Dr. Jamal Alhiyafi
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
College of Computer Science and Information Technology,
Department of Computer Information Systems
University of Dammam
Phone: +966 13 3332008
Fax: +966 13 3330256
Email: jalhiyafi AT ud DOT edu DOT sa
URL: [You UD website goes here (if you have one)]
Research interests
1. High Performance Computing
2. Scientific Workflow Systems
3. Cloud Computing
Selected publications
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Journal Articles (4)
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Alhiyafi, J., Lu, S. and Ram, J.L. (2012), ‘Scientific Workflow
Composition in Heterogeneous Environments’, International Journal of
Intelligent Information Processing, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 25-36.
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Alhiyafi, J., Sabesan, C., Lu, S. and Ram, J.L. (2009) ‘RECOMBFLOW:
a scientific workflow environment for Intragenomic Gene Conversion
analysis in bacterial genomes, including the pathogen Streptococcus
pyogenes’, Int. J. of Bioinformatic Research and Applications, Vol. 5, No.
1, pp.1-19.
3.
Alhiyafi, J., Sabesan, C., Lu, S. and Ram, J.L. (2009) ‘Association
analysis between Intragenomic Gene Conversions and pathogenicity in
genomes of Escherichia coli and Shigella spp.: a scientific workflow
approach’, Int. J. Functional Informatics and Personalized Medicine,
Vol. 2, No. 1, pp.57-76.
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Alhiyafi, J., Lu, S. and Ram, J.L. (2009) ‘Simulation of Genomic
Recombination and the Influence of DNA Sequence Diversity on Cluster
Formation and Detectability of Recombination: A Scientific Workflow
Method', Int. J. of Computational Biology and Drug Design, Vol. 2, No.
1, pp.81-99.
Conference Papers (1)
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Alhiyafi, J., Sabesan, C., Lu, S., Harriott, M., Jurczyszyn, D., Ritchie,
R.P., Gonzales, F.S. and Ram, J.L. (2007) ‘Computational methods for
analysis of cryptic recombination in the performance of genomic
recombination detection software’, Proc. 2007 IEEE International
Symposium on Bioinformatics and Life Science Computing (BLSC’07),
Vol. AINAW07, pp.707–712.
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Selected Topics in Computer Science
Websites Design
Database Management Systems
Professional Responsibilities
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