Research Interest List IS department

Research Interest List
Research Interest List 
S.No. Name of Faculty Member Research Areas of Interest Research Points (if any)

1

Dr. Abdullah AL-Ghamdi
aalmalaise@kau.edu.sa
  1. Inter/intra-Organizational Collaboration Systems
  2. Information Systems for Business
  3. Software components
  4. Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE)
  5. Object Orientation
  6. CBSE-based Testing
  7. Open Source Systems
  8. Software Risk management
  9. Mobile Applications for the Enterprise
  10. Software architecture &data models for the enterprise.
  11. Business Process and ERP
  12. Modeling of e-government systems & business processes
  • Develop new strategies and techniques for inter/intra-organizational collaboration
  • Business integration with Information Systems
  • Discovery, selection, measurement, quality, trustworthiness, certification, emergent properties, models, application composition, reuse, etc
  • Life cycles, tools, development processes, CBSE-based configuration management
  • UML, analysis, system architecture, design, OO languages, etc
  • Testcase generation, test tools, CSPE
  • Open source cloud systems, open source ERP systems, ERP customization, architecture, design, comparisons, databases, tools, BPM, etc..
  • Planning, processes, tools, etc.
  • Analysis and design for mobility, mobile e-government
  • Modeling concepts, architectural patterns, multi-tier architecture, etc.
  • Business process intelligence, tools, etc.
  • e-government methodology (ie. Yesser), inter-organizational operability, BPM, BPR, etc.

2

Dr. Khalid Alomar
khalomar@kau.edu.sa 
  1. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), with a particular focus on:   Personalized user interfaces (including adaptive, adaptable, and mixed-initiative interfaces).
  2. Universal Usability.
  3. Adaptive systems (e-learning , e-commerce).
  • I'm interested in how to design and evaluate user interfaces that adapt to the needs of individual users (How to enhance GUI)

3

Dr. Adnan Albar
ambar@kau.edu.sa
  1.  E-Government
  2. Business Process Management
  3. IT service management
  4.  IS Enterprise Architecture
  5.  IS Governance
  6. BigData
  7. Mobile Computing
  8. Open Source Systems
  9. Enterprise Resource Planning 
  10. IS Risk Management
  11. Software Engineering
  • Evaluation and analysis of e-gov Yesser methodology
  •  Mobile Government (m-Gov)
  •  Modeling of government business processes
  •  Business Process and ERP
  •  XML Government Business Rules
  •  Applying Information technology Infrastructure Library
  •  Building Business Architecture
  •  Information Architecture of an Enterprise
  •  Application Architecture of an Enterprise
  •  infrastructure Architecture of an Enterprise
  • CobiT
  • Big data analysis and data mining
  • Building Mobile Applications for the Enterprise
  • Mobile operating systetms 
  • Mobile Computing Security
  • Open Source systems (databases, ERPs, Tools, BPM,…)
  • ERP design and Architecture
  • Comparing Commercial ERP systems
  • Comparing open source ERP
  • Customizing open source ERP for Government 
  • Customizing open source ERP for Private sectors 
  • Building Cloud opne source ERP
  • Building IS Risk management Competency
  • Component Based Software development
  • SW components (discovery, selection, measurment, etc)

4

Dr. Ibrahim albidewi
ialbidewi@kau.edu.sa
  1. Information Systems Strategy 
  • The Development of PESTLIED Analysis Information System
  • The Automation of University Strategy Map using Balanced Scorecard Approach
  • The implementation of Information System to Support Personal Leadership Strategy
  • The Automation of Strategic Thinking and Planning
  • The Development of Blue Ocean Strategy Information System
  • Evaluation of Information Technology and Information Systems KPIs
  • The Development of Strategic Objectives using Value Chain Analysis

5

Dr. Gibrael AboSamra
gabosamra@kau.edu.sa
  1. Expert Systems
  2. Decision Support Systems
  3. Pattern Analysis
  4. Pattern  Recognition
  • rule-based or fuzzy expert systems for real problems
  • using Decision trees, Bayesian approach or other approaches for educational processes  
  • video sequences in some sectors in real life
  • signature, handwriting, objects

6

Dr. Mostafa Saleh
msherbini@kau.edu.sa
  1.  Arabic Text Mining
  2. Arabic Semantic Web
  3. Arabic Text Mining
  4. Semantic Annotation
  5. E-Learning Standards
  • NER in Arabic Text
  • Building Semantic Lexicon for Arabic
  • Opinion Mining in Arabic
  • Annotating Documents with Semantic Features
  • Augumenting SCORM with Personalization Features

7

Dr. Maram Meccawy
mmeccawy@kau.ed.sa
  1. E- Learning
  2. Adaptive Educational Systems
  3. Web Engineering
  4. Web Technologies
  5. Web Services
  6. User Modelling
  7. Internet Security
  8. Web 2.0
  9. Adaptive Hypermedia
  10. Cloud Computing
  11. e-news
  12. online journalism & social media
  13. Semantic Web
 

8

Dr. Farrukh Nadeem
fabdullatif@kau.edu.sa
  1. Distributed Systems
  2. Grid/Cloud Computing
  3. Data Mining
  4. Performance evaluation and prediction
 

9

Dr. Daniyal Alghazzawi
dghazzawi@kau.edu.sa
  1. Information Security
  2. eLearning and Education


10

Dr. Muazzam Siddiqui
maasiddiqui@kau.edu.sa
  1. Data mining
  2. text mining
  3. Arabic natural language processing
  4. information extraction and visualization
  5. sentiment analysis
  6. topic modeling


11

Dr. Noorchan Elleuch Ben Ayed
nbenayed@kau.edu.sa
  1. Model Transformation
  2. Model-Driven Architecture
  3. Meta-Modeling: Foundations and Tools
  4. software architecture
  5. architectural styles
  6. verification
  7. Business modelling
  8. Business and IS alignment
  • Information System Modeling towards derivation of Business Process by using MDA and metamodelling tools

12

Dr. Ahtisham Aslam
maaslam@kau.edu.sa
  1. Semantic Web
  2. Semantic Web Services
  3. Linked Open Data
  4. Social Semantic Web
  • Extracting Knowledge from Structured and Unstructured Documents
  • Bringing the KAU in the Cloud of Linked Open Data (LOD)
  • Analysis of Social Cloud
  • Query Optimization

13

Dr. Jayapraksh Kar
jgopabandhu@kau.edu.sa
  1. Designing new, provably secure cryptographic primitives and protocols.
  2. Develop a model to understand the emerging concept of energy security of smart phones.
  3. Develop low cost methodologies and techniques to achieve energy security of smart phones.
  4. Validate the methodologies and techniques by means of analysis, simulations, and implementations.
  5. Improving the security and/or efficiency of cryptographic applications.
  6. Formalizing and analyzing common cryptographic practices.
  • Online/Off-line Signature Scheme using Eliptic Curve Cryptography.
  • Signcryption Scheme on both Random and Standard Model using Elliptic Curve and Pairing based Cryptography.
  • Key management problem of broadcast encryption.
  • Proxy Blind Signature scheme using Elliptic Curve Cryptography.
  • Validate the developed schemes by means of analysis, simulations, and implementation on constrained handheld devices such as smart card, PDA, Wireless Sensor Networks etc (not limited to these).

14

Dr. Syed Faizan Haider
shaider@kau.edu.sa
  1. Bio –SocioInformatics.
  2. Dispensing ICT literacy .
  • Bio –SocioInformatics study (KSA) related to the professionals in the ICT
  • Evaluate the perspective Potential of dispensing ICT literacy in the Kingdom

15

Dr. Alaa Almagrabi
aalmagrabi3@kau.edu.sa
  1. Mobile Computing.
  2. Mobile Applications for the Enterprise .
  3. Context Awareness.
  4. ONTOLOGY.
  5. Messaging and addressing applications.
  6. Spatial Modeling.
  7. Disaster management.
  8. Decision Support system.

16

Dr. Saleh Alshomrani
sshomrani@kau.edu.sa
  1. Web/Data Mining (Data Extraction and Classification)
  2. Web/Internet Technologies and Protocols
  3. Web Design and Programming,
  4. Web Distributed Databases.
  5. Symbolic Computations.
  6. E-Systems (E-Commerce, E-Government, and E-Learning).
  7. XML-Based Languages and Systems.
  8. Search Engines and Optimization
  9. Internet Security
  10. Algorithms

17

Dr. Mahmoud Kamel
sshomrani@kau.edu.sa
  1. E-Business
  2. E-Service
  3. Virtual Robos
  4. Pattern Recognition
  • Optimizing marketing planning and budgeting using Markov decision
  • Easishop: Ambient intelligence assists everyday shopping
  • E-Service Intelligence
  • Virtual Robot Experimentation Platform
  • EEG Preprocessing
  • feature extraction for classification in bci
  • Classification algorithms for SSVEP and P300
  • Classification algorithms for motor imagery
  • Neurofeedback training in children with autism
  • Analyses of EEG background activity in Autism disorders with fast Fourier transform and short time Fourier measure

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