INNOVATIONS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

NOVEMBER 19-21, 2006

Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai

PROGRAM

 

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 19

08:00-10:00 Registration

10:00-11:15 Welcome and Opening Ceremony

Opening Speech

HH Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Chairman of the Dubai Technology and Media Free Zone Authority

Keynote Speech 1

Bill Thomas

Executive Vice President, EDS

Unlocking the Transformational Power of IT

 

Keynote Speech 2

Peter Freeman

Assistant Director of National Science Foundation (NSF)

The Innovation Eco-system and Economic Development

11:15-11:30 Break

11:30-12:30 Discussion Panel

Topic

Technology Production in the Middle East: Barriers & Opportunities

Members

Mohamed Baka (IT Advisor to the Chairman, ADWEA), Peter Freeman (Assistant Director of National Science Foundation), Bill Thomans (Executive Vice President, EDS), Hanns Windele (Vice President Europe, Mentor Graphics), Yervant Zorian (Vice President and Chief Scientist, Virage Logic; Vice President, IEEE Computer Society) and Mitra Jay (Founding Professor of Business Enterprise and Innovation at the University of Essex)

12:30-14:00  Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 1: 14:00 – 15:40 (Sunday, November 19)

Session 1A: Wireless Sensor Networks,  Chairs: Mohsen Guizani, UAE University and  Raed M. Shubair, Etisalat University

Alexandre

Caminada

Universite de Technologie Belfort-Montbeliard

FRANCE

Oumaya Baala

Location Precision in Indoor Positioning System

Jassim

Samhan

Etisalat University

UAE

 Raed M. Shubair, M.A.Al-Qutayri

Design and Implementation of an Adaptive Smart Antenna System

 

Mohsin 

 

Samahi

Etisalat University

UAE

  Raed M. Shubair

Performance of Smart Antenna Systems for Signal Detection and Estimation in Multipath Fading Environment

Hafiz

Farooq Ahmad

National University of Science and Technology

PAKISTAN

   Rabia Iqbal

Secure Dynamic Key Management for Sensor Networks

Iman

Saleh

Virginia Tech

USA

Hesham El-Sayed. Mohamed Eltoweissy

A Fault Tolerance Management Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks

 

Session 1B: Web Technology, Chairs: Soraya Kouadri Moustefaoui, Oxford Brooks University and Zakaria Maamar. Zayed University

Olivier

Thiebaut

University of Teesside

UK

Alan Jones

A Web-Service Application for Ubiquitous Response to Emergency Situations in Hazardous Environments

Zakir

 Laliwala

Dhirubhai Ambani
Institute of Information & Communication Technology

INDIA

Sanjay Chaudhary

Event-Driven Dynamic Web Services Composition: From Modeling to Implementation

Elarbi

Badidi

UAE University

UAE

Larbi Esmah, Adel Serhani, Mohamed Elkoutbi

WS-QoSM: A Broker-based Architecture for Web Services QoS Management

M. Arguello

Casteleiro

University of Salford

UK

Atif El-Hasia

Construction Knowledge Exchange: a case study of exploiting Semantics for Web Mining

Hend

Al-Khalifa

Southampton University

UK

Hugh C. Davis

Measuring the Semantic Value of Folksonomies

 

Session 1C: Knowledge Management 1, Chairs: Zoheir Ezziane, Dubai University and Ahmed Guessoum, Sharjah University

Khalid

Al-Mabrouk

University of Southern Queensland

AUSTRALIA

 

Critical Success Factors Affecting Knowledge Management Adoption: A Review of the Literature

Kenneth A.

 Grant

Ryerson University

CANADA

Umair Quereshi

Knowledge Management Systems -- Why So Many Failures?

Piers

Campbell

UAE University

UAE

Ken Adamson

Towards DSS: Enhancing Domain Knowledge through Knowledge Discovery

Khalid

 Al-Mabrouk

University of Southern Queensland

AUSTRALIA

Jeffrey Soar

Identification of Major Issues for Successful IT Transfer in the Arab World: The Preliminary Results

Bashar

  Al-Rawi

American University of Sharjah

UAE

Fadi  Aloul

Solving Employee Timetabling Problems Using Boolean Satisfiability

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 1D: Wireless Communications, Chairs: Wathiq Mansour,  American University in Dubai and Maamar Bettayeb, Sharjah University

Amr

Mohamed Hussein Alnuweiri

University or British Columbia

CANADA

 

Cross-layer Framework for Rate Allocation in Heterogeneous Wireless Multicast

Ezedin

Barka

UAE University

UAE

Mohammed Boulmalf, Amal Alteniji, Hanadi Al Suwaidi, Huda Khazaimy, Meera Al Mansouri

Impact of Security on the Performance of Wireless- Local Area Networks

Camille

Gaspard

American University of Beirut

LEBANON

Ayman Kayssi, Ali Chehab

ODYSSEY: Policy-Driven Anonymizer for Handheld Wireless Devices Privacy

Abbas

Mohammadi

Amirkabir University

IRAN

Roya E. Rezagah

Characterization of the Scalability of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks under Channel Constraints

 Ahn

Chang-Juni

Hiroshima City University

JAPAN

Satoshi Takahash, Makoto Taromaru

Transmit Sector Selection with Considering the Link Correlation for SDM/OFDM Systems

15:40-16:00: Break

 

 

Session 2: 16:00-17:40 (Sunday, November 19)

Session 2A: Information Systems, Chairs: Hazem El-Khatib, UAE University  and Alain Hennebelle, Emirates Advanced Investments

Wail M.

Omar

Liverpool John Moores University

UK

A. Taleb-Bendiab

Defining An Ontology For E-Health Autonomic Software Services

Madjid

Merabti

Liverpool John Moores University

UK

Abir Jaafar Hussain, Rozaida Ghazali,  Dhiya Al-Jumeily,

Dynamic Ridge Polynomial Neural Network for Financial Time Series Prediction

Bassam

 Ahmad

Sohar University

OMAN

Wail M. Omar, A. Taleb-Bendiab

Autonomic Grid Overlay For Managing Financial Applications

Fariba

Shadabi

University of Canberra

AUSTRALIA

 

Learning from Ensembles: Using Artificial Neural Network Ensemble for Medical Outcomes Prediction

Rob

 MacGregor

University of Wollongong

AUSTRALIA

P.N. Hyland, C. Harvie and B.C. Lee

An Examination of the Driving Forces Behind ICT Adoption in Australian Rural and Regional Medical Practices

 

                                                                                                                                                              

Session 2B: Telecommunication, Chairs: Khaled Shuaib, UAE University and Soumaya Cherkaoui, University of Sherbrooke

Laith Awda

Kadhim

UOT

IRAQ

 

Ultrawide 83-nm 3 dB Gain-Band using Raman Amplifiers for WDM Long Distance Transmission

Rashida

Hashim

Sharjah University

UAE

Qassim Nasir, Saad Harous

Adaptive Multi-path QoS Aware Dynamic Source Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Network

Mohammad

 Al-Qudah

Sharjah University

UAE

Lami  Kaya

An Interactive Visual Debugging Tool for Viterbi Trellis Decoding of 2D Codes

M.

Alnuaimi

UAE University

UAE

K. Shuaib, I. Jawhar

Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.15.4 Physial Layer Using
MatLab/Simulink

Sahel

Alouneh

Concordia University

CANADA

Anjali Agarwal, Abdeslam En-Nouaary

A Novel Approach for Fault Tolerance in MPLS Networks

Session 2C: Knowledge Management 2, Chairs: Piers Campbell, UAE University and Margaret Tan, Nanyang Technological University

Dalia

Kriksciuniene

Vilnius University

LITHUANIA

Ingrida Sarkiunaite, Virgilijus Sakalauskas

Evaluating Return on Computer Literacy of the Enterprise with ECDL

Beverley

Hope

UAE University

UAE

Sally Dexter

ICT and Social Capital in the Knowledge Economy

Mikko

Siponen

Oulu University

FINLAND

Seppo Pahnila, Adam M. Mahmood

Factors Influencing to Protection Motivation and IS Security Policy Compliance

Ross

King

University of Wales

UK

May Lwin, Ross King, Jerome Williams

Privacy, Data Fabrication, and Knowledge Discovery in Databases

Amin Milani

Fard

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

IRAN

Hoda Akbari,

Mohammad -R. Akbarzadeh -T

Fuzzy Adaptive Resonance Theory for Content-Based Data Retrieval

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 2D: E-Business 1, Chairs: Habib Al-Assaad, ORACLE and  Ramadan S. Ben Amer, EFORS

Abass

Oyindamola

Brunel University

UK

Gheorghita Ghinea

Electronic Negotiation Frameworks: A Snapshot of the State of The Art

Yaqoob

Siyal

Nanyang Technological University

SINGAPORE

B S Chowdhry,  A Q Rajput

The Adoption of E-Commerce by Overseas Sindhis: An Empirical Study

Lejla

Vrazalic

University of Wollongong

AUSTRALIA

Rob MacGregor

Sector Driven Variations on E-commerce Adoption Barriers in Regional Small Businesses: An Australian Study

Heinz

Kreft

University of
Kiel

GERMANY

Wael Adi

fairCASH – A Digital Cash Candidate for the Proposed GCC Gulf Dinar

Ibrahim

Mahmoud

Etisalat University

UAE

Jawad Berri

Enabling Cooperative E-Commerce on the Web

17.40-18.00 Break

 

Session 3: 18:00 – 19:40 (Sunday, November 19)

Session 3A: Security and Privacy 1, Chairs: Ezedin Barka, UAE University and Farhad Keissarian, Wollongong University in Dubai

Omar

Khadeer Hussain

Curtin University of Technology;

AUSTRALIA

Elizabeth Chang, Farookh Khadeer Hussain, C Tharam Dillon

Towards Ascertaining Risk in Digital Business EcoSystem Interactions

Mohammad

Amir Moulavi

Azad University of Mashhad

IRAN

Hossein Parvar

Secure Key Management in Hierarchical Group Communication Using Agents

Adel

Bouhoula

Ecole Supérieure des Communications de Tunis

TUNISIA

Zoheir Trabelsi

Handling Anomalies in Distributed Firewalls

Mohammad

Al-Jarrah

Yarmouk University

JORDAN

Abdel-Karim R. Tamimi,

A Thin Security Layer Protocol Over IP Protocol on TCP/IP Suite for Security Enhancement

Mohammed

Misbahuddin

Maulana Azad National Urdu University

INDIA

M.H. Shastri, Nanded,
Mohammed Aijaz Ahmed

 A Simple and Efficient Solution to Remote User Authentication Using Smart cards

 

Session 3B: Network Applications, Chairs: Khalid Khawaja, American University in Dubai and Abderrafi Belfakih, Cisco Systems

Mohamed

 Kheir

German University in Cairo

EGYPT

Adel Abdin, Essam Hashish

An Extremely Compact UWB Microstrip Annular Ring Filter for Bluetooth Applications

Norrozila

Sulaiman

Newcastle University

UK

Rolando Carrasco,  Graeme Chester

Analyzing the Performance of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in a 3G network

Sami

 Habib

Kuwait University

KUWAIT

Mohammad Gh. Mohammad

Q8WARE: Synthesis Tool for Network-on-Chip Applications

Abderahmane

Lakas

UAE University

UAE

Mohammed Boulmalf

Study of the Effect of Mobility Hand-Over on VoIP over WLAN

Fisseha

Mekuria

GSTIT

ETHIOPIA

Ewan  Sutherland

Future Networks and Services in Sub-Saharan Africa

Session 3C: Web Applications, Chair: Adel Serhani, UAE University and Emad Bataineh, Zayed University

Samhaa

R. El-Beltagy

Cairo University

EGYPT

Ehab Abdel-Hamid Mohamed, Salwa El-Gamal

A Feature Reduction Technique for Improved Web Page Clustering

A. Ziad

Hatahet

Modelware Inc.

USA

Y.C. Chehadeh, A. E. Agamy, Mohamed A. Bamakhrama, A. Banawan

Investigating Distribution of Data of HTTP Traffic: An Empirical Study

Hugh

C. Davis

Southampton University

UK

 Hend Al-Khalifa

FolksAnnotation: A Semantic Metadata Tool for Annotating Learning Resources Using Folksonomies and Domain Ontologies

Tse-Ming

Tsai

Institute for Information Industry

TAIWAN

Chia-Chun Shih, Seng-cho T. Chou

Personalized Blog Recommendation Using Value, Semantic, and Social Model

Houda

Nakkach

University Manouba-ENSI

TUNISIA

Naoufel Kraiem, Henda Ben Ghezala

Identification of the Web Services Starting from the Existing Web applications

Milos

Kudelka

Technical University of Ostrava

CZECH REPUBLIC

Vaclav Snasel, Eyas El-Qawasmeh, Ondrej Lehecka

Internet Searching Using Web Patterns

 

Session 3D: Mobile Applications, Chairs: Jawad Berri, Etisalat University and Christoph Koehler, IBM

Mohammad

Shirali-Shahreza

Sharif University of Technology

IRAN

Sajad Shirali-Shahreza

Preventing Mobile Software Cracking Using CAPTCHA

Ricardo

De Oliveira Anido

State University of Campinas

BRASIL

Hiata Anderson

QuickFrame - A Fast Development Tool for Mobile Applications

Hye Sun

Lee

Yonsei University

KOREA

Bong Gyou Lee, Lee, Chi Hyung

Analysis of the Actual Response Rates in Mobile Advertising

Muhammad

Aiman Mazlan

Motorola Multimedia

MALAYSIA

 

Stress Test on J2ME Compatible Mobile Device

Nabil

Al-Qirim

UAE University

UAE

 

Mobile Commerce Technologies Penetration in Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises in New Zealand

20:00-  GALA DINNER: CISCO Research Award and Distinguished Scholar Award

 

 

MONDAY NOVEMBER 20

Session 4: 9:20 – 11:00 (Monday, November 20)

Session 4A: Human Computer Interaction, Chair: Naoufel Werghi, Dubai University and and Ghassan Al-Qaimari, Fujairah College

M

Awais

Lahore University of Management Sciences

PAKISTAN

S Shamail, S Masud, W Ahmad

Continuous Arabic Speech Segmentation Using FFT Spectrogram

Muhammad Sarwar

Ehsan

Graz University of Technology

AUSTRIA

Gernot Kubin

Frame Change Ratio: A Measure to Model Short-Time Stationarity of Speech

Werner

Winiwarter

University of Vienna

AUSTRIA

 

WETCAT- Web-Enabled Translation Using Corpus-Based Acquisition of Transfer Rules

Yuki

Arase

Osaka University

JAPAN

Takahiro Hara, Toshiaki Uemukai,  Shojiro Nishio

Nine-Button Web Browsing System for Cellular Phone Users

 

Session 4B: Tutorial 1, Pervasive Computing, Chair: Abdelrahmane Al-Ali, American University of Sharjah and Ghassan Kbar, American University of Dubai

Presenter

Sajal Das, University Distinguished Scholar Professor. Director, Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN), University of Texas at Arlington

Topic

Smart Environments – Technology, Protocols and Applications

 

 

Session 4C: Software Applications, Chair: Saad Harous, Sharjah University and Adel khelifi, Al-Hosn University

Kee

Woi Hin

Motorola Multimedia

MALAYSIA

 

Future Implementation and Integration of Agile Method in Software Development and Testing

Toufik

Taibi

UAE University

UAE

 Taieb Mkadmi

Generating Java Code from Design Patterns Formalized in BPSL

Khaled

Hamdan

UAE University

UAE

Hazem El Khatib, John Moses, Peter Smith

A Software Cost Ontology System for Assisting Estimation of Software Project Effort for Use with Case Based Reasoning

 Mohammed

El-Korek

American University of Sharjah

UAE

Taha Landolsi, A. R. Al-Ali, Yousel Al-Assef, Rawan Aloul

Portable Integrated Multi-Signal Patient Monitoring System

Sid Ahmed

Benlazaar

University of Oran

ALGERIA

Belbachir Hafida,

Hemerlain Dalila

Cybernetic Behavior of the Intelligents Agent ConRaider

11.00-11.20  Break

 

Session 5: 11:20 – 13:00 (Monday, November 20)

Session 5A: Invited VIP Session: New Generation IT, Chair: Ibrahim Hajj, Dean, American University of Beirut

Muhammad

Hussain

VP, Business Development, IBM

Innovation for the 21st Century...

 

Mitra

Jay

Professor, Essex University

New Horizons for Information and Communications Technology: The Entrepreneurial Perspective

Ali

Faramawy

VP Europe, Africa & Middle-East, Microsoft

Enabling IT for a People Ready Business

Swami

Manohar

President, PicoPeta

OpenAlchemy: An Alternate handheld UI


 

Session 5B: Tutorial 1: Pervasive Computing (Con't), Chair: Abdelrahmane Al-Ali, American University of Sharjah and Ghassan Kbar, American University of Dubai

Presenter

Sajal Das, University Distinguished Scholar Professor. Director, Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN), University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Topic

Smart Environments – Technology, Protocols and Applications

13.00-14:00  Lunch Break

 

 

Session 6: 14:00 – 15:40 (Monday, November 20)

Session 6A: Data  Mining, Chairs: Denis Pechnov, Olivercom LLC and Ghassan Qaddah, American University in Sharjah

Omar

Boussaid

University of Lyon 2

FRANCE

Riadh Ben Messaoud, Sabine Loudcher

Mining Association Rules in OLAP Cubes

Guanling

Lee

National Dong Hwa University

TAIWAN

Yuh-Tzu Lin

A Study on Proportional Fault-tolerant Data Mining

Mustafa Mat

Deris

College University Technology Tun Hussein Onn

MALAYSIA

Wan Shuhadah Wan Nawang , Mamat Rabiei

Update-Ordering for Database Consistency in Peer -to-peer Environments

Minghua

Pei

Osaka University

JAPAN

Shinichi Taniguchi, Shiga University, Takahiro Hara, Shojiro Nishio

Discovering Important Rules and Loyal Customer by Considering the Repetition in Association Rules

Samhaa

R. El-Beltagy

Cairo University

EGYPT

 

KP-Miner: A Simple System for Effective Keyphrase Extraction

 

Session 6B: Tutorial 2: Quality Assurance, Chairs: Ahmed Jaffar, UAE University  and Laila Taher, Dubai Roads & Transport Authority

Presenter

Raed H. Charafeddine, Assistant General Manager and Head of Branch Network, Fransabank, Lebanon

Topic

Leading Change: A Choice or a Must?

 

 

Session 6C: Security and Privacy 2, Chairs: Hassan Barada, Etisalat University and Ahmed Qadri, Emirates Computers

Sabah

Al-Fedaghi

Kuwait University

KUWAIT

 

Personal Management of Private Information

Ali

Chehab

American University in Beirut

LEBANON

Wassim Itani, Ayman Kayssi

SECERN: A Secure Enterprise Backup and Recovery Protocol for Mission-Critical Relational Database Servers

Khaled

Kevin Deeb

 Barry University

USA

 

Efficiency, Privacy, and Security Analysis of Ubiquitous Systems in the Retail Industry

Safuat

Hamdy

UAE University

UAE

 

Computations in Class Groups of Imaginary Quadratic Number Fields

Mahmood

Doroodchi

Cardinal Stritch University

USA

Kayvan Farzaneh

XML Security beyond XSLT

15:40 – 16:00 Break

 

Session 7: 16:00 – 17:40 (Monday, November 20)

Session 7A: E-Business 2, Chairs: Peter Fettke, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Maged Wassim, IBM

Jayavel

Sounderpandian

University of Wisconsin-Parkside

USA

Rajendra V. Boppana, Suresh Chalasani

Cost-Benefit Analysis of RFID Implementations in Retail Stores

Thomas

Menkhoff

Singapore Management Universit

SINGAPORE

Yue Wah Chay, Benjamin Loh, Hans-Dieter Evers

Creating Knowledge through Combination – A Case Study from Singapore

Thierry

Bodhun

Research Centre On Software Technology

ITALY

Rosa Preziosi, Maria Tortorella 

Building an RFID Document Management Service

Abir

Jaafar Hussain

Liverpool John Moores University

UK

Rozaida Ghazal, Dhiya Al-Jumeily, Madjid Merabti

Dynamic Ridge Polynomial Neural Network for Financial Time Series Prediction

Peter

Fettke

Institute of Information Systems

GERMANY

 Peter Loos

Using Reference Models for Business Engineering - State-of-the-Art and Future Developments

 

Session 7B: Tutorial 2: Quality Assurance (Cont’d), Chairs: : Ahmed Jaffar, UAE University and Laila Taher, Dubai Roads & Transport Authority

Presenter

Raed H. Charafeddine, Assistant General Manager and Head of Branch Network, Fransabank, Lebanon

Topic

Leading Change: A Choice or a Must?

 

 

 

Session 7C: Computer Systems, Chairs:  Valerieu Beiu, UAE University and Sam Al-Schamma, INTEL

Bruce

Mills

UAE University

UAE

P. W. Chandana Prasad,   V.C. Prasad

Benchmark Circuit Complexity Validation using Binary Decision Diagram Characteristics

Fadi

Sibai

UAE University

UAE

 

Dissecting the PCMark®05 Benchmark and Assessing Performance Scaling

Said

Elnaffar

UAE University

UAE

Pat Martin

Techniques and a Framework for Characterizing Computer Systems' Workloads

Nguyen

The Loc

Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

JAPAN

Said Elnaffar, Takuya Katayama, Ho Tu Bao

Grid Scheduling using 2-Phase Prediction (2PP) of CPU Power

Sedigheh

Khajoueinejad

Islamic Azad University of Mashhad

IRAN

Mojtaba Sabeghi, Azam Sadeghzadeh

A Fuzzy Cache Replacement Policy and its Experimental Performance Assessment

Naeem Z

Azeemi

Technical University of Vienna

AUSTRIA

 

Multicriteria Energy Efficient Source Code Compilation for Dependable Embedded Applications

 

 

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 21

Session 8: 9-20 – 11:00 (Tuesday, November 21)

Session 8A: Multimedia 1,  Chairs: Jihad Mohaidat, Dubai Silicon Oasis and Yaqoob Siyal, Nanyang Technological University

Shahnaz

Behnami

University of Sorbonne

FRANCE

 

Advanced E-access Content Filimage System: Synthesis File cards through Automatic Images-Captions Web-Pages Extraction

Attaullah

Solangi

UET Texila

PAKISTAN

Yaqoob Siyal

A Novel Morphological Edge Detector Based Approach For Monitoring Vehicles At Traffic Junctions

Tetsuji

Takada

University of Electro-Communications

JAPAN

Takehito Onuki, Hideki Koike

Awase-E: Recognition-based Image Authentication Scheme Using User's Personal Photographs

Habib

Hamam

University of Moncton

CANADA

Daniel LeBlanc, Yacine Benahmed, Sid-Ahmed Selouani, Yassine Bouslimani

Computer interface by gesture and voice for users with special needs

Yaqoob

Siyal

Nanyang Technological University

SINGAPORE

Fawad Ahmed

A Novel Hashing Scheme For Image Authentication

 

Session 8B: E-Government, Chairs: Hassan Selim, UAE University and Hashem Al-Refaei, RAK E-Government

Torki

Altameem

Brunel University

UK

 

A Proposed Model for E-Government Implementation

Kashif

Farooq

Lahore University of Management Sciences

PAKISTAN

S Shamail, M Awais

Devolution of E-Governance among Multilevel Government Structure

Selma 

Limam Mansar

Zayed University

UAE

 

E-Government Implementation: Impact On Business Processes

Mohammed

 Abu Jayyab

American University of Sharjah

UAE

Salim Al Ahdab,Hazem Taji, Zahra Al Hamdani,Fadi Aloul

PolluMap: A Pollution Mapper for Cities

Jennifer

Decruz Owen Allan

School of Advanced Computing

MAURITIUS

Narainee Rambajun, Sanjay P Sood,  Victor Mbarika,  Rajeev Agrawal, Zia Saquib

The E-Government Concept: A Systematic Review of Research and Practitioner Literature

 

Session 8C: Multimedia 2, Chairs: Ashraf Elnagar, Sharjah University and  Andrea Emillian,  IBM

Jan Carlo

 Barca

Monash University;

AUSTRALIA

Grace Rumantir,  Raymond Koon Li

A New Illuminated Contour-Based Marker System for Optical Motion Capture

Naeem

Radi

Liverpool John Moores University

UK

Abir Jaafar Hussain, Dhiya Al-Jumeily

Adaptive Variable-Length Quantiser for Image Compression

Athanasios

Drigas

N.C.S.R. 'Demokritos', IIT, Net Media Lab

GREECE

Stelios Kouremenos, Dimitris Kouremenos,

Performance Evaluation of Sign-Language Videoconference Traffic

Abbas 

Bigdeli

National ICT Australia Ltd.

AUSTRALIA

Abdolhossein Sarrafzadeh, Samuel Alexander, Farhad Dadgostar, Chao Fan

See Me, Teach Me: Facial Expression and Gesture Recognition for Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Tamer

Rabie

UAE University

UAE

 

A Novel Compression Technique for Super Resolution Color Photography

 

Session 8D: Tutorial 3:  Information Security, Chairs: Safuat Hamdy, UAE University and Habib Telhami, British University in Dubai

Presenters

Fadi Aloul, American University of Sharjah, UAE
Ahmed El-Khatib, PointSec Inc, SWEDEN

Topic

Information Security: From Theory to Practice

 

Session 8E: Tutorial 4: Web Services, Chair: Zakaria Maammar, Zayed University

Presenter

Soraya Kouadri Moustefaoui, Associate Professor, Oxford University, UK

Topic

Best Practices in Web Services: "Paving the Way to SOA Success"

11.00-11:20 Break

 

Session 9: 11:20 - 13:00 (Tuesday, November 21)

Session 9A: Tutorial 3:  Information Security (Cont'd) Chairs: Safuat Hamdy, UAE University and Habib Telhami, Br9itish University in Dubai

Presenters

Fadi Aloul, American University of Sharjah, UAE
Ahmed El-Khatib, PointSec Inc, SWEDEN

Topic

Information Security: From Theory to Practice

 

Session 9B: Tutorial 4: Web Services (Cont'd), Chair: Zakaria Maammar, Zayed University

Presenter

Soraya Kouadri Moustefaoui, Associate Professor, Oxford Brooks University, UK

Topic

Best Practices in Web Services: "Paving the Way to SOA Success”

13.00-14.00 Lunch, Closing Ceremony and Best Paper Award Announcement

 

Session 9C: Special Exhibit, Chair:  Samer Ajrouche, HYPERLINK

Presenters

Dr. Ahmad Jaffar, Associate Professor, UAE University, UAE
Dr.
Mulhim Al-Doori, Associate Professor, American University in Dubai, UAE

Topic

E-Business Walkthrough using an ERP portal