First International Conference
on Computing Sciences and Engineering
(ICCSE’ 2015)
Conference Program
Kuwait University, March 15-17, 2015
Web page:
http://ccse.ku.edu.kw/ICCSE2015
Sunday, March 15, 2015
12:30-14:00
Tutorial 1
What is Entrepreneurship?
Prof. Zakaria Maamar, College of Technological Innovation, Zayed
University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
14:00 – 14:15
Tea Break
14:15-15:45
Tutorial 2
Understanding and Leveraging the Use Case Modeling Notation
Dr Mohamed El-Attar, Department of Information and Computer Science, King
Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia.
15:45 – 16:00
Tea Break
16:00-17:30
Tutorial 3
A Touch Base Tutorial on Big data Analytics
Prof. Sabah Mohammed, Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada and Prof.
Jinan Fiaidhi, Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada.
17:30-19:30
Reception and Registration
Monday, March 16, 2015
9:00-9:30
Opening Ceremony
9:30-10:15
Keynote Address 1
Big Data, Opportunities and Challenges
Prof. Stan Matwin, Professor of Computer Science and Canada Research
Chair (Tier 1), and the Director of the Institute for Big Data Analytics,
Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
10:15-10:45
Tea Break
10:45-13:15
Session 1: Invited Papers
Cognitive Radio Networks: Technology, Applications and Advances
Prof. Ahmed E. Kamal, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa
State University, USA.
Research Trends on Analyzing Clinical Narratives Using Big Data and
NLP Technologies
Prof. Sabah Mohammed, Professor of Computer Science, Lakehead
University, Ontario, Canada.
Social Engineering of Business Processes
Prof. Zakaria Maamar, College of Technological Innovation, Zayed
University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Construction of Large Networks
Prof. Mirka Miller, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Newcastle, Australia.
13:15-14:15
Lunch
14:15- 15:00
Keynote Address 2
Haptics: A Multimedia Perspective
Prof. Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik, School of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Canada.
15:00-16:00
Session 2: Invited Papers
The Roadmap to Learning Analytics
Prof. Jinan Fiaidhi, Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada.
Taming Big Data
Prof. Athman Bouguettaya, School of Computer Science and Information
Technology, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
16:00-16:30
Tea Break
16:30-18:00
Session 3A
A Formal Representation of Free Will Actions and Extreme Exogenous Events.
Maria Wenisch, Indi.
Nano topological computing technique for recruitment process.
M.Lellis Thivagar and V.Sudha Devi, India.
Modelling of Land side Hazard using GIS based Methods with a case study.
A. Arivarignan, India.
Multiple Ant Colony Approach in Edge Detection.
Amali Asha, India.
Session 3B
On the Metric Dimension of Tetrahedral Diamond.
Albert William, India.
Resolvability in Graphs of Certain Crystal Structures.
Sathish Krishnan and Bharati Rajan, India.
Metric Dimension of Mesh Connected Trees.
Venugopal, A.Vijayalakshmi and Bharati Rajan, India.
Reversible Transformation Based TextFilter for Lossless Text Compression.
S. Rexline and L. Robert, India.
An efficient integral equation solver for two-dimensional simulations in
nanoplasmonics.
Harun Kurkcu, Kuwait.
Session 3C
Information Systems and Technology in the Fire Service: a literature review.
Dari Alhuwail and Anthony Norcio, Kuwait and USA.
Enabling the Alma Ata Declaration in Modern Times: Kuwait’s Primary Care
Information System.
Dari Alhuwail, Kuwait.
Storage Technologies in Data Centers: A Survey.
Nourah Al-Jallal, Nora Al-Dosary and Imtiaz Ahmad, Kuwait.
Z-Health: A ZigBee-based WBAN for E-Health Monitoring of Children.
Ali Rady, Yasser Khalil, Mahmoud Imdoukh and Mounib Khanafer, Kuwait.
A Survey of the Digital Storage Revolution.
Ahmad Abdullah, Ahmad Bennakhi, Yousef Sharaf and Imtiaz Ahmad, Kuwait.
Session 3D – Industrial Talks
Database Challenges at Kuwait Oil Company
Hussain Hraish, KOC, Kuwait.
KNPC's Journey Towards Securing Industrial Automation and Control System
AbdelAziz Alduaij, Kuwait National Petroleum Company, Kuwait.
Information Technology at DSU
Omar Elgayar, Huawei Company, Kuwait.
E –Services at Ministry of Interior
Tareq Hussain Al-Dusari, Ministry of Interior, Kuwait.
18:30-22:30
Trip and Dinner
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
09:00-09:45
Keynote Address 3
Developing a Research Agenda for the Social, Economic, and Workforce
Implications of Big Data Analytics and Decision Making
Prof. Heikki Topi, Bentley University, MA.
09:45-10:30
Keynote Address 4
Emerging Healthcare Services Based on Real-Time Location Systems
Prof. Daniel Amyot, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, University of Ottawa, Canada.
10:30-11:00
Tea Break
11:15-12:45
Session 4: Invited Papers
Cognitive Cars and Smart Roads- Applications, Challenges and Solutions
Prof. A. Boukerche, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Human Behavior Understanding in Video
Prof. Rita Cucchiara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
(UNIMORE), Italy.
Garment Design and Animation for Virtual Fitting Room
Prof. Ahmad Nasri, American University of Beirut (AUB). Acting President
of Fahad Bin Sultan University in KSA since 2010.
Cyber security: Challenges and Way Forward
Dr. Bader Al-Manthari, Information Security Division (ISD), Information
Technology Authority, Sultanate of Oman.
13:30-14:30
Lunch
14:30-15:30
Session 5: Invited Papers
Optimization Techniques for Sustainability in High-Performance
Computing
Prof. Ishfaq Ahmad, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Texas at Arlington, USA.
The Degree Diameter Problem in a Host Graph
Dr. Joe Ryan, University of Newcastle, Australia.
15:30-16:30
Panel Discussion on Big Data Science for the Social Good.
16:30-17:00
Tea Break
17:00-18:00
Session 6 A
Hybrid Local Search Approximation Algorithm for Solving the Capacitated Mink-Cut Problem.
S. Alqallaf, M. Almulla, L. Niepel and M. Newborn, Kuwait and USA.
Fun Academic Cloud Computing.
Shoug Alfadhli and Asmaa Alsumait, Kuwait.
A new scheme for maximizing the lifetime of heterogeneous wireless sensor
networks.
Reem Aldaihani and Hosam Aboelfotoh, Kuwait.
Session 6 B
Impact of IT on the performance of ESL students: a case study of girls’ primary
schools in Kuwait.
Amina Almutairi, Fatima Boujarwah and Mostafa Abd-El-Barr, Kuwait.
AMUSEum: An Augmented Reality Mobile Application for Musuems.
Sara AbdelAziz Mohamed, Maitha Al-Jassmi, Hanan Al-Sane’a, Aisha Al-Raish,
Amir Zeid, Kuwait.
Adaptive E-Learning Framework Crowd sourcing Approach.
Maha H. Faisal, Aisha W. AlAmeeri, Asmaa A. Alsumait, Kuwait.
Session 6 C – Industrial talks
IT Enterprise Architecture at KOC.
Mohammad Al-Sarraf, KOC, Kuwait
Strategy for Smart Application at KNPC.
Bassam Al-Shemmari, KNPC, Kuwait
Information Technology at PIC.
Mohammad Abu Taleb, PIC, Kuwait
18:30 -19:00
Best Paper Award & Closing Ceremony