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The 15th International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT2014) Program

THE 15TH INTERNATIONAL ARAB CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (ACIT2014), UNIVERSITY OF NIZWA, OMAN

DECEMBER 9-11, 2014 CONFERENCE PROGRAM

DAY 0: MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2014TIME

09:00-10:00 10:00-13:00

13:00-14:00 14:00-16:00

16:00-19:0019:00-22:00

ACTIVITY DEANS’ REGISTRATIONDEANS’ MEETINGCHAIRMAN: CCIS SECRETARY GENERAL PROF. MOHAMED AL-HAJ HASAN

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CCIS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING CHAIRMAN: CCIS SECRETARY GENERAL PROF. MOHAMED AL-HAJ HASAN

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TIME 08:00-09:30 10:00-10:4510:45-11:30

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KEYNOTE SPEECH I: PROF. EMAD ABUELRUBTITLE: QUALITY ASSURANCE OF TEACHING AND

LEARNING OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS

SESSION CHAIR: DR. AHMAD AL-KINDI SESSION CO-CHAIR: DR. MAHMOOD K. JASIM

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14:00-16:00 THREE PARALLEL PAPER SESSIONS

SESSION 1: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SESSION CHAIR: PROF. THIAB TAHA SESSION CO-CHAIR: DR. ALI ABDULHAFIDH

A SOFTWARE RODUCT LINE DERIVATION PROCESS BASED ON MAPPING FEATURES TO ARCHITECTUREAUTHORS: NESRINE LAHIANI AND DJAMAL BENNOUAR

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DAY 1: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2014 (CON’T.)FAULT-PRONENESS OF OPEN SOURCE SYSTEMS: AN EMPERICAL ANALYSISAUTHORS: MAMDOUH ALENEZI, SHADI BANITAAN, AND QASEM OBEIAT

TOWARDS A MULTI-AGENT MECHANISM FOR SOFTWARE COMPONENT SELECTIONAUTHORS: M. ELAMMARI AND R. ALI

EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MINDMAPPING IN GENERATING DOMAN ONTOLOGIES USING ONTOREM: THE MASCOT CASE STUDYAUTHORS: KELLY ANTONINI, MOHAMMED ODEH, MARIO KOSSMANN, AND CAROLINE LANGE

RECONCILING COMPONENT BASED AND SERVICE ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: APPLICATION TO E-HEALTH SYSTEMAUTHORS: BENTLEMSAN KHADIDJA, BENNOUAR DJAMEL, AND HIDOUCI WALID

EVOLVING AND VERSIONING SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES USING ATL TRANSFORMATIONSAUTHORS: ABDELKRIM AMIRAT, AFRAH DJEDDAR, AND MOURAD OUSSALAH

A FRAMEWORK FOR SOFTWARE RE-DOCUMENTATION USING REVERSE ENGINEERING APPROACHAUTHORS: NASRIN ISMAIL MOHAMED AND NISREEN BESHIR OSMAN

SESSION 2: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, DATABASE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS SESSION CHAIR: DR. S. AROCHIASSAMYSESSION CO-CHAIR: DR. MOHAMED AISSA

ACHIEVING THE EXCELLENCE PERFORMANCE BY USING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND INNOVATION FRAMEWORK AUTHORS: HOSSAM ELDIN YOUNES, OSAMA BAWADY, AND NEVIEN KHOURSHED

HYPER METHOD FOR IMPROVING PRECISION OF TEXT SIMILARITYAUTHOR: BOUMEDYEN SHANNAQ

TOWARD AN ONTOLOGY BASED APPROACH FOR DATA WAREHOUSING STATE OF THE ART AND PROPOSAL AUTHORS: ELHAJ ELAMIN AND JAMEL FEKI

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DAY 1: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2014 (CON’T.)AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF LIGHT STEMMING STRATEGIES ON ARABIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AUTHORS: SULEIMAN H. MUSTAFA AND MANAL AKWANIN

DOCUMENT CLUSTERING USING GRAPH BASED DOCUMENT REPRESENTATION WITH CONSTRAINTSAUTHORS: FARNAZ AMIN, MUHAMMAD RAFI, AND MOHAMMAD SHAHID SHAIKH

TOWARDS A GENERAL OBJECT-RELATIONAL SPATIAL-TEMPORAL DATA MODEL(ORSTD MODEL)AUTHORS: WADEE AL-QUBATI, ABDULQADER M. MOHSEN, AND AMMAR ZAHARY

SESSION 3: IT AND SOCIETY AND HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION SESSION CHAIR: DR. RAMZI AHMED ABDUL-HALEMSESSION CO-CHAIR: DR. GARY DACANAY

HEALTH SMART HOME (HSH): HOME SOUNDS CLASSIFICATION BASED ON DTWAUTHORS: MOHAMED FEZARI, LEILA ABDOUNE, AND ALI AL-DAHOUD

3D MULTIMEDIA MODEL FOR EDUCATIONAL DESIGN ENGINEERINGAUTHORS: MOHANAAD T. ALNASEERI , AMIR H. ALFALAHI, AND MOHAMMED A. ALZIDI

MINING CHANGES OF OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY STUDENTS TO IMPROVE COURSE EVALUATIONAUTHOR: ALAA EL-HALEES

ONTOLOGY BASED SEMANTIC RETRIEVAL OF LEARNER PROFILEAUTHORS: T.SHEEBA AND RESHMY KRISHNAN

THE ROLE OF E-TRAINING FOR ARABIC HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENTAUTHOR: JAMIL ATMEZA

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DAY 2: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2014TIME ACTIVITY VENUE

09:00-10:15 KEYNOTE SPEECH II: PROF. IAN AKYILDIZTITLE: RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN NEXT GENERATION CELLULAR

SYSTEMS: LTE-A AND BEYONDSESSION CHAIR: PROF. HUSSEIN ABDULQADER SESSION CO-CHAIR: DR. KHIZAR HAYAT

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11:00-13:00 ACIT STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING CHAIRMAN: CCIS SECRETARY GENERAL PROF. MOHAMED AL-HAJ HASAN

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11:00-13:00 THREE PARALLEL PAPER SESSIONS

SESSION 4: ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE, NEURAL NETWORKS AND EXPERT SYSTEMS SESSION CHAIR: PROF. JOHN D. HAYNESSESSION CO-CHAIR: MRS. SOLANE DUQUE

HAND GESTURES DETECTION AND RECOGNITION BUILDING SYSTEM FOR STROKE PATIENTS USING SUPERVISED NEURAL NETWORKSAUTHOR: AZMI SHAWKAT ABDULBAKI

INTELLIGENT METHOD FOR CLOUD TASK SCHEDULING BASED ON PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMAUTHORS: ASHRAF B. EL-SISI, MEDHAT A. TAWFEEK, ARABI E. KESHK, AND FAWZY A. TORKEY

A NEW METHOD FOR MOBILE ROBOT NAVIGATION IN UNSTRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTSAUTHORS: HAMANI MILOUD AND HASSAM ABDELOUAHAB

ACCELERATION THE WEB PAGES CLASSIFIER USING THE HITS ALGORITHM AUTHOR: MEADI MOHAMED NADJIB

INTELLIGENT MAINTENANCE SYSTEM BASED ON ONTOLOGIES AND WEB SERVICESAUTHORS: OSAMA F. ZAKI AND EMILIO M. MIGUELANEZ

THE NEED FOR AN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMIN THE FIELD OF PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION OF LARGE APPLICATIONSAUTHORS: LAMIA ATMA DJOUDI AND MIGUEL ROME

SESSION 5: NETWORKS, GRID AND CLOUD COMPUTING, AND GIS SESSION CHAIR: PROF. ALLAN MARSHALLSESSION CO-CHAIR: DR. MUNAF SALIM

REAL TIME ALZHEIMER'S PATIENTS LOCATION DETECTION HYBRID PROPOSED MODELAUTHOR: AZMI SHAWKAT ABDULBAKI

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DAY 2: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2014 (CON’T.)WEIGHTED ROUND ROBIN POLICY FOR SERVICE BROKERS IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENTAUTHOR: MOHAMMED RADI

SIMULATION OF A COST MODEL RESPONSE REQUESTS FOR REPLICATION IN DATA GRID ENVIRONMENTAUTHORS: BENATIALLAH ALI, KADDI MOHAMMED, BENATIALLAH DJELLOUL, AND HARROUZ ABDELKADERGAIN IMPROVEMENT OF ULTRA WIDEBAND PATCH ANTENNA FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS BY USING TWO TRIPLE TRANSITION STEPS HEXAGONAL PATCH AS ARRAY ANTENNAAUTHORS: MALIK JASIM FARHAN AND ABDULKAREEM SWADI ABDULLAH

AVOIDING DROPPED MESSAGES DURING SERVICE DISCOVERY IN HYBRID NETWORKSAUTHORS: INTISAR AL-MEJIBLI AND MARTIN COLLEY

SAFE CLUSTERING ALGORITHM IN VEHICULAR AD-HOC NETWORKSAUTHORS: MOHAMED AISSA, YASSER ARAFAH, ANDMOURADHENCHIRI

SESSION 6: ALGORITHMS AND COMPUTER SIMULATION SESSION CHAIR: DR. SAID YOUNISSESSION CO-CHAIR: DR. KADHIM AHMAD

CONSTRAINT BASED MINING OF INTERESTING TEMPORAL ASSOCIATION RULESAUTHORS: HALIMA M. MOFLEH AND SAMAH A. AL-ARIKI

IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPLEX WAVELET PACKET MODULATION SYSTEM USING FPGA PLATFORM AUTHORS: HIKMAT N. ABDULLAH, FADHIL S. HASSAN, AND ALEJANDRO VALENZUELA2

APPLICATION-BASED STATISTICAL APPROACH TO IDENTIFYING QUEUING MODELAUTHORS: NAIMEH HIRBAWI AND BADIE SARTAWI

ALGORITHMIC SYNTHESIS OF SWITCHED MODE POWER SUPPLIES SMPSAUTHOR: MURAD AHMED ALI TAHER

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DAY 2: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2014 (CON’T.)A PROPOSED PROTOTYPE OF COOPERATIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR HOSPITALS IN GCC COUNTRIES AUTHOR: MOHAMMAD HAMEED AHMED AL-TAEI

NEW TRENDS FOR IMPROVING THE ACADEMIC ADVISING SYSTEMAUTHORS: RASHA SHAKIR ABDULWAHHAB, HUMOOD SALEM AL MAKHMARI, AND SULTAN NASSER AL BATTASHI

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14:00-16:00 TWO PARALLEL TUTORIAL SESSIONS

SESSION T1: DR. TARIQ JAMILTITLE: INTRODUCTION TO (-1+J)−BASE BINARY NUMBER SYSTEM SESSION CHAIR: DR. AHMED AL-JAMELSESSION CO-CHAIR: DR. ABDUL ADHEEM MOHAMMED

SESSION T2: PROF. IAN AKYILDIZTITLE: TRAFFIC ENGINEERING CHALLENGES FOR SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKS SESSION CHAIR: PROF. OSAMA BADAWYSESSION CO-CHAIR: DR. THAWWAR AL-NASERI

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DAY 3: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2014TIME

09:00-10:15

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ACTIVITYKEYNOTE SPEECH III: PROF. ALAN MARSHALL TITTLE: PUBLIC ACCESS WIRELESS NETWORKS:

VULNERABILITIES, DETECTION AND MITIGATION STRATEGIES

SESSION CHAIR: PROF. KHALID KHANFAR SESSION CO-CHAIR: DR. ALI JAMAL

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DAY 3: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2014 (CON’T.) 11:00-13:00 TWO PARALLEL PAPER SESSIONS

SESSION 7: INFORMATION SECURITY AND INVITED PAPER SESSION CHAIR: DR. MAHINDA ALAHAKOONSESSION CO-CHAIR: DR. KHIZAR HAYAT

INVITED PAPER: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING USING CUDA PROGRAMMING ON GPUSAUTHOR: PROF. THIAB TAHA

A SECURE CLOUD BASED ARCHITECTURE FOR A MUSLIM SPOUSE SEARCH WEBSITEAUTHORS: FOUAD ATOUI AND ADNAN SHAOUT

SECURITY SOLUTION FOR CLOUD COMPUTING USING A HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF AESAUTHORS: ADNAN SHAOUT, NEVRUSKAJA, AND MIKHAIL BOROVIKOV

ON THE SECURITY OF “A STRONG KEY MECHANISM GENERATED BY LFSR BASED VIGENÈRE CIPHER” AUTHORS: ESAM ELSHEH AND KHALIL ESSOWANI

SESSION 8: ARABIC LANGUAGE PROCESSING SESSION CHAIR: DR. MOHAMMED HASSAN SESSION CO-CHAIR: DR. ALAA ALJANABY

FUZZY ARABIC DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION AUTHORS: ALI EL-AMEEN AND ADNAN SHAOUT

WORD SENSE DISMABIGUATION IN ARABIC LANGUAGE PROCESSINGAUTHORS: REDA ZEBDI AND DJAMEL BENNOUAR

NOISE REMOVAL TECHNIQUES FOR ARABIC HANDWRITING AUTHORS: ROQYIAH M.ABDEEN, AHMED Z.AFIFI, AND ASHRAF B.ELSISI

AN EXTRACTIVE GRAPH-BASED ARABIC TEXT SUMMARIZATION APPROACHAUTHORS: AHMAD T. AL-TAANI AND MAHA M. AL-OMOUR

A MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE A STATISTICAL POS TAGGER FOR ARABIC LANGUAGEAUTHORS: AZZEDINE MAZROUI AND NABIL ABABOU

BÉZIER CURVES TO RECOGNIZE MULTI-FONT ARABIC ISOLATED CHARACTERSAUTHORS: AZZEDINE MAZROUI AND AISSA KERKOUR ELMIAD

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DAY 3: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2014 (CON’T.)TIME ACTIVITY

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DAY 4: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2014TIME ACTIVITY VENUE

08:00-20:00 RECREATIONAL TRIP MUSCAT

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