachra, M. Crowder and J. Young (2001) "Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations: Bridging the Gaps for Global Access - Part 2: Services and Research", in D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 9, September 2001. Available http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september01/suleman/09suleman-pt2.html

reviewed conference demonstrations

Fox, E. A., R. K. France, M. A. Gonçalves and H. Suleman (2001) "Building Interoperable Digital Library Services: MARIAN, Open Archives and NDLTD", in Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, September 2001, p. 451.

Suleman, H. (2001) "Using the Repository Explorer to Achieve OAI Protocol Compliance", in Proceedings of the First ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Roanoke, Virginia, USA, June 2001, p. 459.

Fox, E. A., R. K. France, M. A. Gonçalves, H. Suleman and M. H. Lee (2000) "Building a Unified Digital Library for Theses and Dissertations", 3rd International Conference of Asian Digital Library, Seoul, South Korea, December 2000.

Suleman, H., E. A. Fox and M. Abrams (2000) "Building Quality into a Digital Library", Fifth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, San Antonio, Texas, USA, June 2000.

reviewed conference posters

Hisham Abdalla, and H. Suleman (2008) "Combining Dictionary and Web-mined Resources for Arabic-English Cross Language Information Retrieval", at 10th Annual Conference on WWW Applications, Cape Town, 2-5 September 2008.

Nils Körber, and H. Suleman (2008) "Enhancing Usability of Open Source Digital Repository Software", at 10th Annual Conference on WWW Applications, Cape Town, 2-5 September 2008.

Mohammed Mustafa Ali, Hisham Abdalla, and H. Suleman (2008) "Current Approaches in Arabic IR: A Survey", at 11th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2008), Bali, Indonesia, 2-5 December 2008.

Ndapandula Nakashole, and H. Suleman (2008) "A Scavenger Grid for Intranet Indexing", at 11th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2008), Bali, Indonesia, 2-5 December 2008.

Suleman, H., Linda Eyambe, M. Luo and E. A. Fox (2003) "New Directions in Digital Library Componentisation", at 7th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL2003), Trondheim, Norway, 17-21 August 2003.

technical reports

Suleman, Hussein, and Edward A. Fox (2002) Beyond Harvesting: Digital Library Components as OAI Extensions, Technical Report TR-02-25, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Available http://www.husseinsspace.com/research/publications/cstr_2002_odl_1.pdf and http://eprints.cs.vt.edu:8000/archive/00000625/