Technical Program

  Monday, November 28 Tuesday, November 29
7:30 ‑ 8:00 Registration & Light Breakfast   Registration & Light Breakfast
8:00 ‑ 9:00   Keynote III : Learning, data representations, and the development of companion technology
9:00 ‑ 9:45 Student Poster Sesion D2S3: Breakout Session: Internet Applications II
D2S1: Breakout Session: Internet Applications I
D2S2: Breakout Session: Security
9:45 ‑ 10:15 Openning Ceremony
10:15 ‑ 10:45 Keynote I: Introduction To Data Value
10:45 ‑ 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 ‑ 11:15 Tutorial II: MDD + DSL = Software Development on Steroids
11:15 ‑ 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 ‑ 12:30 Keynote II: The Future of Information Security
12:30 ‑ 14:00 Lunch Lunch
14:00 ‑ 15:45 D1S3: Breakout Session: Circuits
D1S1: Breakout Session: Communication & Networks
D1S2: Breakout Session: Education & eHealth
D2S6: Breakout Session: Data Mining & Analytics
D2S4: Breakout Session: NLP & Text Mining
D2S5: Breakout Session: IoT & Social Networks
15:45 ‑ 16:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break
16:00 ‑ 17:00 Tutorial I: Using the Cloud for Teaching and Research Tutorial III: How and Why blockchain will revolutionize the economy?
17:00 ‑ 17:30  
17:30 ‑ 18:00      
18:00 ‑ 19:00      
19:00 ‑ 21:00     Gala Dinner

 

Day 1: Monday, November 28, 2016

Poster Session

Time:     09:00 - 12:15, 13:45 – 17:00

Room:   Function Area

 

Keynote I: Introduction To  Data Values

Presenter: Steve Todd, DELL Technologies Fellow ,VP of Corporate Strategy and Innovation, DELL EMC

Time:     10:00 - 11:00

Room: Auditorium

 

Keynote II: The Future of Information Security

Presenter: Prof. Bart Preneel, University of Leuven, Dept. Electrical Eng.-ESAT, COSIC. Belgium

Time:     11:30 - 12:30

Room: Auditorium

 

Tutorial I: Using the Cloud for Teaching and Research

Presenter: Khaled Salah, Professor, ECE Department, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, UAE.

Time:     13:30 – 15:00                 

Room: 1028

 

D1S1: Breakout Session: Communication & Networks

Session Chair: Dr. Shaza Hanif, University of Sharjah

Time: 15:15 – 17:00 

Room: 1027

 

New Model of Emergency Communication for Disaster Relief in Remote Areas

Abdulrahman E. Aburawi (Malmo University, Sweden);

Sarija Salic (Sweden);

Magnus Krampell (Malmo University, Sweden)

 

Random-Valued Impulse Noise Removal using Group Sparse Modeling

Divya Velayudhan and Salim Paul (SCT College of Engineering, India)

 

Capacity Analysis of Amplify-and-Forward Based Dual-Hop Free Space Optical Communication System With Backup RF Link

Khaled Alhamawi and Essam Saleh Altubaishi (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)

 

Challenges and Opportunities for Underwater Sensor Networks

Adil A Sheikh (Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia);
Emad Felemban (Umm Al Qura University, Saudi Arabia);
Muhamad Felemban (Purdue, USA);

Saad B. Qaisar (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), NUST & National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan)

 

An Adaptive Kalman Filter based Traffic Prediction Algorithm for Urban Road Network

Zeeshan Hameed Mir (Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE);

Fethi Filali (QMIC, Qatar)

 

D1S2:     Breakout Session: Education & eHealth

Session Chair: Dr. Qusay H. Mahmoud, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Time:     15:15 – 17:00

Room:   1028

 

User interactivity in eHealth applications: a novel taxonomy

Muhammad Hashim (United Arab Emirates University, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE)

 

Capstone Project On Speech Morphing: A Highlight To Undergraduate Education On Signal Processing

Luis Weruaga (Proactivaudio, Austria); Abdulqader Nael Mahmoud (Khalifa University, UAE);

Raed Shubair (Khalifa University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UAE)

 

Revolutionizing the Healthcare of the Future Through Nanomedicine: Opportunities and Challenges

Hadeel Elayan (Khalifa University, UAE);

Raed Shubair (Khalifa University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UAE); Nawaf Almoosa (Khalifa University, UAE)

 

A Framework for Building Undergraduate Student Research Skills Through an Independent Engineering Study Course

Hadeel Elayan (Khalifa University, UAE);

Raed Shubair (Khalifa University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UAE); Mohamed Ibrahim AlHajri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UAE);

Abdulrahman Goian (Khalifa University, UAE)

 

Continuous Health Monitoring using Smartphones - A Case-Study for Monitoring Diabetic Patients in UAE

Aravassery Jihad (United Arab Emirates University, UAE);

Sujith Samuel Mathew (Zayed University & University of Adelaide, UAE);

Sujni Paul (Al Dar University College, UAE)

 

D1S3: Breakout Session: Circuits

Session Chair: Mohd Helmy Abd Wahab, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia

Time: 15:15 – 17:00

Room: 1022

 

Modeling the Failure Probabilities of CMOS Logic Cells

Azam Beg (United Arab Emirates University, UAE);

Ifrah Jaffri (Habib University, Pakistan)

 

Formal Specification, Refinement, and Implementation of Path Planning

Eman Rabiah (United Arab Emirates University, UAE);

Boumediene Belkhouche (United Arab Emirates University, UAE)

 

Reconfigurable Triple Notched-Band Ultra Wideband Antenna

Boualem Hammache (Université des Frères Mentouri, Constantine, Algeria);

Abderraouf Messai (University of Constantine 1, Algeria);

Idris Messaoudene (Research Center in Industrial Technologies CRTI, Algeria); Mohammed Amin Meriche (INRS, Algeria);

Massinissa Belazzoug (Université de Bordj Bou Arréridj, Algeria);

Farouk Chetouah (Université Ferhat Abbas, Algeria)

 

Miniaturized Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna for WCS Standards

Farouk Chetouah (Université Ferhat Abbas, Algeria);

Nacerdine Bouzit (Laboratoire Instrumentation Scientifique, Algeria);

Idris Messaoudene (Research Center in Industrial Technologies CRTI, Algeria);

Salih Aidel (University of Bordj Bou Arreridj, Algeria);

Massinissa Belazzoug (Université de Bordj Bou Arréridj, Algeria);

Boualem Hammache (Université des Frères Mentouri, Constantine, Algeria)

 

A Reconfigurable Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna for WiMAX/WLAN Applications

Massinissa Belazzoug (Université de Bordj Bou Arréridj, Algeria);

Salih Aidel (University of Bordj Bou Arreridj, Algeria);

Idris Messaoudene (Research Center in Industrial Technologies CRTI, Algeria);

Boualem Hammache (Université des Frères Mentouri, Constantine, Algeria);

Farouk Chetouah (Université Ferhat Abbas, Algeria);

Youcef Braham Chaouche (University Of Mohamed Elbachir Elibrahimi, Algeria)

 

Day 2: Tuesday, November 29, 2016

 

Keynote III:         Learning, data representations, and the development of companion technology

Presenter: Günther Palm, Director, Institute of Neural Information Processing University of Ulm, Germany

Time:     08:00 – 09:00

Room: Auditorium

 

Tutorial II: MDD + DSL = Software Development on Steroids

Presenter: Maged Elaasar, Senior Software Architect, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

Time: 09:00 - 10:30

Room: 1028

 

D2S1: Breakout Session: Internet Applications I

Session Chair: Dr. Saad Harous, UAE University

Time: 10:45 – 12:30

Room: 1027

 

Analysis and classification of Arabic crowd-sourced news reports: A case study of the Syrian crisis

Mohammad Fraiwan, Bayan Younes, Omar M Al-Jarrah and Natheer Khasawneh (Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan)

 

Two Dimensional Filters for Enhancing the Resolution of Interpolated CT Scan Images

Abdulqader Nael Mahmoud and Fatma Taher (Khalifa University, UAE);

Hussain Al-Ahmad (University of Dubai, UAE)

 

Synchronous Shared Experience: Architecture for Synchronization Support

Shahab Ud Din (Higher Colleges of Technologies, Sharjah, UAE);

Shaza Hanif (University of Sharjah, UAE)

 

iCrowd - A Framework for Monitoring of (Identifiable) Crowd

Sheikh Saeed (University of Management and Technology, Lahore & TCMCORE Umm al Qura University, Makkah, Pakistan);

Adnan Abid (University of Management and Technology, Pakistan);

Ehsan Ullah Warriach (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Shahbaz Awan (Umm Al Qura University, Saudi Arabia);

Atif Naseer (Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia);

Emad Felemban (Umm Al Qura University, Saudi Arabia)

 

IEFP: An Application Layer Protocol for Islamic Electronic Fatawa Management and Security

Eyad Taqieddin (Jordan University of Science and Technology, USA);

Yarub Wahsheh (Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan)

 

D2S2: Breakout Session: Security

Session Chair: Dr. Marton Gergely, UAE University

Time: 10:45 – 12:30

Room: 1028

 

Secure kNN Queries over Outsourced Spatial Data for Location-based Services

Ayesha Talha (University of Sharjah, UAE);

Ibrahim Kamel (University of Sharjah & Concordia University, UAE);

Zaher Al Aghbari (University of SharjahUAE)

 

Watermarking for protected fingerprint authentication

Bousnina Naima (Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco);

Sanaa Ghouzali (King Saud University & College of Computer and Information Sciences, Saudi Arabia);

Maryam Lafkih (Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique et Télécommunication, Morocco);

Ohood Almohammadi (Taibah University, Saudi Arabia);

Mounia Mikram (The School of Information Sciences, Morocco);

Wadood Abdul (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia);

Driss Aboutajdine (CNRST & LRIT Mohammed V-agdal University, Morocco)

 

Authentication Enhancement Techniques for BAC in 2G E-Passport

Nermeen Mohamed AbdAl-Ghafour (Tanta University, Egypt);

Ayman A. Abdel-Hamid (Arab Academy For Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport, Egypt);

Mohamed El-Said Nasr and Salah Abdel-Ghani Khamis (Faculty of Engineering, Egypt)

 

Architectural Design of a Cloud-based reCAPTCHA Service

Hanin B. Abubaker (Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, UAE); Khaled Salah (Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, UAE);

Hassan Al-Muhairi (Khalifa University, UAE);

Ahmed Bentiba (University of Sharjah, UAE)

 

Algorithm for Secure Cloud Computing Is Based On Homomorphic Encryption And Multi-Party Computation

Debasis Das (BITS Pilani Goa Campus, India);

Amritesh Kumar (NIIT University, India)

 

Lightweight Encryption Algorithm in Wireless Body Area Network for e-Health monitoring

Azza Alshamsi and Ezedin Barka (UAE University, UAE)

 

D2S3: Breakout Session: Internet Applications II

Session Chair: Dr. Elfadil Abdalla Mohamed, Al Ain university of Science and Technology

Time: 10:45 – 12:30

Room: 1022

 

SADSA: Security Aware Distribution System Architecture for Smart Grid Applications

Hosam Hittini, Atef Abdrabou, and Liren Zhang (UAE University, UAE);

 

Two Dimensional Filters for Improving the Resolution of Up-Sampled Video Files

Khalid Alzarouni, Abdulqader Nael Mahmoud, Hamza Al Maharmeh and Fatma Taher (Khalifa University, UAE);

Hussain Al-Ahmad (University of Dubai, UAE)

 

Facial Features Monitoring for Real Time Drowsiness Detection

Manu BN (Independent Researcher, India)

 

Overview of Vehicle Grid Communication System and Charging Infrastructure and a Case Study of Economic and Environmental Benefits of Electric Vehicles in Nebraska

Alan Alahmad (MIT, USA);

Ala'a Rayyan and Fares Al Juheshi (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA);

Khaled Shuaib (United Arab Emirates University, UAE);

Mohammed Adel Abdel-Hafez (United Arab Emirates University, UAE);

Hamid Sharif (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA);

Nasser Aljuhaishi (Kuwait University, USA);

Mahmoud Alahmad (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA

 

Integration of Heterogeneous Data Sources in Smart Grid based on Summary Schema Model

Foroogh Sedighi (Niroo Research Institute, Iran);

Mahshid Helali Moghadam (University of Kashan, Iran)

 

Tutorial III: How and Why blockchain will revolutionize the economy?

Presenter: Dr. Rahma Beaugrand. Business Transformation and Innovation Principal,

                   SAP Middle East and North Africa LLC

Time: 13:30 - 15:00

Room: 1027

 

D2S4: Breakout Session: NLP & Text Mining

Session Chair: Dr. Sami Shaban, UAE University

Time: 15:15 – 17:00

Room: 1027

 

Candidate Document Retrieval for Arabic-based Text Reuse Detection on the Web

Leena Lulu (United Arab Emirates University, UAE);

Boumediene Belkhouche and Saad Harous (United Arab Emirates University, UAE)

 

Utilizing Long Distance Word Dependencies for Automatic Speech Recognition

Fawaz Al-Anzi and Dia AbuZeina (Kuwait University, Kuwait)

 

Analysis of Free-text Keystroke Dynamics for Arabic Language Using Euclidean Distance

Suliman Alsuhibany, Muna Almushyti, Noorah Alghasham and Fatimah Alkhudier (Qassim University, Saudi Arabia)

 

Overview of Fingerprinting Methods for Local Text Reuse Detection

Leena Lulu (United Arab Emirates University, UAE);

Boumediene Belkhouche and Saad Harous (United Arab Emirates University, UAE)

 

Review of Personalized Language Learning Systems

Heba Ismail (United Arab Emirates University, UAE);

Saad Harous and Boumediene Belkhouche (United Arab Emirates University, UAE)

 

D2S5: Breakout Session: IoT & Social Networks

Session Chair: Dr. Farag Sallabi, UAE University

Time: 15:15 – 17:00

Room: 1028

 

Social Desirability Bias in Software Piracy Research: Evidence from Pilot Studies

Marton Gergely (United Arab Emirates University, UAE);

V. Srinivasan (Chino) Rao (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)

 

On Detecting Communities in Social Networks with Interests

Mohammed Ba Hutair and Zaher Al Aghbari (University of Sharjah, UAE);

Ibrahim Kamel (University of Sharjah & Concordia University, UAE)

 

Internet of Things: Applications and Challenges

Khaled Al Rabaiei and Saad Harous (United Arab Emirates University, UAE)

 

Social Information Sharing and Friend Recommendation in Online Social Games

Alessandro Vizzarri (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy);

Fabrizio Davide (University Guglielmo Marconi, Italy)

 

From the Internet of Things to The Web of Things - Enabling by Sensing as-a Service

Sujith Samuel Mathew (Zayed University & University of Adelaide, UAE);

Yacine Atif (University of Skovde, Sweden);

May El Barachi (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates (UAE))

 

D2S6: Breakout Session: Data Mining & Analytics

Session Chair: Dr. Nazar Zaki, UAE University

Time: 15:15 – 17:00

Room: 1022                                                  

 

Identifying Roles of Fishing Ports using Multi-source Data Aggregation

William W.Y. Hsu (National Taiwan Ocean University);

Hao-Hsun Wang, Min-Ruey You, Min-Hsuan Lu and Hsin-Yu Tsai (National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan)

 

Semantic enterprise service bus for cultural heritage

Antonio Capodieci and Luca Mainetti (University of Salento, Italy);

Sergio Carrozzo (Università del Salento, Italy)

 

The Use of Data Mining Techniques to Predict Mortality and Length of Stay in an ICU

Alramzana Nujum Navaz (United Arab Emirates University, UAE);

Elfadil Mohammed (Al Ain University of Science and Technology, UAE);

Mohamed Adel Serhani and Nazar Zaki (United Arab Emirates University, UAE)

 

Ensemble Classification of Cyber Space Users Tendency in Blog Writing using Random Forest

Noor Azah Samsudin (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia);

Aida Mustapha (Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia);

Mohd Helmy Abd Wahab (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia)

 

Data Mining Techniques to Predict the Ranking of E- Government Services

Nayla Alkhatri (United Arab Emirates University, UAE),

Nazar Zaki (United Arab Emirates University, UAE),

Elfadil Mohammed (Al Ain University of Science and Technology (UAE)),

Musa Shallal (United Arab Emirates University, UAE)

 


Nov 24, 2016