Behrouz Tork Ladani

  • Email: ladani AT eng.ui.ac.ir
  • Phone: +98-311-7932673
  • Fax: +98-311-6682887
  • Address: Department of Computer Engineering,
    Faculty of Engineering, University of Isfahan,
    Daneshgah Avenue, Isfahan, Iran,
    Postal Code 81744

 

Educational History

09/1998 – 03/2005:

PhD in Computer Engineering,

Department of Computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Research Area: Formal Verification of Cryptographic Protocols

09/1996 - 06/1998:

MSc. in Software Engineering,
Computer Engineering & Information Technology Department, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Poly-Technique), Tehran, Iran

Project: A Tool for Specification and Analysis of Cryptographic Protocols.

09/1992 - 05/1996:

BSc. in Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

First Student Award

Research Interests

·         Symbolic Processing (Term rewriting, Logic extensions)

·         Formal Specification and Verification

·         Cryptographic Protocols

·         Network Security

·         Security in Mobile Agents

·         Web Service Composition/ Security

Teaching

·         Computer Fundamentals (BSc.)

·         Symbolic Processing - Logic & Term rewriting (MSc.)

·         Expert Systems (MSc.)

·         Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science (BSc)

·         Statistical Pattern Recognition (MSc.)

·         Artificial Intelligence (BSc)

·         Formal Languages and Automata Theory (BSc)

·         Cryptography and Network Security (BSc)

·         Security in Computer Systems (BSc)

·         Internet Engineering (BSc)

Publications

 

PHD thesis

     B. Tork Ladani, "Formal Verification of Cryptographic protocols", Tarbiat Modares University, March 2005 ( Abstract English,  Abstract Persian)

Journal papers

o    Zahra Derakhshandeh, Behrouz Tork Ladani, Naser Netmat Bakhsh, “Modeling and Combining Access Control policies Using Constrained Policy Graph (CPG)”, Journal of Applied Sciences, 2008.

o    Lena Mashayekhy, Mohammad Ali Nematbakhsh, Behrouz Tork Ladani, “Detecting Similar Negotiation Strategies”. Book Chapter in Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering - Trends in Intelligent Systems and Computer Engineering, Springer, pp. 297-307, Vol. 6, 2008.

o    Lena Mashayekhi, Mohammad Ali Nematbakhsh, Behrouz Tork Ladani, "Comparing Negotiation Strategies Based on Offers", Book Chapter in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications - Applications of Data Mining in E-Business and Finance, IOS Press, Vol. 177, pp. 87-98, 2008.

o    B. Tork Ladani, S. Jalili, "A Method for Analyzing The Role of Intruder in Cryptographic Protocols", Journal of Faculty of  Engineering, University of Tabriz, pp 1-14, Vol. 32, No. 40, Autumn 2005.

o    B. Tork Ladani, B. Alcalde, A. Cavalli,  "Passive Testing - A Constrained Invariant Checking Approach", in Testing of Communicating Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 9-22, Vol. 3502, Jun 2005.

o    S. Jalili, B. Tork Ladani, "A Model for Specification of Cryptographic Protocols Using Term Rewriting", Modarres Technical and Engineering Journal, pp. 11-29, Vol. 13. Autumn 2003.

 

Conference papers

2009

·         Marzieh Ispareh, Behrouz Tork Ladani, “A Conceptual Framework for Specification, Analysis, and Design of Anonymity Services”, To be appear in proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS’09), Saint-Petersburg (Russia), March 2009.

·         Hesam Izakian, Behrouz Tork Ladani, Kamran Zamanifar and Ajith Abraham, “A Novel Particle Swarm Optimization Approach for Grid Job Scheduling”, Third International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management (ICISTM-09), Springer Verlag, Germany, 2009.

·         Hesam Izakian, Behrouz Tork Ladani, Kamran Zamanifar, Ajith Abraham and Václav Snášel, “A Continuous Double Auction Method for Resource Allocation in Computational Grids, 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched 2009), Nashville, USA, IEEE Press, USA, 2009.

2008

·         M. Mahmoudi, B. Tork Ladani, “A Model of Police System in Mobile Agents Environment”, in Proceedings of the 5th International ISC Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ISCISC’08), Malek-Ashtar University of Technology, October 2008.

·         B. Tork Ladani, M. Ispareh, “A Conceptual Model for Classification and Analysis of Anonymity Requirements and Services”, in Proceedings of the 5th International ISC Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ISCISC’08), Malek-Ashtar University of Technology, October 2008.

·         Hesam Izakian, S. Amir Hassan Monadjemi, Behrouz Tork Ladani, Kamran Zamanifar, “Multi-Font Farsi/Arabic Isolated Character Recognition Using Chain Code”, Proceedings of World Academy of Science, Engineering, and Technology, Vol. 33, Sep. 2008.

·         Hamed Shahbazi, Alireza Mokhtaripour, Mohammad Dalvi, Behrouz Tork Ladani, “A new Approach for Scoring Relevant Documents by Applying a Farsi Stemming Method in Persian Web Search Engines”, Book Chapter in Communications in Computer and Information Science - Advances in Computer Science and Engineering, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Vol. 6, 2008

·         Mousa Mousazadeh, Behrouz Tork Ladani, "Verification of Liveness Properties in Term Rewriting Systems Using Tree Automata and Termination Analysis", in Proceedings of the 16th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE 2008), Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, May 2008. [PDF in Persian]

·         M. E. Basiri, M. Hosseinzadeh Aghdam, Sh. Nemati, B. Tork Ladani, “ A New Method for Feature Selection in Bioinformatics Data Using Ant Colony Optimization”, in Proceedings of 13th Annual CSI Computer Conference, CSICC-2008, Sharif University of Technology, Kish Iceland, March 2008.

2007

·         Fatemeh Raji, Behrouz Tork Ladani, Mehdi Berenjkoub, "Anonymous Agent with Anonymous Itinerary", in Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security Workshop (CISW07), December 2007, Harbin, China. [PDF in English]

·         Sohail Saifipoor, Behrouz Tork Ladani, Naser Nematbakhsh, "A Dynamic Reconfigurable Web Service Composition Framework Using Reo Coordination Language", in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE European Conference on Web Services, Nov. 2007,  Halle (Saale), Germany. [PDF in English]

·         Zahra Derakhshandeh, Behrouz Tork Ladani, Naser Nematbakhsh, "Verification of Access Control Policies in Composition of Web Services Using Take-Grant Protection Model", in Proceedings of the fourth Iranian Society of Cryptology Conference (ISCC07), Iran University of Science and Technology, October 16-18, 2007. [PDF in Persian]

·         Fatemeh Raji, Behrouz Tork Ladani, Mehdi Berenjkoub, "Clueless Anonymous Agent: A Method for Mobile Agent Security", in Proceedings of the fourth Iranian Society of Cryptology Conference (ISCC07), Iran University of Science and Technology, October 16-18, 2007. [PDF in Persian]

·         Alireza Zahedpour, S. Amir Hassan Monadjemi, Behrouz Tork Ladani, "A New Method For Fingerprint Recognition Using Neural Networks", in Proceedings of the fourth Iranian Society of Cryptology Conference (ISCC07), Iran University of Science and Technology, October 16-18, 2007. [PDF in Persian]

·         Hamed Shahbazi, Alireza Mokhtaripour, Hamid Mohammadi, Behrouz Tork Ladani, "A Persian Electronic Document Search Engine Using Stemming and Fourier Domain Score", in Proceedings of the 10th Iranian Student Conference on Electrical Engineering (ISCEE07), Isfahan University of Technology, Sep. 2007. [PDF in Persian]

·         Mojtaba Vatani, Behrouz Tork Ladani, Naser NematBakhsh, "A Method for Automatic Test Case Generation Using View Chart", in Proceedings of the 10th Iranian Student Conference on Electrical Engineering (ISCEE07), Isfahan University of Technology, Sep. 2007. [PDF in Persian]

·         Sohail Saifipoor, Behrouz Tork Ladani, Naser Nematbakhsh, "Modelling Web Service Composition Using Reo Coordination Language", Proceedings of  International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2007), May 2007, London, United Kingdom. [PDF in English]

·         B. Tork Ladani, P. Taheri Makhsous, H. R. Shayegh Boroujeni, S. Jalalian, "Persian Handwritten Analysis for Extracting Structural Features and Writer Identification", Proceedings of the 4th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP 2007), Mashad, Iran, February 14-15, 2007 [PDF in Persian]

2006

·         Mashayekhy Lena, NematBakhsh Mohammadali, Tork Ladani Behrouz, "E-Negotiation Model Based on Data Mining", Proceedings of IADIS International Conference e-Commerce 2006, pp 369-373, Barcelona, Spain, 9-11 December 2006. [PDF in English]

·         B. Tork Ladani, "A Model of Defense in Information Warfare", Proceedings of the First International Conference on Islamic world, Information technology, and Information society (IC3I 2006), Dec. 2006, University of Isfahan, Iran. [PDF in Persian]

·         B. Tork Ladani, M. Berenjkoub, “A Comparative Study on National Information Security Strategies in Finland, US and Iran”, Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Information Technology and Its Disciplines (WITID’06), Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, Jan 2006. [PDF in English]

·          M. Berenjkoub, B. Tork Ladani, “Information Security Community: A Nationwide Examination”, Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Information Technology and Its Disciplines (WITID’06), Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, Jan 2006. [PDF in English]

·         F. Ghasemi, N. Nemat Bakhsh, B. Tork Ladani, M. Sirjani, “A Formal Model for Organization of Multi-agent Systems”, Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Information Technology and Its Disciplines (WITID’06), Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, Jan 2006. [PDF in English]

·         F. Ghasemi, N. Nemat Bakhsh, B. Tork Ladani, M. Sirjani, “Specification and Implementation of Multi-agent Organizations ”,  Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST-2006),  Setúbal, Portugal, April 2006. [PDF in English]

·         F. Ghasemi, N. Nemat Bakhsh, B. Tork Ladani, M. Sirjani, “A Formal Model for Coordination Behavior of the Organization in Multi Agent Systems”, Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications - ICTTA 2006, Damascus (Syria), April 2006. [PDF in English]

·         A. Fatemi, N. Nemat Bakhsh, B. Tork Ladani, “An Investigation of Agent Oriented Software Engineering Methodologies to Provide an Extended Methodology”, Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications - ICTTA 2006, Damascus (Syria), April 2006. [PDF in English]

·         B. Tork Ladani, S. Jalili, “Security Analysis of a VoIP Authentication and Key Exchange Protocol”,  Proceedings of the 14th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE 2006), Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, May 2006. [PDF in Persian]

1998-2005

·         B. Tork Ladani, S. Jalili, "Definition and verification of Security invariants on the State Machine Specification of Cryptographic Protocols" , in Proceedings of the third Iranian Society of Cryptology Conference (ISCC05), Isfahan University of Technology, Sept. 2005. [PDF in Persian]

·          S. Jalili, B. Tork Ladani, "Exploring Intruder Cheat Scenarios in Cryptographic protocols Using Term Rewriting", in Proceedings of the Second Iranian Society of Cryptology Conference (ISCC03), Sharif University of Technology, Oct. 2003. [PDF in Persian]

·         B. Tork Ladani, S. Jalili, "Verification of Cryptographic Protocols Without Explicit Consideration of Intruder", in Proceedings of  7th annual CSI Computer Conference, CSICC-2002, Pages 518-527, Iran Telecommunication Research Center, Tehran, Feb. 2002. [PDF in Persian]

·         B. Tork Ladani, S. Jalili, "A Framework for Verification of Cryptographic Protocols", in Proceedings of the First Iranian Society of Cryptology Conference (ISCC01), Imam-Hussain University, Oct. 2001. [PDF in Persian]

·           B. Tork Ladani, S. H. Mirian Hossein-abadi, "Specification of Cryptographic Protocol Semantics Using Z Specification Language", in Proceedings of 6th annual CSI Computer Conference, CSICC-2001, Pages 237-246, University of Isfahan, March 2001. [PDF in Persian]

·         B. Tork Ladani, B. Sadeghian, " Mobayyen : A Tool for Specification and Analysis of Authentication protocols", in Proceedings of 6th annual CSI Computer Conference, CSICC-2001, Pages 247-258, University of Isfahan, March 2001. [PDF in Persian]

·         M. Khajooyi, M. Shadjari, M. Nadjar-Bashi, B. Sadeghian, B. Tork Ladani and M. Bahrami, "Advanced Domestic Firewall: Services, Protocols and High level Design" ,in Proceedings of International Symposium on Telecommunication, IST2001, Iran Telecommunication Research Center 2001. [PDF in English]

·         B. Tork Ladani, B. Sadeghian," Automatization of Authentication protocol analysis using BAN and GNY logic", 7th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, ICEE99, Iran Telecommunication Research Center, Tehran, May 1999. [PDF in Persian]

·         B. Tork Ladani, B. Sadeghian, "Logic Analysis of Authentication Protocols", in Proceedings of the First Symposium on Telecommunication Security,  Imam-Hussain University, March 1998.