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Ghazi I. Alkhatib is an assistant professor of software engineering at the College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Applied Science University (Amman, Jordan). In 1984, he obtained
his Doctor of Business Administration from Mississippi State University in information systems with
minors in computer science and accounting. Since then, he has been engaged in teaching, consulting,
training and research in the area of computer information systems in the US and gulf countries. In addition to his research interests in databases and systems analysis and design, he has published several
articles and presented many papers in regional and international conferences on software processes,
knowledge management, e-business, Web services and agent software, workflow and portal/grid computing integration with Web services.
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Mariam Abed Mostafa Abed is a Muslim Egyptian graduate of the German University in Cairo. She
was born in Cairo in 1990 and received her BSc in Business Informatics with Honors on July 2010. She
helped as a junior teaching assistant at the GUC during studying, and currently working as a graduate
part timer teaching assistant at the GUC.
Petr Aksenov obtained his MSc degree in Applied Mathematics from Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia, and MSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Joensuu (now the University
of Eastern Finland), Finland, in 2004. After his graduation, Petr spent some time working as a research
engineer at the LG Electronics’ Digital Appliance Research Laboratory located in Seoul, South Korea,
and then as a software test analyst at a software outsourcing company located in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
Currently, Petr is a doctoral candidate within the Human Computer Interaction group at the Expertise
centre for Digital Media (EDM), a research institute of Hasselt University in Belgium. His research
interest falls within the area of location-awareness in ubiquitous computing. In particular, he investigates
the modelling and presentation aspects of the multifaceted variability and limitations of location sensing
viewed from a frequently moving user’s perspective.
Hussein Al-Bahadili is an associate professor at Petra University, Jordan. He received his B.Sc
degree in Engineering from University of Baghdad in 1986. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in
Engineering from University of London in 1988 and 1991, respectively. His field of study was parallel
computers. He is a visiting researcher at the Wireless Networks and Communications Centre (WNCC)
at University of Brunel, UK. He has published many papers and book chapters in different fields of sci-
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ence and engineering in numerous leading scholarly and practitioner journals, and presented at leading
world-level scholarly conferences. His research interests include parallel and distributed computing,
wireless communications, computer networks, Web search engine, cryptography and network security,
data compression, image processing, and artificial intelligence and expert systems.
Waseem AL-Romimah is an instructor at The University of Science and Technology, Yemen. He
received His M.Sc in Computer Information Systems from the University of Jordan (Jordan) in 2010.
He received his BSc degree in Computer Information Systems from Zarqa private University (Jordan)
in 2005. His current research interests are in Natural language processing, information retrieval.
Saif Al-Saab received his BS degree in Engineering from Al-Mustansiriyah University (BaghdadIraq) in 1999. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Information System from the Arab
Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences (Amman-Jordan) in 2003 and 2010, respectively. He
carried out his PhD research on the development of a new compressed index-query Web search engine
model. He has published a number of papers in different journals and conferences. His research interests
include search engine technology, data compression, artificial intelligence, and expert systems.
Bassam Al-Shargabi is an assistance professor at Al-Isra University, Jordan. He received His PhD
and M.Sc in Computer Information Systems from the Arab Academy for Banking & Financial Sciences
(Jordan) in 2009 and 2004, respectively. He received his BSc degree in Computer Science from Applied
Science University (Jordan) in 2003. His current research interests are in Natural language processing,
information retrieval, and Service Oriented architecture.
Abdallah Al-Tahan Al-Nu’aimi is an assistant professor of information technology. He got his B.Sc.
and M.Sc. from Jordanian University of Science and Technology in Communications and Electronics
Engineering and his Ph.D. from Bradford University in Electronic Imaging and Media Communications.
He recently works in Isra University in Computer Multimedia Systems department. He has published
several papers and articles in international conferences and journals. His research interests include, but
not limited to, watermarking, steganography, cryptography, digital rights management, security, face
recognition, digital image enhancement, electronic imaging and data mining. He was a reviewer and a
TPC member of several international conferences.
Linda Anticoli received the Doctor degree in computer science from the University of Udine, Italy,
in 2010. She is currently afferent at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
and Management of the University of Udine, Italy, for the development of a routing protocol based on
open source code. Her main research interests are in the area of semantic web and cognitive psychology,
artificial intelligence (in particular knowledge representation, ontologies and conceptual graphs) and
design for experience. At present she is also interested in cultural/value-based web design and multimedia.
Stephen Barrett is currently a lecturer at Distributed Systems Group, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
His research centers on middleware support for adaptive computing. (with particular focus on model
driven paradigms) and on large scale applications research (particularly in the context of web search,
trust computation and peer and cloud computing).
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Khadhir Bekki received the engineer degree in Computer Science at University of Oran, Algeria in
1996. He received the Master degrees in Computer Science in 2007, respectively from the Abdelhamid
Ibn Badis University in Mostaganem, Algeria. He is currently an Assistant Professor of computer Science at Ibn Khaldoune University in Tiaret, Algeria, and he is a PhD student at the Science and Technology University USTO in Oran. His current research interests include Web services, Business process,
security and verification.
Hafida Belbachir received her PHD in Computer Science at University of Oran, Algeria in 1990.
Currently, she is a professor at the Science and Technology University USTO in Oran, where she heads
the Database System Group in the LSSD Laboratory. Her research interests include Advanced DataBases,
DataMining and Data Grid.
Jonathon A. Chambers studied for his PhD degree in signal processing at Peterhouse Cambridge
University, Cambridge, U.K., and the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (Imperial
College London), London, U.K. From 1991 to 1994, he was a Research Scientist with Schlumberger
Cambridge Research Centre, Cambridge, U.K. In 1994, he returned to Imperial College London, as a
Lecturer in signal processing and was promoted as a Reader (Associate Professor) in 1998. From 2001
to 2004, he was the Director of the Centre for Digital Signal Processing. From 2004 to 2007, he was a
Cardiff Professorial Research Fellow with the School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Wales, U.K.
In 2007, he joined the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University,
Loughborough, U.K., where he heads the Advanced Signal Processing Group and serves as an Associate
Dean within the School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering.
Gaojie Chen received his BEc degree and his BEng degree from Northwest University in China
(2006). He received his M.Sc degree (distinction) from Loughborough University while obtaining the
Best Project Award. He is a Ph.D student in the Advanced Signal Processing Group in Loughborough
University. He currently works in the area of multi-relay selection for cognitive relay networks.
Karin Coninx received a PhD in Computer Science in 1997 following a study into Human-Computer
Interaction in immersive virtual environments. She is full professor at Hasselt University (Belgium). As
group leader of the human-computer interaction group of the Expertise Centre for Digital Media at the
Hasselt University, she is responsible for guidance of (PhD) researchers and for various research projects
relating to (multimodal) interaction in virtual environments, rehabilitation robotics, mobile and contextsensitive systems, interactive work spaces, user-centered software engineering and the model-based
realization of user interfaces. She has coordinated several Flemish and international project consortia.
Karin Coninx is co-author of more than 250 international publications (about 80 journal publications
or book chapters), co-organizer of workshops and a member of several program committees. Besides
leading the HCI group in EDM, Karin Coninx takes management responsibility, e.g., as Vice-Dean of
the Faculty of Sciences in Hasselt University.
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Mohammad Ali H. Eljinini earned his PhD in Health Informatics from City University, London, UK
in 2006. Currently he is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems, Isra
University. His research interests include e-health, Web/Text Mining, Ontology, Knowledge Aquisition,
and the Semantic Web.
Hidekazu Fujioka received the BS degree in human and culture from Tokai University, Japan in
1989. He joined a network system engineering company in 1989. He established a corporation “Compass”
in 1997. He is now a president of Compass. He is a representative of Morinosato 4th Block Regional
Community in Atsugi city, Kanagawa prefecture. He is also a member of Atsugi City Self Governing
Conference, a special member of the Atsugi Young Men’s Association (the 36th President), and a president
of Parents Teacher Association of Morinosato elementary school. His current business area is digital
contents development, business consulting and Web design by information technologies.
Lu Ge received the B.Tech degree in Communication Engineering from Chongqing University of Post
and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China, in 2008, and received her M.Sc degree in Electronic and
Electrical Engineering from Loughborough University, U.K. in 2010. She is currently a Ph.D student in
the Advanced Signal Processing Group in Loughborough University. From 2009 to 2010, she researched
quasi-orthogonal space-time block coding in distributed MIMO system. Now she is researching the application of the golden code and multi-relay selection for wireless relay networks.
Yuichi Harada received the BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Applied Electronics at Tokyo Institute of
Technology (Tokyo Tech) in 1986, 1988, and 1991, respectively. He was the fellow researcher at the
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science from 1991 to 1993 and the guest researcher at Chalmers
University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden from 1992 to 1994, where he engaged in superconducting single electronics. Then, he joined NTT Basic Research Laboratories (NTT BRL) from 1994 until
now. He worked as the managing-director of NTT Europe BRL located in England, UK from 2004 to
2007. He is currently engaged in spintronics research projects. For the academic engagements, he takes
tasks as the adjunct professor at Tokyo Tech and Chuo University. He is a regular member of IEEE, APS,
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan, and the Japan Society of
Applied Physics.
Akira Hattori received the BS degree from Aichi University of Education, Japan in 1997. He also
received his MS and PhD degrees from Nagoya University, Japan in 2000 and 2005. His doctor thesis
was on development of distributed database of urban information. He is an associate professor of the
Department of Information Media at Kanagawa Institute of Technology. His specialty is socio informatics and study of information systems. His current researches are web and mobile applications and ICT
support environment for non-profit organizations. Especially, he is interested in web-based map system
to collect, manage and share local information on the web among local citizens.
Haruo Hayami is a professor in the Department of Information Media at Kanagawa Institute of
Technology. He researches and educates database and groupware. He has published journal or international conference papers of 100 or more, and 14 books. He received his BS and MS in applied physics
from Nagoya University, in 1970 and 1972, respectively. He received a Doctor’s degree in computer
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engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1993. He worked at NTT laboratories from 1972
to 1998 and moved to Kanagawa Institute of Technology from NTT at 1998. He received IPSJ 40th
Anniversary Paper Award in 2000, WfMC Marvin L. Manheim Award in 2002, WfMC Fellow Award
in 2004 and IPSJ Fellow Award in 2006.
Shigenori Ioroi received the BS degree in applied mathematics from Tokyo University of Science,
Japan in 1993. He joined PFU in 1993 until 1994. He received the MS and PhD degrees in Information
Science from Japan Advanced Institute of Technology in 1999. He joined Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan in 1999. He is now an associate professor of the Department of Information and Computer
Sciences. His current research interests software engineering. He also has interests on development of
new input method. He is a member of Information and Communication Engineers of Japan, Japan Society
for Software Science and Technology, and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Kris Luyten received both a MS in Knowledge Engineering and Computer Science from the transnational University Limburg, a joint university of Hasselt University (BE) and Maastricht University
(NL), in 2000. He has a PhD degree in computer science from Hasselt University, Belgium and is a
professor there since 2006. His main research interests are situated in Context-Aware User Interfaces,
User Interface Description Languages, Model-Based and User-Centered Interface Development, Multitouch Interaction, Mobile Guides, Ubiquitous Computing and Social and Collaborative Software. Kris
served as a co-chair forthe CHI 2008 Work-in-Progress track, full paper co-chair for EICS 2011 and was
program chair for TAMODIA 2006. He teaches courses on software engineering, mobile and pervasive
computing and information visualization.
Basel Magableh received his MS degree in computer science from New York Institute of Technology, NY, USA, in 2004. He is currently a PhD candidate at Distributed Systems Group, Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland. His research focuses in integrating Model Driven Architecture with a component-based
system to construct self-adaptive and context-aware applications. He is a full-time lecturer in Grafton
College of Management Science, Dublin, Ireland. He was member of staff in the National Digital Research Center of Ireland from 2008- 2011.
Fekry Olayah is an assistance professor at Al-Isra University, Jordan. He received His PhD and
M.Sc in Computer Information Systems from the Arab Academy for Banking & Financial Sciences
(Jordan) in 2010 and 2005, respectively. He received his BSc degree in Computer Science from Applied
Science mustansiriyah University (Iraq) in 2000. His current research interests are in Natural language
processing, information retrieval.
Dilip Kumar Sharma is B.Sc, B.E. (CSE), M.Tech. (IT), M.Tech. (CSE) and is pursuing a PhD in
Computer Engineering from Shobhit University, Meerut, UP, India. He is life member of CSI, IETE,
ISTE, ISCA, SSI and member of CSTA, USA. He has attended 21 short term courses/workshops/seminars organized by various esteemed originations. He has published 23 research papers in International
Journals/Conferences of repute and participated in 18 International/National conferences. Presently he
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is working as Reader in Department of Computer Science, IET at GLA University, Mathura, U.P. since
March 2003 and he is also CSI Student branch Coordinator. His research interests are deep Web information retrieval, Digital Watermarking and Software Engineering. He has guided various projects and
seminars undertaken by the students of undergraduate/postgraduate.
Masayuki Shinohara received the BS degree in information and computer sciences from Kanagawa
Institute of Technology, Japan in 2009. His graduate thesis was on Web system composed with a database management system and cell phones that is currently used as “Real time lecture support system
by using cell phone” in actual lectures. He is now a master’s degree student in Kanagawa Institute of
Technology, Japan. His current interests are e-Learning system, Web based information system and motion recognition by acceleration sensors. He is a student member of Institute of Electronics, Information
and Communication Engineers of Japan.
Hiroshi Tanaka received the BS, MS and PhD degrees in precision engineering from Hokkaido
University, Japan in 1983, 1985 and 1994 respectively. He joined NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Corporation) in 1985. He had engaged in the research and development of satellite communication
system. He worked at NASDA (National Space Development Agency of Japan, present JAXA) from
1994 to 1997 for developing satellite systems. After returning to NTT, he worked for mobile satellite
communication systems and ubiquitous systems using RFID. He joined Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan in 2006. He is now a professor of the Department of Information and Computer Sciences.
His current research interests include motion recognition, indoor positioning and its application. He also
has interests on Web based information systems by mobile devices. He is a senior member of AIAA,
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan, Information Processing
Society of Japan.
Elio Toppano received the Doctor degree in electronic engineering from the University of Trieste,
Italy, in 1981. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer
Science of the University of Udine, Italy. His research interests are in the area of ontology engineering
and include knowledge modelling and integration, model based reasoning, design methodologies with
application in e-learning and semantic web services. Also, he has carried out research activity in the
fields of multimedia, human computer interaction and user experience design.
Flora S. Tsai is currently with Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Dr. Tsai is a
graduate of MIT, Columbia University, and NTU with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science. Dr. Tsai’s current research focuses on developing intelligent techniques for data mining in
text and social media, which aims to balance the technical significance and business concerns to create
techniques that are useful in real-world scenarios. In particular, Dr. Tsai has pioneered research in blog
data mining, novelty mining, and mobile information retrieval. Other research interests include software
engineering, mobile application development, cyber security, electronic healthcare, and machine learning
techniques for bioinformatics. Dr. Tsai was a recipient of the 2005 IBM Faculty Award, 2007 IBM Realtime Innovation Award, 2010 IBM Faculty Innovation Award, and has published over 50 international
journal and conference papers. She is a senior member of IEEE and member of ACM.
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Michał Wódczak is a Senior Research Scientist, Program Manager at Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
Applied Research Center in Poland. Michał Wódczak obtained MSc and BSc degrees in Telecommunications in 2001, and PhD degree in Wireless Communications Systems in 2006, all from Poznan University
of Technology, Poland. Currently, Michał Wódczak is Senior Member of IEEE (Communications Society)
and he is involved in standardization activities as a Vice Chairman of the ETSI Industry Specification
Group on Autonomic network engineering for self-managing Future Internet (ETSI ISG AFI), SophiaAntipolis, France. Most recently he has become a Rapporteur of ETSI ISG AFI on Autonomic Ad hoc,
Mesh and Sensor Networks. Besides, he has been involved in the area of autonomic networking in EU
FP7 INFSO-ICT-215549 project EFIPSANS, as well as in the field of emergency communications in
EU FP7 SEC-242411 project E-SPONDER, where he has been also appointed as Innovation Manager.
Prior to that, initially, he was with a telecommunications company, Teletra in Poznan, where he was
responsible for the technology for optical fibre termination, and then, he became a Research Expert at
Poznan University of Technology where he worked full-time in EU FP6 IST-2003-507581 WINNER
and EU FP6 IST-4-027756 WINNER II projects on the topic of cooperative transmission in 4G systems.
Michał Wódczak was also the Editor-in-Chief of the NEWCOM Newsletter in EU FP6 IST-2004-507325
Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications NEWCOM. He has published over 40 scientific
publications in journal, magazine and conference papers, as well as in book chapters. Moreover, his
interests include linguistics and so in 2009 he completed Postgraduate studies in Translation and Interpreting at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Now he additionally serves as Board Member
of the Association of Polish Translators and Interpreters, Warsaw, Poland.
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