ICTITA Ajman 2010
International Conference on Trends in Information Technology and Applications Program
Time
Sheikh Zayed Center For Conferences And Exhibitions - Hall 1
Sheikh Zayed Center For Conferences And Exhibitions Hall 8
Sheikh Zayed Center For Conferences And Exhibitions - Main Foyer
Saturday, December 11 08:3009:00 09:0009:15 09:1510:00
Registration Welcome Address Sponsors Address Keynote Address: Big Data:
10:0010:45
Bioinformatics Data and Related Computational Issues
er: Eric Rouchka (University of Louisville,
10:4511:00
Coffee Break Session 1: Information
11:0013:00
Technology Applications - Part I
13:0014:00
Lunch Workshop: Business-IT
Alignment as a Governance Mechanism
14:1516:00
zer: Mounir Elkhatib (Ajman sity of Science & Technology,
16:0016:30
Coffee Break Session 2: Information
16:3018:30
Technology Applications - Part II
Sunday, December 12 10:0012:00
Opening Ceremony
12:0013:00
Keynote Address: The Smart Grid: Integrating the 20th Century Power Grid with the 21st Century Computing,
Telecommunications and Internet Technologies" er: Abdulrahman Al-Ali (American sity Sharjah, UAE) 13:0014:00 14:1516:15
Lunch Session 3: Special Purpose Algorithms and Architectures
Monday, December 13 09:0010:00 10:0010:30
Keynote Address: E-Notary Services Speaker: Usman Zafa (Bseen, UAE)
Coffee Break Session 4: Web Services and On Line Information Technology Resources
10:3012:30 12:3013:00 13:0014:00
Closing Ceremony Lunch
Saturday, December 11 08:30 - 09:00 Registration Room: Sheikh Zayed Center for Conferences and Exhibitions - Main Foyer
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome Address Room: Sheikh Zayed Center for Conferences and Exhibitions - Hall 1
09:15 - 10:00 Sponsors Address Room: Sheikh Zayed Center for Conferences and Exhibitions - Hall 1
10:00 - 10:45 Keynote Address: Big Data: Bioinformatics Data and Related Computational Issues Room: Sheikh Zayed Center for Conferences and Exhibitions - Hall 1 Speaker: Eric Rouchka (University of Louisville, USA)
10:45 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00 Session 1: Information Technology Applications - Part I This session covers papers in the area of information technology application in various domains.
Room: Sheikh Zayed Center for Conferences and Exhibitions - Hall 8 Chair: Mahir Ali (Sharjah University, UAE)
A TAM Model to Evaluate User's Attitude Towards Adoption of Online Background Screening Systems
Meshack Muderedzwa (North-West University, South Africa); Emmanual Nyakwende (Al Faisal University, Prince Sultan College, Saudi Arabia)
Parallel K-modes Clustering Algorithm on DSM
Sarab Al Muhaideb (Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia); Nouf Al Sudairy (Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia)
A New Architecture for Context-Aware Systems
Azadeh Eatedali (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran); Hamidreza Hosseini (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
A New Approach to Context Distribution in Large-Scale Environments
Hamed Vahdat-Nejad (University of Isfahan, Iran); Kamran Zamanifar (University of Isfahan, Iran); Naser Nematbakhsh (University of Isfahan, Iran)
Thought Based PIN Generation Using Single Channel EEG Biometric
Ramaswamy Palaniappan (University of Essex, United Kingdom); Jenish Gosalia (Toumaz Technology Limited, United Kingdom); Kenneth R Revett (British University in Egypt, Egypt)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:15 - 16:00 Workshop: Business-IT Alignment as a Governance Mechanism Room: Sheikh Zayed Center for Conferences and Exhibitions - Hall 8 Organizer: Mounir Elkhatib (Ajman University of Science & Technology, UAE)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:30 Session 2: Information Technology Applications - Part II This session covers papers presented on information technology applications in various domains.
Room: Sheikh Zayed Center for Conferences and Exhibitions - Hall 8 Chair: Abdelaziz Araar (Ajman University, UAE)
Broadband Inter-networking Technologies and Convergence Services Evolution for Market Competitiveness in MexicoGerardo Chavez (IEEE Mexico Council, Mexico) Role Allocation and Scheme in Teaching Software Engineering Course Project Ghafour Alipour (Islamic Azad University, Hashtroud Branch, Iran)
Examination of the Feature Space of an Anthropometric Body Fat Dataset Kenneth R Revett (British University in Egypt, Egypt)
Usability Design Guidelines and Evaluation Techniques for Handheld Interactive Devices Focusing Developing Countries
Shakeel Ahmed Khoja (Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi, Pakistan); Qurban Ali Memon (United Arab Emirates University, UAE)
UTalk: An Arabic Talking Browser
Hesham Kamel (UAE University, UAE); Harmain Harmain (United Arab Emirates University, UAE); Driss Guerchi (Canadian University of Dubai, UAE)
Sunday, December 12 10:00 - 12:00 Opening Ceremony Room: Sheikh Zayed Center for Conferences and Exhibitions - Hall 1
12:00 - 13:00 Keynote Address: The Smart Grid: Integrating the 20th Century Power Grid with the 21st Century Computing, Telecommunications and Internet Technologies" Room: Sheikh Zayed Center for Conferences and Exhibitions - Hall 1 Speaker: Abdulrahman Al-Ali (American University Sharjah, UAE)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:15 - 16:15 Session 3: Special Purpose Algorithms and Architectures This session covers papers in the area of speech and image processing related to applications of information technology.
Room: Sheikh Zayed Center for Conferences and Exhibitions - Hall 8 Chair: Eweda Eweda (Ajman University, UAE)
Universal Mobile Communication Azizul Islam (United Commercial bank Ltd., Bangladesh)
Improvement of Non Linear Equalizer for Telephone Circuit Channels Laith Awda Kadhim (University of Baghdad (UOB), Iraq)
Blind Mixing Matrix Estimation of Speech Source Signals Using ST-WPT Analysis by L M in Under-determined Cases Based on Clustering Method Behzad Mozaffari (University of Tabriz, Iran); Mohammad Ali Tinati (University of Tabriz, Iran)
The Cycle Spinning Based Contourlet Transform for Despeckling Medical Ultrasound Image Prema T. Akkasaligar (Gulbarga University, India); Sharan Badiger (BLDE University, India)
A New Algorithm for Watermarking Images Captured by Mobile Phone Camera Kamal Ahmed (Khalifa University for Research And Technology, UAE); Hussain Al-Ahmad (Khalifa University, UAE); Patrick Gaydecki (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
Monday, December 13 09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Address: E-Notary Services Room: Sheikh Zayed Center for Conferences and Exhibitions - Hall 1 Speaker: Usman Zafa (Bseen, UAE)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30 Session 4: Web Services and On Line Information Technology Resources This session covers papers in the area of on line services and information technology resources.
Room: Sheikh Zayed Center for Conferences and Exhibitions - Hall 8 Chair: Abdelaziz M Khamis (Arab Open University, Egypt)
Decentralized Job Scheduler in Desktop Grid Entisar Alkayal (KAU, Saudi Arabia)
Evaluating Structural and Navigability Metrics Differences Among Different Business Domains
Izzat M Alsmadi (Yarmouk University, Jordan)
Challenges in Ensuring Interoperability in Web Services Sherimon P. C. (Arab Open University, Oman)
An Efficient Approach to Create High Quality Danish Arabic Language Resources
Mossab Al Hunaity (Ajman University for Science and Technology, UAE); Mirna Nachouki (Ajman University for Science and Technology, UAE)
Towards an Efficient Danish Arabic Statistical Machine Translation
Mossab Al Hunaity (Ajman University for Science and Technology, UAE)
12:30 - 13:00 Closing Ceremony
Room: Sheikh Zayed Center for Conferences and Exhibitions - Hall 1
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch