AICCSA 2007 Final Program

"Under the Patronage of His Excellency Senator Professor Dr. Adnan Badran, Former Prime Minister of Jordan and Former Deputy Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)"


This is the AICCSA-2007 Technical Program (download it in PDF). The list of accepted papers is here.

After the Program at a Glance you can find the detailed program, with the list of papers to be presented in each day and session.


Social Events

  • Reception Hosted by Philadelphia University
    Monday Evening, May 14, 2007
  • Conference Banquette
    Tuesday Evening, May 15, 2007

Program At a Glance




Detailed Program



Sunday, May 13, 2007 


09:00 – 12:00: Morning Tutorials 

14:00 – 17:00: Afternoon Tutorials 



Monday, May 14, 2007 

09:00 – 10:00 : OPENING SESSION


Opening Remarks

Professor Dr. Mohammad S. Obaidat, IEEE Fellow, SCS Fellow, Senior Vice President of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS), Editor-in-Chief, Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems, Distinguished Speaker of IEEE Computer Society (1997-2000), Distinguished Speaker of ACM, Distinguished Lecturer of SCS, Professor of Computer Science, Monmouth University, NJ, USA, and General Chair of IEEE AICCSA 2007.


Welcome from the President of Philadelphia University

HE Professor Dr. Marwan Kamal, President of Philadelphia University, Former Minister of Agriculture, Former President of the Arab Universities Association, and Former President of Yarmouk University, Jordan.


Patron Distinguished Keynote Speech

"Higher Education and Science and Technology in the Arab Region and Third World"


His Excellency Professor Dr. Adnan Badran, Former Prime Minster of Jordan, and Former Deputy Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).


Bio of His Excellency Professor Dr. Senator Adnan Badran

Dr. Adnan Badran is a Senator in the Jordanian Upper House and an internationally well known Jordanian scientist, academic and politician. He is the former Prime Minister of Jordan, former Deputy Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (1993-1998), and Assistant Director General for Science, UNESCO, Paris, France (1990-1993).


Prof. Badran served in previous governments as Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Education. He also served as the Founding President of Yarmouk University (1976-1986), Irbid, Jordan, and the Founder of Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST), and Past President of Philadelphia University (1998-2006), and former Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Jordan (1971-1976).


Dr. Badran obtained his BS degree from Oklahoma State University, and his MS and PhD degrees from Michigan State University. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Sung Kyuakwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.


He serves as the Secretary General and Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). He is a member of a number of academic institutions including the Institute of Biological Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), the Arab Thought Forum (1978-present) and the World Affairs Council (1980-present). Dr. Adnan Badran is the elected Treasurer and Council Member of the Islamic Academy of Sciences and an elected Fellow of the Islamic Academy of Sciences (1989).


Dr. Badran has earned the Jordanian Al-Nahda and Al-Yarmouk Medals, the Istiklal (Independence) Medal of Jordan (1995), and the Alfonso X Medal of Spain. He is the author/editor of more than 18 books and 90 research papers in the field of Biology, Economic Development, Education and International Co-operation.

 

10:30 – 11:30 

Keynote Speech: Secure Information Sharing and Dissemination in the Context of Public Security,

Professor Nabil R. Adam, Rutgers University, NJ, USA.

 

11:30 – 13:00 

Session 1A, Room Almass 

T1-Software Engineering I 

Session Chair: Haidar Safa
American University of Beirut, Lebanon

  • 324Towards Maintainable Architecture for Process Control Applications 

I. A.M. El-Maddah - Ain Shams University, Egypt; W. Abdelmoez, H.H. Ammar - West Virginia University, USA 

  • 365A Meta-analysis Approach to Refactoring and XP 

Steve Counsell, Robert M. Hierons, George Loizou - University of London, UK 

  • 412A Formal Approach for Functional and Structural Test Case Generation in Multi-Agent Systems 

Yacine Kissoum - Skikda University, Algeria; Zaidi Sahnoun - Mentouri University, Algeria 

  • 434Component based development of non-visual applications using braille-speech widgets 

Amina Bouraoui - UTIC-ESSTT, Tunisia 

  • 271A Component Model for Network Processor Based System  

Hong Xiao Di Wu - Guangdong University of Technology, China 

 

Session 1B, Room Aladdin 

T2-Networks and Telecomunications I 

Session Co-Chairs: Hesham El-Sayed,
United Arab Emirates Univ., UAE,
and
Ismail Ababneh,
Al al-Bayt University, Jordan

  • 264QoS Routing of VoIP using a Modified Widest-Shortest Routing Algorithm 

Ala F. Khalifeh - University of California-Irvine,  USA; Ali H. El-Mousa - University of Jordan, Jordan

  • 459Doppler Effect on Location-Based Tracking in Mobile Sensor Networks 

Mohamed Hamdi, Ramzi Bellazreg - University of 7th of November at Carthage, Tunisia 

  • 463A Novel Scheme for Traffic Monitoring in Optical Bursts Switched Networks 

Amor Lazzez, Noureddine Boudriga - University of November 7th at Carthage, Tunisia; Mohammad S. Obaidat - Monmouth University, NJ, USA 

  • 418RC-MAC: Reduced Collision MAC for Bandwidth Optimization in Wireless Local Area Networks 

Mahmoud Taifour, Farid Naït-Abdesselam, David Simplot-Ryl - University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France 

  • 432Event Boundary Detection Using Autonomous Agents in a Sensor Network 

Adil Jaffer, Muhammad Jaseemuddin, Mandana Jafarian - Ryerson University, Canada; Hesham El-Sayed - UAE Univesity, UAE 

 

Session 1C, Room Aqiq 

T3-Parallel / Distributed Computing I 

Session Chair: Imad Abuelrub
Zarqa Private University, Jordan

  • 394Encoding Algorithms for Logic Synthesis 

Valery Sklyarov, Iouliia Skliarova - University of Aveiro, Portugal 

  • 304Multiple Sequence Alignment by Immune Artificial System 

Abdesslem Layeb, Abdel Hakim Deneche - University Mentouri of Constantine, Algeria 

  • 466Population Sizing Scheme for Genetic Algorithm 

Rose Al Qasim, Taisir Eldos - Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan 

  • 243A Novel Algorithm for Adaptive and Neutral Evolutionary Patterns Associated with HIV Drug Resistance 

A. Al Mazari, A.Y. Zomaya, M. Charleston, R. J. Garsia - University of Sydney, Australia 

  • 433Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Modeling Tools for Bacterial Growth 

Emad A. El-Sebakhy, I.Raharja, S.Adem, Y. Khaeruzzaman - King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia 

 

Session 1D, Room Kahrman 

T5-Hardware/Architecture/Real-Time Systems I 

Session Chair: Syed Misbah Uddin
The University of Hail, Saudi Arabia

  • 349Mapping and Performance Analysis of Lookup Table Implementations on Reconfigurable Platform 

Sohaib Majzoub, Hassan Diab - American University of Beirut, Lebanon 

  • 229Simulation of a Secure CPU with SecureTag Technique to Defend Embedded Systems Against Buffer Overflow Attacks 

Michael Georg Grasser, Johannes Priebsch, Georg Hofer, Thomas Hodanek - Graz University of Technology, Austria 

  • 404Improving Inter-processor Data Transfer Rates over Industrial Networks 

Syed Misbahuddin - University of Hail, Saudi Arabia; Nizar Al-Holou - The University of Detroit Mercy, USA 

  • 307Automated Software Power Optimization for Smart Card Systems with Focus on Peak Reduction 

M.Grumer, M.Wendt, C.Steger, R.Weiss - Graz University of Technology, Austria; U. Neffe, A. Mühlberger - NXP Semiconductors 

  • 285System Level Voltage Scheduling Technique Using UML-RT Model 

M.H. Neishaburi, Masoud Daneshtalab, Majid Nabi, Simak Mohammadi - University of Tehran, Iran 

 

 

14:30 – 16:00 

Session 2A, Room Almass 

T1-Software Engineering II 

Session Chair: Mohammad Ababneh
Al-Balqa' Applied University, Jordan

  • 201Intelligent Agents and Apache Cocoon for a CV Generation System 

Evelio J. González, Alberto Hamilton, Lorenzo Moreno, Juan A. Méndez, G.N. Marichal, José Sigut, Marta Sigut, J. Felipe - Universidad de La Laguna, Spain  

  • 230An Approach for Specification-based Test Case Generation for Web Services 

Samer Hanna, Malcolm Munro - Durham University, UK 

  • 473Development of a Web Based Database-Centric Workflow Management System Using Rapid Prototyping Approach 

Zahra J. Muhsin - Sunderland University, UK; Ali H. El-Mousa - University of Jordan, Jordan; Ian Potts - Sunderland University, UK 

  • 240Construct Metadata Model based on Coupling Information to Increase the Testability of Component-based Software 

Ma Liangli, Wang Houxiang, Li Yongjie - Naval University of Engineering, China 

 

Session 2B, Room Aladdin 

T2-Networks and Telecomunications II 

Session Chair: Mohammad Sharawi
Philadelphia University, Jordan

  • 286Performance Analysis of Reflection Paths for Millimeter Wavelength Systems 

Z. Muhi-Eldeen, M.O. Al-Nuaimi, J. Richter - University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK; L.P. Ivrissimtzis - University of Ioannina, Greece 

  • 295An Adaptive Polling Scheme to Improve Voice Transmission over Wireless LANs 

Ashraf D. Milhim, Yaw-Chung Chen - National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan 

  • 275A Multi-Agent Flexible Architecture for Autonomic Services and Network Management 

Yazeed Al-Obasiat, Robin Braun - University of Technology, Australia 

  • 435Implementation of the Sensor-MAC Protocol for the JiST/SWANS Simulator 

Veerendra Tippanagoudar, Imad Mahgoub, Ahmed Badi - Florida Atlantic University, USA 

 

Session 2C, Room Aqiq 

T3-Parallel / Distributed Computing II 

Session Chair: Ali Al-Dahoud
Al-Zaytoonah University, Jordan

  • 422The Maximum Common Subgraph Problem: Faster Solutions via Vertex Cover 

Faisal N. Abu-Khzam - Lebanese American University, Lebanon; Nagiza F. Samatova - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA; Mohamad A. Rizk - Lebanese American University, Lebanon; Michael A. Langston - University of Tennessee, USA 

  • 270Knowledge Versus Information Contents 

Fouad B. Chedid - Notre Dame University, Lebanon 

  • 252MA-GMA: A Mobile Agent-based Grid Monitor Architecture 

Guoqing Dong, Weiqin Tong - Shanghai University, Shanghai, China  

  • 281Terminal Mobility Services in the Middleware Environment 

Syed Zubair Ahmad, Mohammad Abdul Qadir - Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Pakistan 

 

Session 2D, Room Kahrman 

T5-Hardware/Architecture/Real-Time Systems II 

Session Chair: Majid Al-Taee
University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

  • 351Towards an Extension of Real-Time Java Supporting Several Multimedia Applications 

M.Teresa Higuera -Toledano, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 

  • 411An Exact Resource Constrained-Scheduler using Graph Coloring technique 

Hadda Cherroun - A.T. University, Algeria; Paul Feautrier -  ENS-Lyon, France

  • 395 Software/Configware Implementation of Combinatorial Algorithms 

Iouliia Skliarova, Valery Sklyarov - University of Aveiro, Portugal 

  • 375Speech Unit Selection Based on Matching Pursuit 

M.Hosseinpour, M.N. Ranjbar, M.Mousavinejad - Iran Telecommunication Research Center, Iran 

 

 

16:30 – 18:00 

Session 3A, Room Almass 

T1-Software Engineering III 

Session Chair: Munib Qutaishat
Hashemite University, Jordan

  • 186Single Machine Total Weighted Tardiness Problem with Genetic Algorithms 

António Ferrolho -  Polytechnic Institute of Viseu; Manuel Crisóstomo - University of Coimbra, Portugal

  • 321Using Maintainability Based Risk Assessment and Severity Analysis in Prioritizing Corrective Maintenance Tasks 

W. Abdelmoez, K. Goseva-Popstojanova, H.H. Ammar - West Virginia University, USA 

  • 206Operational Semantics for Single-Action Statements of C/ATLAS 

Guo Degui, Liu Lei, Zhang Jing - Jilin University, China 

  • 260An Eclipse Plug-in: Dependency Browser 

Dapeng Liu - Wayne State University, USA; Shaochun Xu - Laurentian University, Canada; Zhongyuan Liu -  Lanzhou University of Technology, China

  • 241A Reference Model of Grouped-Metadata Object and a Change Model based on it Appling for Component-based Software Integration Testing 

Ma Liangli, Wang Houxiang, Li Yongjie - Naval University of Engineering, China 

 

Session 3B, Room Aladdin 

T2-Networks and Telecomunications III 

Session Chair: Mikhled Al-Faouri
Philadelphia University, Jordan

  • 352A QoS-oriented Protocol for Burst Admission Control in OBS Networks 

Amor Lazzez, Noureddine Boudriga - University of November 7th, Tunisia; Mohammad S. Obaidat, Sihem Guemara El Fatmi - Monmouth University, NJ, USA 

  • 334Packet Reservation Multiple Access (PRMA) with Random Contention 

Ahed Al-Shanyour, Ashraf Mahmoud, Tarek Sheltami, Salman A. AlQahtani - King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia 

  • 426A QoS Scheduler Packets for Wireless Sensor Networks 

Nesrine Ouferhat, Abdelhamid Mellouk - University of Paris XII, France 

  • 102SERP: Scalable Efficient Reservation Protocol for the Future Internet 

M. Mtshali - Telkom SA Ltd, South Africa; GE Ojong, MO Adigun - University of Zululand, South Africa 

 

Session 3C, Room Aqiq 

T3-Parallel / Distributed Computing III 

Session Chair: Ali H. El-Mousa
University of Jordan, Jordan

  • 254High Level Modelling and Design For a Microthreaded Scheduler to Support Microgrids 

Nabil Hasasneh - Hebron University, Palestine; Ian Bell - University of Hull, UK; Chris Jesshope - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

  • 431Master/Slave Speculative Parallelization Architecture for Computer Clusters 

Joan Puiggali, Teo Jové, Juan Segovia, Josep Lluís Marzo - University of Girona, Spain 

  • 387 Simulation-Based Performance Evaluation of Deterministic Routing in Necklace Hypercubes 

S. Meraji, A. Nayebi - IPM School of Computer Science, Iran; H. Sarbazi-Azad - Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 

 

Session 3D, Room Kahrman 

T5-Hardware/Architecture/Real-Time Systems III 

Session Chair: Iouliia Skliarova
University of Aveiro, Portugal

  • 178Floating-Point Matrix Product on FPGA 

Faycal Bensaali - University of Hertfordshire, UK; Abbes Amira - Brunel University, UK; Reza Sotudeh - University of Hertfordshire, UK 

  • 236A Methodology for the Formal Verification of RISC Microprocessors A Functional Approach 

S. Merniz, M. Benmohammed - Constantine University, Algeria 

  • 372Improving Robustness of Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) Services Related to Soft-Errors 

M.H Neishaburi, Mohammad Reza Kakoee, Masoud Daneshtalab, Saeed Safari - University of Tehran, Iran. 

  • 189A New Design for 7:2 Compressors 

Mahnoush Rouholamini - Science and Research Center of Hesarak, Iran; Omid Kavehie - Shahid Beheshti University, Iran; Amir-Pasha Mirbaha - University of Paris I, France; Somaye Jafarali Jasbi - Science and Research Center of Hesarak, Iran; Keivan Navi - Shahid Beheshti University, Iran 

  • 210Reversible Barrel Shifters 

Saeid Gorgin, Amir Kaivani - Shahid Beheshti University, Iran 

 

 

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 

09:00 – 10:30 

Keynote Speech: Routing Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks

Professor Abbas Jamalipour, Fellow IEEE, Univeirtsy of Sydney, Australia

 

11:00 – 13:00 

Session 4A, Room Almass 

T4-Database and Data Mining I 

Session Co-Chairs: Esma Aimeur,
University of Montreal, Canada,
and
Adnan El-Nasan,
Yarmouk University, Jordan

  • 258Data Mining - Redefining the Boundaries 

Malik Shahzad Kaleem Awan, Mian Muhammad Awais - Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan 

  • 200On Multi-Relational Data Mining for Foundation of Data Mining 

Miao Liu, Hai-Feng Guo, Zhengxin Chen - University of Nebraska , USA 

  • 474Digital Library Framework for Arabic Manuscripts 

Wasfi G. Al-Khatib, S.A. Shahab, Sabri A. Mahmoud - King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia 

  • 376Weighted Naive Bayesian Classifier 

Hamad Alhammady - Etisalat University College, UAE 

  • 228Caching Intermediate Results for Multiple-Query Optimization 

Ali-Asghar Safaeei, Mehran Kamali, Mostafa S. Haghjoo, Kamyar Izadi - Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran 

 

Session 4B, Room Aladdin 

T2-Networks and Telecomunications IV 

Session Chair: Nizar Al-Holou
University of Detroit Mercy, USA

  • 305Resource Sharing Systems: A Combinatorial Application to Pervasive Computing 

Amgad Madkour, Sherif G. Aly - The American University In Cairo, Egypt 

  • 339Solving P2P Traffic Identification Problems Via Optimized Support Vector Machines 

Yue-xiang Yang, Rui Wang, Yang Liu, Shang-zhen Li, Xiao-yong Zhou - National University of Defense Technology, China 

  • 462WSNodeRater - An Optimized Reputation System Framework for Security Aware Energy Efficient Geographic Routing in WSNs 

Ismat K. Maarouf, A. R. Naseer - King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia 

  • 370Session awareness issues for next generation cluster based network load balancing frameworks 

Narjess Ayari, Denis Barbaron - France Telecom R&D, France; Laurent Lefèvre, Pascale Primet - INRIA / LIP, France 

 

Session 4C, Room Aqiq 

T3-Parallel / Distributed Computing IV 

Session Chair: Walter Dosch
University of Lubeck, Denmark

  • 267A Novel Algorithm to Extract Tri-Literal Arabic Roots 

Mohanned Momani, Jamil Faraj - Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences (AABFS), Jordan 

  • 273New Election Algorithm based on Assistant in Distributed Systems 

Mahdi Zargarnataj - Shahid Beheshti University, Iran 

  • 388An Intelligent Replication Framework for Data Grids 

Ali Elghirani, Albert Y. Zomaya, Riky Subrata - University of Sydney, Australia 

  • 196The Performance Evaluation of a Local Transaction Service in support of Juxtaposed CORBA Components 

Mohammad Ghaem Tajgardoon - Ministry of Science, Researches and Technology, Iran; Mohammad Hassan Tajgardoon - Khaje Nasir Toosi University of Technology, Iran 

  • 472Remote Monitoring of Vehicle Diagnostics and Location Using a Smart Box with Global Positioning System and General Packet Radio Service 

Majid A. Al-Taee, Omar B. Khader, Nabeel A. Al-Saber - University of Jordan, Jordan 

 

Session 4D, Room Kahrman 

T9-DSP/Image Processing/Pattern Recognition/Multimedia I 

Session Chair: Mohammed Almualla
Etisalat University College, UAE

  • 476Security Enhancement for Watermarking Technique Using Content based Image Segmentation 

M.A. Suhail - University of Bradford, UK; M.S. Obaidat - Monmouth University, USA 

  • 446A DCT-Based Watermarking Technique for Image Authentication 

Mohamed Al Baloshi, Mohammed E. Al-Mualla - Etisalat University College, UAE 

  • 175 Robustness-Conserved Partially Host-Adaptive Watermarking Using a Baseband-Spread Spectrum Coding Technique 

Ali E. Hameed, Majid A. Alwan - University of Basrah, Iraq 

  • 326Occlusion Handling for Object Tracking in Crowded Video Scenes Based on the Undecimated Wavelet Features 

M.Khansari, H.R. Rabiee, M.Asadi - Sharif University of Technology, Iran; M.Ghanbari - University of Essex, England, UK 

  • 268A Novel Approach for fingerprint Singular Points Detection Using 2D-Wavelet 

Alireza Ahmadyfard - Shahrood University of Technology, Iran; Masoud S. Nosrati - Amirkabir University of Technology,  Iran

 

 

14:30 – 16:00 

Session 5A, Room Almass 

T4-Database and Data Mining II 

Session Chair: Nedal Al-Hanbali
Al-Balqa' Applied University, Jordan

  • 272FGC: An Efficient Constraint Based Frequent Set Miner 

Russel Pears, Sangeetha Kutty - Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand 

  • 350Mining Streaming Emerging Patterns from Streaming Data 

Hamad Alhammady - Etisalat University College , UAE 

  • 377Use of Rough Sets for the Identification and Analysis of Dependencies and Relationships in Biocontrol of Weeds 

Mohamed Elhadi - Sultan Qaboos University, Oman; Wojciech Ziarko - University of Regina, Canada 

  • 209Database Replication: Availability and Consistency Assurance via Stream Processing 

Mortezza Abbaszadeh Meinagh -  Islamic Azad University, Iran; Ayaz Isazadeh -  Tabriz University, Iran; Bager Zarei, Mehdi Zarei - Azad University, Iran

 

Session 5B, Room Aladdin 

T2-Networks and Telecomunications V 

Session Chair: Abbas Jamalipour
University of Sydney, Australia

  • 378A Heuristic Genetic Algorithm for the Single Source Shortest Path Problem 

Basela S. Hasan - Arab Open University, Jordan; Mohammad A. Khamees - Al-Isra'a Private University, Jordan; Ashraf S. Mahmoud - King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia 

  • 468A New Class of Services for Mobile Devices using Bluetooth Connectivity 

Zahy Abou-Atme, Nabeel Sulieman, Leila El-Aawar, Zaher Dawy - American University of Beirut, Lebanon 

  • 438Congestion Avoidance Mechanism for Optical Label Switched Networks: A Dynamic QoS-based Approach 

Yassine Khlifi, Noureddine Boudriga - University of November 7th at Carthage, Tunisia; Mohammad S. Obaidat - Monmouth University, NJ, USA 

  • 203On Secure Consensus Information Fusion over Sensor Networks 

Mahdi Kefayati, Mohammad S. Talebi, Hamid R. Rabiee, Babak H. Khalaj - Sharif University of Technology, Iran 

 

Session 5C, Room Aqiq 

SS1-Software and Applications I 

Session Chair: Narayan C. Debnath
Winona State University, USA

  • ss06Formal Design of a Parameterized Synchronization Component for Asynchronous Communication Streams 

Walter Dosch - University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany 

  • ss04HAODV: a New Routing Protocol to Support Interoperability in Heterogeneous MANET 

Haidar Safa, Hassan Artail, Marcel Karam, Hala Ollaic, Rasha Abdallah - American University of Beirut, Lebanon 

  • ss01Defining OCL constraints for the Proxy Design Pattern Profile 

N.C. Debnath - Winona State University, USA; A.Garis, D.Riesco, G.Montejano - Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina 

 

Session 5D, Room Kahrman 

T9-DSP/Image Processing/Pattern Recognition/Multimedia II 

Session Chair: Muhammad Sarfraz
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia

  • 398Content-based Image Retrieval using Multiple Shape Descriptors 

M.Sarfraz, A.Ridha - King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia 

  • 427An effective model of stressing in an Arabic Text To Speech System 

Zouhir Zemirli, Salima Khabet, M'hamed Mosteghanem - National Computer Science Institute, Algeria 

  • 400Off-Line Signature Verification of Bank Cheque Having Different Background Colors 

Javed Ahmed Mahar - Shah Abdul Latif University, Pakistan; Mohammad Khalid Khan - PAF-Karachi Institute of Economic & Technology, Pakistan; Mumtaz Hussain Mahar - Shah Abdul Latif University, Pakistan 

  • 165A Hierarchical Face Identification System Based on Facial Components 

Mehrtash T. Harandi, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak N. Araabi - University of Tehran, Iran 

 

 

16:30 – 18:00 

Session 6A, Room Almass 

T10-Soft Computing 

Session Co-Chairs: Ahmed Dalal'ah,
Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan,
and
El-Sayed El-Alfy,
King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia

  • 176Neural Network Examination of Seismic Design Values in the Building Code of Taiwan 

Tienfuan Kerh - National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan; J.S. Lai - National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan; D.Gunaratnam, R.Saunders - University of Sydney, Australia 

  • 303A Study of ECG Characteristics by Using Wavelet and Neural Networks 

Man Sun Kim, HyungJeong Yang - Chonnam National University, Korea 

  • 346Diesel Engine Indicated Torque Estimation Based on Artificial Neural Networks 

Yahya H. Zweirim - Mu'tah University, Jordan; Lakmal D. Seneviratne - King's College London, UK 

 

Session 6B, Room Aladdin 

T2-Networks and Telecomunications VI 

Session Chair: Yaw-Chung Chen
National Chiao Tung University Hsinchu , Taiwan

  • 277Wireless Sensor Networks: Architectures, Protocols, Applications, and A New Management System Directions 

Yazeed Al-Obasiat, Robin Braun - University of Technology, Australia; Omar Al-Hujran - University of Wollongong 

  • 420New Scheduling Architecture for IEEE 802.16 Wireless Metropolitan Area Network 

Haidar Safa, Hassan Artail, Marcel Karam, Rawan Soudah, Samar Khayat - American University of Beirut, Lebanon 

  • 442Integration of Technologies for Smart Home Application 

Saeed O. Al Mehairi, Hassan Barada, Mahmoud Al Qutayri - Etisalat University College, Sharjah, UAE 

  • 445Using Modified Conditional Second-Order Statistics in Blind Source Separation in Noisy Environment 

M.R. Zoghi, M.H. Kahaei - Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran 

 

Session 6C, Room Aqiq 

SS1-Software and Applications II 

Session Chair: Narayan C. Debnath
Winona State University, USA

  • ss08Benchmarking XML-Schema Matching Algorithms for Improving Automated Tuning 

Mohamed Boukhebouze - National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon, France; Rami Rifaieh - San Diego Supercomputer Center-University of California San Diego, USA; Nabila Benharkat, Youssef Amghar - National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon, France 

  • ss05An Abstract Workflow-Based Framework for Testing Composed Web Services 

Marcel Karam, Haidar Safa, Hassan Artail - American University of Beirut, Lebanon 

  • ss02E-government Services Offerings Evaluation Using Continuous Logic 

Narayan Debnath - Winona State University; Aristides Dasso, Ana Funes, Roberto Uzal - Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina; José Paganini - Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Argentina 

  • p02Determinants of E-Government Adoption and Diffusion in Jordan 

Omar Alhujran, Akemi Takeoka Chatfield - University of Wollongong, Australia 

 

Session 6D, Room Kahrman 

T9-DSP/Image Processing/Pattern Recognition/Multimedia III 

Session Chair: Ahmad Sharieh
University of Jordan, Jordan

  • 408Incorporating Knowledge into Unsupervised Model-Based Clustering for Satellite Images 

Bilal Al Momani, Sally McClean, Philip Morrow - University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK 

  • 340License Processing: Recognizing Characters in License Plates 

Hasan R. Obeid, Rached N. Zantout - Hariri Canadian University, Lebanon 

  • 464Segmentation of Printed Farsi/Arabic Words 

A. Broumandnia - Islamic Azad University, Iran; J. Shanbehzadeh - Tarbiat Moalem University, Iran; M. Nouran - Tehran University, Iran 

  • 219A novel algorithm to fast mode decision with consideration about video texture in H.264 

Liquan Shen, Zhi Liu, Zhaoyang Zhang, Guozhong Wang - Ministry of Education, China 

 

 

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 

09:00 – 10:30 

Keynote Speech: Discrete-Event Computer Simulation as a Paradigm of Scientific Investigations,

Professor Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

11:00 – 13:00 

Session 7A, Room Almass 

T8-Performance Evaluation I 

Session Chair: Ayman Issa
Philadelphia University, Jordan

  • 204Loss rates bounds in IP buffers by Markov chains aggregations 

Hind Castel - GET/INT/SAMOVAR, France; Lynda Mokdad - Univ. Paris Dauphine, France; Nihal Pekergin - Université Paris 1, France 

  • 232Performance Evaluation and Analytical Modeling of a Novel Dynamic Call Admission Control Scheme for 3G and Beyond Cellular Wireless Networks 

Salman A. AlQahtani, Ashraf S. Mahmoud, Ahed M. Al-Shanyour - King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia 

  • 323Performance Evaluation of an Ultra-Fast Pipeline Scheduler for Next-Generation Networks 

M.T. Anan, G. M. Chaudhry - University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA; J. Qaddour - Illinois State University, USA 

  • 428A QoS Adaptive Multi-path Reinforcement Learning Routing Algorithm for MANET 

Abdelhamid Mellouk, Saïda Ziane - University of Paris XII-Val de Marne, France 

 

Session 7B, Room Aladdin 

T12-Algorithms and Bioinformatics, and e‑Learning 

Session Chair: Issa Shehabat
Philadelphia University, Jordan

  • 257WordNet based Cross-Language Text Categorization 

Bentaallah Mohamed Amine, Malki Mimoun - EEDIS Laboratory, Algeria 

  • 299An Educational Asynchronous Learning Environment 

Amar Balla - National Institute of Computer Science, Algeria 

  • 316Exploiting Model of Personality and Emotion of Learning Companion Agent 

Taihua Li, Peng Yue, Yuhui Qiu - Southwest University, China; Guoxiang Zhong - Chongqing Education College, China 

  • 430HELP: A Recommender System to Locate Expertise in Organizational Memories 

Esma Aïmeur, Flavien Serge Mani Onana, Anita Saleman - University of Montreal, Canada 

  • 478Developing Quality Games-based e-Learning Systems 

Katerina Papanikolaou, Stephanos Mavromoustakos - Cyprus College, Cyprus 

 

Session 7C, Room Aqiq 

T6-Geographical Information Systems/
Global Navigation/ Satellite Systems (GIS/GNSS)

Session Chair: Balqies Sadoun, and Omar Al-Bayari
Al-Balqa' Applied University, Jordan

  • 359Three Dimensional (3D) GIS Modeling for High Buildings and Applications 

Balqies Sadoun, Nidal Al-Hanbali - Al-Balqa' Applied University, Jordan 

  • 469LBS and GIS Technology Combination and Applications 

Balqies Sadoun, Omar Al-Bayari - Al-Balqa' Applied University, Jordan 

  • 3583D GIS Modeling of BAU: Planning Prospective and Implementation Aspects 

Nidal Al-Hanbali, Balqies Sadoun - Al-Balqa' Applied University, Jordan 

  • 344Software Defined Radios: A Software GPS Receiver Example 

Mohammad S. Sharawi - Philadelphia University, Jordan; Oleksiy V. Korniyenko - Oakland University, USA 

 

Session 7D, Room Kahrman 

T9-DSP/Image Processing/Pattern Recognition/Multimedia IV 

Session Chair: Faruq Al-Omari
Yarmouk University, Jordan

  • 382A Superior Low Complexity Rate Control Algorithm 

Alireza Aminlou, Maryam Homayouni, M.H Neishaburi, Siamak Mohammadi - University of Tehran, Iran 

  • 342Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis Based on Analysis of Subbands of 2-d Wavelet Transform Applied on MR-images 

Meysan Torabi - Sharif University of Technology, Iran; Hassan Moradzadeh - Iran Science & Technology University, Iran; Reza Vaziri, Reza Dehestani Ardekani, Emad Fatemizadeh - Sharif University of Technology, Iran 

  • 335Video nature considerations for multi-frame selection algorithm in H.264 

Liquan Shen, Zhi Liu, Zhaoyang Zhang, Guozhong Wang - Ministry of Education, China 

  • 150MRI Fuzzy Segmentation of Brain Tissue Using IFCM Algorithm with Genetic Algorithm Optimization 

Youness Aliyari Ghassabeh, Nosratallah Forghani, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Mohammad Teshnehlab - Toosi University of Technology, Iran 

 

 

14:30 – 16:00 

Session 8A, Room Almass 

T8-Performance Evaluation II 

Session Chair: Hany H. Ammar
West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA

  • 234Mahak: A Test Collection for Evaluation of Farsi Information Retrieval Systems 

Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, Hassan Abolhassani, Mahmood Neshati, Ehsan Behrangi, Asreen Rostami, Mojtaba Mohammadi Nasiri - Sharif University of Technology, Iran 

  • 309A Controlled Experiment to Investigate the Effect of 'Process Patterns' on the Quality of Requirement Analysis 

Ahmad Estabraghy, Darren Dalcher - Middlesex University, UK 

  • 399The Effect of Routing-Update Time on Network's Performability 

M.Shaad Zolpirani, M.-M. Bidmeshki, S. G. Miremadi - Sharif University of Technology, Iran 

  • p04Bayesian Networks for Modelling HIV Drug Resistance Dynamics 

A. Al Mazari, A.Y. Zomaya, M. Charleston, R. J. Garsia - University of Sydney, Australia 

 

Session 8B, Room Aladdin 

T11-Security and Information Assurance I 

Session Chair: Noureddine Boudriga
University of Carthage, Tunisia

  • 480Sensor Activity Scheduling for Efficient WSN-based Tracking 

Nejla Essaddi, Mohamed Hamdi, Noureddine Boudriga - Engineering School of Communications (Sup’Com), Tunisia 

  • 318On Optimal firewall Rule Ordering 

El-Sayed M. El-Alfy, Shokri Z. Selim - King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia 

  • 293Seamless Secure Development of Systems: From Modeling to Enforcement of Access Control Policies 

Saeed Parsa, Morteza Damanafshan - Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran 

  • 293Trust-Based User-Role Assignment in Role-Based Access Control 

Hassan Takabi, Morteza Amini, Rasool Jalili - Sharif University of Technology, Iran 

 

Session 8C, Room Aqiq 

T7-Modelling and Simulation I 

Session Chair: Sami Habib
Kuwait University, Kuwait

  • 308Modeling the Communication Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks as a Vertex Cover 

Maytham Safar, Mohammad Taha, Sami Habib - Kuwait University, Kuwait 

  • 385AR Model Identification Using Higher Order Statistics 

Adnan M. Al-Smadi - University, Al-Mafraq, Jordan 

  • 347SiMBCN: An Interactive Simulation Tool for Multihop Based Cellular Networks 

Sami Arayssi,  Marc Akl, Sami Abou Saab, Zaher Dawy - American University of Beirut, Lebanon

  • 444Removing the GSC Noise Reduction deficiencies in Reverberant Environments by Proposing Joint AEC-GSC algorithm 

Pejman Mowlaee, Mahdi Orooji, Mohammad Hossein Kahaei - Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran 

 

Session 8D, Room Kahrman 

T9-DSP/Image Processing/Pattern Recognition/Multimedia V 

Session Chair: Rached Zantout
Hariri Candian University, Lebanon

  • 465Handwritten Farsi/Arabic Word Recognition 

A. Broumandnia - Islamic Azad University, Iran; J. Shanbehzadeh -Tarbiat Moalem University, Iran; M. Nourani - Tehran University, Iran 

  • 371Artificial Visual Cortical Responding Model in Image Semantic Processing 

Zhiping Xu, Shiyong Zhang, Yiping Zhong - Fudan University, China 

 

 

16:30 – 18:00 

Session 9A, Room Almass 

T4-Database and Data Mining III 

Session Chair: Bassam Saleh
Al-Balqa' Applied University, Jordan

  • 220 Quine-McCluskey Classification 

Javad Safaei, Hamid Beigy - Sharif University of Technology, Iran 

  • 379XPLC: A Novel Protocol for Concurrency Control in XML Databases 

Kamyar Izadi, Fatemeh Asadi, Mostfa S. Haghjoo - Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran 

  • 471Personalized Web Page Ranking Using Trust and Similarity 

Lara Srour, Ayman Kayssi, Ali Chehab - American University of Beirut, Lebanon 

 

Session 9B, Room Aladdin 

T11-Security and Information Assurance II 

Session Chair: Zaher Dawy
American University of Beirut, Lebanon

  • 457Structuring a Multi-violation Detectors Database for an Efficient Intrusion Detection 

Amel Meddeb-Makhlouf, Mohamed Hamdi, Noureddine Boudriga - Engineering School of Communications (SupCom), Tunisia 

  • 470SmartSSL: Efficient Policy-Based Web Security 

Camille Gaspard, Batoul Haidar, Ayman Kayssi, Ali Chehab - American University of Beirut, Lebanon 

  • 310How to Counter Control Flow Tampering Attacks 

Mohsen Sharifi, Mohammad Zoroufi, Alireza Saberi - Iran University of Science & Technology, Iran 

 

Session 9C, Room Aqiq 

T7-Modelling and Simulation II 

Session Chair: Abdel-Fatah Tamimi
Al-Zaytoona University, Jordan

  • 226Artificial Neural Networks vs Linear Regression in a Fluid Mechanics and Chemical Modelling Problem: Elimination of Hydrogen Sulphide in a lab-scale Biofilter 

G. Ibarra-Berastegi, A. Elias, R. Arias, A. Barona - University of the Basque Country, Spain 

  • 403Robust Control Design for a Wind Turbine-Induction Generator Unit 

Alireza Khosravi, Aliakbar Jalali - Iran University of Science &Technology, Iran; Hamed Mojallali - Guilan University, Iran 

  • 199Modeling and Evaluation of Call Centers with GSPN Models 

Maryam Fanaeepour, Leila Naghavian, Mohammad Abdollahi Azgomi - Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran 

 

Session 9D, Room Kahrman 

SS2-Special Session on Processor Allocation and Scheduling in High‑Performance Computing Systems: Design and Performance

Session Chair: Ibrahiem El Emary
Amman University, Jordan

  • ss11A Performance Comparison of Contiguous Allocation Placement Schemes for 2D Mesh-connected Multicomputers 

Ismail M. Ababneh - Al al-Bayt University, Jordan 

  • ss12An Efficient Processor Allocation Strategy that Maintains a High Degree of Contiguity among Processors in 2D Mesh Connected Multicomputers 

S.Bani-Mohammad, M.Ould-Khaoua - Glasgow University, UK; I.Ababneh - Al al-Bayt University, Jordan; Lewis M. Mackenzie - Glasgow University, UK 

  • ss13Applications of Heterogeneous Computing in Hardware/Software Co-Scheduling 

Proshanta Saha, Tarek El-Ghazawi - The George Washington University, USA