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 08:30-09:00

Registration

09:00-09:15

Welcome Address

09:15-10:00 Sponsors Address

10:00-10:45

Keynote Address: Big Data: Bioinformatics Data and Related Computational Issues

er: Eric Rouchka (University of Louisville,

10:45-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-13:00

Session 1: Information Technology Applications - Part I

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:15-16:00

Workshop: Business-IT Alignment as a Governance Mechanism

zer: Mounir Elkhatib (Ajman sity of Science & Technology,

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:30

Session 2: Information Technology Applications - Part II

Sunday, December 12 10:00-12:00 Opening Ceremony

12:00-13:00

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)

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:15-16:15

Session 3: Special Purpose Algorithms and Architectures

Monday, December 13 09:00-10:00

Keynote Address: E-Notary Services 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

12:30-13:00

Closing Ceremony

13:00-14:00

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