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STC R4P, SAR 319,500.00
DroneMap, SAR 181,000.00
Funded research projects in progress (2015-2016)
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الدفاع
Preface
This Annual Report covers the activities of the Prince Megrin Data Mining Center (MEGDAM) at Prince Sultan University for
the academic year 2015-2016. The Author of this report would like to thank Dr. Ahmed Yamani, Rector PSU, for his
continued support in all activities of the center, Dr. Abdul Hafeez Feda, Vice-Rector for Academics and Research and Dr.
Musaed Al Muqbil, Dean of Higher Studies and Research at PSU.
The author would like to thank Dr. Jarallah Al Ghamdi Chair MEGDAM Executive Committee, Executive Committee Members
as well as MEGDAM staff.
Basit Qureshi PhD, FHEA
Director Prince Megrin Data Mining Center at Prince Sultan University
May 1, 2016.
Contents 1. About MEGDAM ...................................................................................................................................... 1
MEGDAM Strategic Plan 2012-2017 .............................................................................................................. 2
Vision: .............................................................................................................................................. 2
Mission: ............................................................................................................................................ 2
Objectives: ........................................................................................................................................ 3
MEGDAM Executive Committee ................................................................................................................... 5
MEGDAM Team....................................................................................................................................... 5
2. MEGDAM Services ................................................................................................................................... 6
Research .............................................................................................................................................. 6
MEGDAM Research Focus Areas ................................................................................................................ 6
Training ............................................................................................................................................... 7
Data Analytics Track ............................................................................................................................. 8
Cloud Infrastructure Track ...................................................................................................................... 9
Consultation ....................................................................................................................................... 10
3. Research Activities ............................................................................................................................... 12
Research Focus Groups ........................................................................................................................... 12
Arabic Text Mining Group ..................................................................................................................... 13
Social Network Analysis Group ............................................................................................................... 14
Business Analytics and Knowledge Discovery ............................................................................................. 15
Big Data Mining and Cloud Computing ...................................................................................................... 16
Funded Research .................................................................................................................................. 17
Internal Funding ................................................................................................................................ 17
External Funding................................................................................................................................ 19
MEGDAM Team Publications 2015-2016 ...................................................................................................... 22
Peer Reviewed Journal Papers / Book Chapters / Conference Proceedings ............................................................... 23
International Peer Reviewed Conference Papers ............................................................................................ 24
Short Papers / Forum ............................................................................................................................ 26
Review of MEGDAM Funding bylaws ........................................................................................................... 27
Symposium on Data Mining Applications (SDMA 2016)..................................................................................... 28
About the Symposium ......................................................................................................................... 28
About SDMA2016 ............................................................................................................................... 29
Symposium chairs and Technical Program Committee ................................................................................... 30
Publication of Proceedings ................................................................................................................... 33
Keynote Speaker................................................................................................................................ 34
Sponsors ......................................................................................................................................... 35
SDMA Organization Committees ............................................................................................................. 36
Submissions, Review process and acceptance: ............................................................................................ 37
SDMA2016 Program and Organization ...................................................................................................... 43
Some facts about SDMA2016 participants: ................................................................................................. 46
Appreciation and Thanks: ..................................................................................................................... 49
SDMA2016 Guests ................................................................................................................................ 49
The Prince Sultan University Leadership ...................................................................................................... 49
SDMA2016 Chairs: ................................................................................................................................ 49
ACM PSU Chapter: ................................................................................................................................. 49
SDMA2016 Session chairs: ....................................................................................................................... 50
SDMA2016 Organizing Committee members: ................................................................................................ 50
Volunteer Students: .............................................................................................................................. 51
Publicity: ........................................................................................................................................... 51
Cost of the Symposium ........................................................................................................................ 52
Summary ......................................................................................................................................... 53
RTC CCIS Forum .................................................................................................................................... 54
RTC Research Exhibition Women Campus ..................................................................................................... 55
Seminars, Research Talks and Presentations ................................................................................................. 56
Student Supervision .............................................................................................................................. 60
Graduate Thesis Supervision ................................................................................................................. 60
Undergraduate Research / Project Supervision ........................................................................................... 61
Funded Research Project Supervision ....................................................................................................... 62
4. Trainings ........................................................................................................................................... 63
ACM MEGDAM Java Training Workshop Series ............................................................................................... 63
MEGDAM Student Club Training ................................................................................................................ 64
MEGDAM CCIS Faculty Trainings ................................................................................................................ 66
FHEA Training and Seminars .................................................................................................................. 66
Training on Labview ........................................................................................................................... 67
5. Consultation and Outreach ...................................................................................................................... 68
R4P STC Project .................................................................................................................................... 68
1st MEGDAM Convention ........................................................................................................................ 69
IBM BlueMix ........................................................................................................................................ 70
IEEE Extreme 9.0................................................................................................................................... 71
Programming Jam ................................................................................................................................. 74
About Programming Jam ...................................................................................................................... 74
Programming Jam 2.0 ......................................................................................................................... 75
Newsletters and Reports ......................................................................................................................... 77
6. MEGDAM Infrastructure .......................................................................................................................... 78
KACST Incubator ................................................................................................................................... 78
DroneMap Project Equipment ................................................................................................................ 79
MEGADM Lobby renovation ...................................................................................................................... 80
MEGDAM DataCenter ............................................................................................................................. 82
RPi Cluster ....................................................................................................................................... 82
XU 40 Cluster .................................................................................................................................... 83
8TB Network Attached Storage............................................................................................................... 84
MEGDAM Server ................................................................................................................................... 85
MEGDAM Websites ................................................................................................................................ 86
7. Summary ........................................................................................................................................... 87
KACST Incubator ........................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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1. About MEGDAM
Prince Megrin Data Mining Center (MEGDAM) was
established in 2010 at Prince Sultan University. His
Royal Highness Prince Megrin bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud,
graciously financed the establishment of the Center
at Prince Sultan University to further scientific
research in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery,
serving the needs of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This
initiative comes in line with the previous great efforts
made by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to encourage
the shift towards a knowledge society in light of the
enormous acceleration in the growth of electronic
data. Thus, it is important to invest in information
technology and the exploration and extraction of
knowledge from various data to take advantage of the
opportunities offered by recent developments in the
field of data mining.
This report highlights the activities of the Center for
the academic year 2015-2016.
His Royal Highness Prince Megrin bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud
and His Excellency Dr. Ahmed Al Yamani, Rector, Prince Sultan University, at the
MEGDAM establishment ceremony, 2010.
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MEGDAM Strategic Plan 2012-2017
MEGDAM Executive committee approved to update the existing strategic plan that was set up for years 2010-2012. The initiative
was taken by the center to update the documentation and design it for the next three years. Following presents, a brief summary
of the Strategic Plan 2013-2017.
Vision:
Achieve regional leadership in research and development in the area of Data Mining
Mission:
Conduct Scientific Research in Applied Data Mining and facilitate knowledge transfer to the Kingdom
Develop National capacities in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery through cooperation with Leading International
Centers and Distinguished researchers
Encourage Center Sustainability for diverse and productive incubation of innovative ideas, services and practices related
to Data Mining
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Objectives:
1. Raise awareness of the importance of data mining and applications in the Kingdom
2. Encourage research in development of data mining techniques, methods and applications
3. Facilitate transfer of Knowledge to Kingdom through cooperation with international specialized centers and
distinguished researchers with training and joint research collaboration
4. Provide consultancy and services to commercial / industrial organizations to optimally exploit their data and optimize
operations
5. Support Prince Sultan University in educating the next generation of science and technology professionals
Each Objective was mapped to clearly defined goals that were further mapped to action items for the next few years. Progress in
each action item is determined using a measure that defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). In addition, a proposed budget
and time frame is defined for each action item.
Fifteen Key Performance Indicators for strategic action plan for year 2013-17 were identified. These indicators have been
categorized into 3 groups:
• Research team, manpower and funding
• Research Productivity
• Infrastructure / Community Service
These KPIs have been carefully chosen from the Ministry of Higher Education bulletin for recommended KPIs for Scientific
Research in Saudi Universities.
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KPI# MoHE KPIs #* Description
A. Research team, manpower and funding
A1 011 Number of Researchers / research affiliates with PhD
A2 013 Number of Researchers / research affiliates non-PhD
A3 0312/0313 Number of Master / PhD student thesis supervision
A4 021 Amount of budget allocation for research
A5 022 Amount of Internal and External funding for projects
KPI# MoHE KPIs #* Description
B. Research Productivity
B1 031 Number of ISI indexed journal publications
B2 035 Number of peer reviewed International conferences
B3 039 Number of Book chapters, books, conference proceeding, journal editorials
B4 0314/0315 Number of patents received or applied
B5 0321 Number of research projects in progress or applied for
KPI# MoHE KPIs #* Description
C. Infrastructure / Community Service
C1 0318 Number of Symposia, workshops, conferences held at PSU
C2 041 Number of Training workshops given/ attended
C3 065 Number of titles in Megdam Library
C4 063 Equipment, databases and software in Megdam Labs
C5 0319 Number of consultations provided
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* Indicators for Measuring and Evaluating Scientific Research in Saudi Universities, Ministry of Higher Education, Educational Affairs, Saudi Centers of
Research Excellence (SCORE)
MEGDAM Executive Committee
On the directive of Dr. Ahmad Al Yamani, Rector Prince Sultan University, the following members were appointed to the
MEGDAM Executive Committee for the year 2015-2016.
Dr. Jarallah Al Ghamdi Dean College of Computer and Info Sc. (Chair of Committee)
Dr. Basit Qureshi Director, MEGDAM (Secretary of Council)
Dr. Abdul Aziz Al Sehibani Dean Admissions and Registration
Dr. Ahmed Sameh Chairman Information System Department
Dr. Mamdouh Al Enezi Chairman Computer Science Department
Dr. Mohammad El Affendi
Dr. Mohamed Tounsi
The center is governed by the Executive Committee’s decisions on all matters. The Chair of the committee and the Director of
the center report to the Dean of Research and higher studies as well as the Vice Rector for Academics and Research at Prince
Sultan University.
MEGDAM Team
MEGDAM team is composed of the following personnel:
Dr. Basit Qureshi Director of the Center
Yasir Javed Research Engineer
Ahmad Al Maiman Web Manager
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2. MEGDAM Services
Research
MEGDAM team conducts research and produces high quality publications directed towards internationally recognized and peer
reviewed publication venues. To this end, the center carries out various research related activities and events to further research
and scholarship at Prince Sultan University.
MEGDAM Research Focus Areas
MEGDAM Strategic Action Plan for years 2012-2017 defines
research focus areas as following:
Data Mining is a broad research area in Computer Science that
deals with knowledge discovery in large data sets.
Underneath Data Mining and Knowledge discovery as an
umbrella term, Prince Megrin Data Mining Center established
four focus areas in which to develop forte. These areas were
identified by considering current strengths, future needs of
the Kingdom, and potential for growth in the region.
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Training
MEGDAM in collaboration with the Community Center and Prince
Sultan University provides technical trainings for individuals,
professionals and institutions. The intent of these training programs is
to train candidates in short time by providing hands-on courses related
to the fundamentals of Data Mining, Applications and Analytics.
The trainings are offered individually as well as in a set of two tracks.
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Data Analytics Track
This track provides various trainings that takes the trainee through fundamental concepts in data mining, towards
advanced features of data analytics, algorithms for big data mining as well as business intelligence and data
warehousing.
Each of these specialties focuses on training the students to prepare for a well known internationally recognized
certification such as Oracle, TDWI etc.
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Cloud Infrastructure Track
This track provides various training to prepare students in basics of Cloud Computing as well as fundamental
knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure.
Each of these specialties focuses on training the students to prepare for a well known internationally recognized certification
such as EMC2 and IBM.
Further details are available at www.megdam.org/training
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Consultation
MEGDAM has established various collaborations with internationally recognized institutes. These collaborations have effectively
enabled the team to participate in joint research projects resulting in publications.
In addition, MEGDAM collaborated with well-known academics and researchers for evaluation quality of research proposals
submitted in response to MEGDAM.15 call for funded research projects as well as manuscript submissions for the 4rth Symposium
on Data Mining and Applications (SDMA2016).
MEGDAM also is currently working in coordination with STC on a joint research project funded by STC.
Following lists, the MEGDAM collaboration with these institutions:
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Designed Undergraduate course CS495 “Cloud Computing” in association with EMC2.
Oracle funded and Sponsored SDMA2016 partially.
HP Autonomy Data Analytics was used for designing BIBDA Certificate Program
IBM Enterprise Software Architecture was used for graduate course: SE501 Software Development Processes.
STC-MEGDAM: R4P project (under progress) – to complete in August 2016.
Two research projects in progress with KACST
Two research projects already approved by KACST
Three research projects submitted to KACST for funding.
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3. Research ActivitiesThis section provides details about research activities carried out during 2015-2016 at MEGDAM.
Research Focus Groups
Based on the Focus areas previously defined, the center appointed team leaders in each focus area to consolidate focused research
in these specializations. MEGDAM made a general call for CCIS faculty to join focus research groups. Various faculty members on
both campuses joined some of these groups based on their research interests. Following presents, a brief detail for each focus
group.
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Arabic Text Mining Group
Conducts research in
Using NLP to improve Classification of Arabic documents
Corpus based approaches to automated creation of Arabic documents
Arabic Natural Language Processing using text / speech tagging
Team Dr. Mohammad El Affendi (Leader)
Students Three MSE Thesis students are currently being supervised
One BS Student is currently working on Arabic Corpus
Tools created BS CS Students created tool for Arabic NLP
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Social Network Analysis Group
Conducts research in
Social network data monitoring and analysis tools and services
Trend extrapolation and extraction from social network data
Case Studies in User Behavior Patterns mining in Social Media
Team
Dr. Ahmed Sameh (Leader)
Dr. Iman Momani
Dr. Soumaya Chaffar
Ms. Ishrat Khan
Ms. Roohi Jan
Ms. Fatimah Khan
Students One PhD student registered in Wuhan University China, is under co-supervision
One MSE student completed Thesis work
Two BS IS students created tools for Social Networks and completed their COOP
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Business Analytics and Knowledge Discovery
Conducts research in
Data Mining Algorithms for Breast Cancer detection
Fraud Mining in Financial Transactions
Team
Dr. Mohamed Tounsi (leader)
Dr. Mohammad Zarour
Dr. Iman Momani
Dr. Thavavel
Dr. Liaqatunisa Syed
Dr. Saima Jabeen
Dr. Suad Ramouni
Dr. Mouna Benissa
Students Various female MSE Student are currently under supervision
External Funding Dr. Tounsi is an investigator for funded research grants provided by KACST and RTC@PSU. Dr.
Saima Jabeen and Dr. Iman Momani have applied for grants from RTC as well as KACST.
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Big Data Mining and Cloud Computing
Most of
the
research culminating from these teams is published in international journals and reputable conferences. A total of 42 publications
from MEGDAM Team were made in years 2013-2016.
Conducts research in Cloud based Data analytics for streams of data from UAVs
Cloud based framework for Smart cities
Team
Dr. Basit Qureshi (Leader)
Dr. Anis Koubaa
Dr. Mamdouh AlEnezi
Dr. Liaqatunisa Syed
Students One MSE Student completed Thesis work. Two MSE students are currently supervised by Dr.
Mamdouh.
External Funding Dr. Basit is an investigator for funded research grants provided by KACST as well as RTC@PSU.
Dr. Mamdouh Al Enezi recently acquired a KACST grant in the same research area.
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Funded Research
Research being an integral part of the center, MEGDAM encourages associated faculty members to seek funding from research
funding agencies, government and commercial organizations as well as seed projects. Following presents Current research funded
projects for the year 2015-2016.
Internal Funding
In December 2015, MEGDAM made a call for funded research proposals. In response to this call six research project proposals
were submitted. As MEGDAM bylaws dictate, research projects were screened by the MEGDAM executive committee. Based on this
screening, four out of six projects were recommended for the next stage of review.
The Initial screening of the submissions was completed and final decisions on the project were taken on March 16, 2016. Only four out of six submitted proposals were accepted for further review.
As per new future directions for MEGDAM, all research proposal funding requests would be forwarded to RTC. On April 6, 2016, MEGDAM forwarded the accepted research proposals to Research and Translation Center at
Prince Sultan University.
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MEGDAM.15.1
Project Title: “Development of a fault detection and isolation system for continuous glucose monitors”
Project Team Leader: Ali Al Matouq (CoEngineering)
Duration: Long Term
Screening Response: Refuse: Project does not fit MEGDAM focus areas
MEGDAM.15.2
Project Title: “Building Competency Repository for Software Engineers in Saudi Arabia for Mining Purposes - Phase-1”
Project Team Leader: Mohammad Zarour (CCIS)
Duration: Short Term
Screening Response: Refuse: Source of Data and Methodology is not acceptable
MEGDAM.15.3
Project Title: “Opinion mining and Sentiment analysis in Arabic
Project Team Leader: Somayya Chaffar (CCIS)
Duration: Long Term
Screening Response: Accept after revision
MEGDAM.15.4
Project Title: “Occupational Accidents in Construction Industry of Saudi Arabia: A Proactive Data Mining Approach (PDMA)”
Project Team Leader: Zubair Memon (CoEngineering)
Duration: Long Term
Screening Response: Accept after revision
MEGDAM.15.5
Project Title: “Analysis of Objective Video Quality of a Large Scale HEVC Videos Database”
Project Team Leader: Muhammad Shahid (CoEngineering)
Duration: Short Term
Screening Response: Accept after revision
MEGDAM.15.6
Project Title: Data Mining of Chronic Diseases in Human and Animals for prognostics and Treatment
Project Team Leader: Irfan Manarvi (CoEngineering)
Duration: Long Term
Screening Response: Accept after revision
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External Funding
CCIS Faculty members associated with MEGDAM sought research funding from external sources. Two research projects were
approved and initiated at MEGDAM for the academic year 2015-2016. Total funds attracted to PSU during this academic year were
500,500.00 Saudi Riyals.
STC R4P, SAR 319,500.00
DroneMap, SAR 181,000.00
Funded research projects in progress (2015-2016)
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Following presents details for these two research projects:
Title Repeat Rate Reduction Research Project (R4P)
Funding Source Saudi Telecom Company (STC).
Investigators Dr. Basit Qureshi, Dr. Mohammad Al Affendi, Dr. Mamdouh Al Enezi, Dr. Ahmed Sameh, Dr. Mohamed Tounsi
Grant 319,500 Saudi Riyals
Duration 6 months
Start Date February 2016.
Completion Date September 2016.
A joint project as part of collaboration between STC and MEGDAM initiated on 1st Feb 2016. The project involves multiple tasks of
importance to research at MEGDAM. When completed the developed research and tool would allow STC to improve Quality of
Service of various STC services to their customers.
As part of the project MEGDAM team visited STC several times of the last few months to collect data and requirements for further
analysis. MEGDAM team had several meetings with the STC Vice President as well as his team and various departments. MEGDAM
team were granted access to STC headquarters in Al Mursalat district in Riyadh until the completion of the project.
STC provided necessary equipment for carrying out research including Laptop computers as well as computer screen. MEGDAM
was also given access to software available to the project team.
As part of the project, MEGDAM team is required to equip students with knowledge and understanding of data mining tools,
programming and basic understanding of data analytics. A team of four students including Ala’a Ezziddin, Muhammad Bahjat, Anas
Kanhoush and Anas Abdulhalim are currently working on building their skill-set in responsive web designing and data mining tools
usage under the mentorship of MEGDAM center.
The project would also provide opportunities for PSU students to conduct their COOP training. During the summer training, the
team would be involved in developing software.
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Title Dronemap: A Cloud Robotics System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Surveillance Applications
Funding Source King Abdul Aziz City of Science and Technology (KACST)
Investigators Dr. Anis Koubaa, Dr. Basit Qureshi
Grant 181,000 Saudi Riyals
Duration 12 months
Start Date September 2015.
Completion Date October 2016.
Abstract: Cloud Robotics is currently a growing research area where mobile robots with limited onboard computation and storage
capabilities, connect to the public cloud domain for: 1) sending data to be stored, 2) off-loading computation for faster processing
of data. The dynamic nature and ever changing position of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) makes Internet connectivity a
challenge, however, recent advances in 4G / 5G communications has allowed seamless and reliable connectivity in data
transmission. It has now become possible to offload computation from the UAV to a cloud environment, where data can be
processed in a short (near real-time) period of time and re-transmitted back to the UAV. This project aims studying the research
opportunities in coupling of UAVs with Cloud Infrastructure with applications in surveillance.
As part of the project so far two conference publications have been made:
Basit Qureshi, Anis Koubaa et.al., "Performance of a Low Cost
Hadoop Cluster for Image Analysis in Cloud Robotics
Environment", in 4rth Symposium on Data Mining Applications
(SDMA2016), Riyadh, 30 March, 2016.
Basit Qureshi, Anis Koubaa et.al., "Dronemap - A Cloud-based
Architecture for the Internet-of-Drones", in 13th International
Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks
(EWSN 2016), Graz, Austria, February 15-17, 2016.
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MEGDAM Team Publications 2015-2016
Following presents, a list of publications made by the MEGDAM team during the year 2015-2016.
Conference Proceedings, 1
Indexed Journals, 8
International Conferences, 15
Book Chapters, 2
Posters, 4
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Peer Reviewed Journal Papers / Book Chapters / Conference Proceedings
1. Basit Qureshi, Abdul Aziz Al Sehibani, Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Data Mining Applications (SDMA2016), Riyadh, March 30, 2016.
2. Rihab Chaaria, Fatma Ellouzeb, Anis Koubˆaa, Basit Qureshi, Habib Youssefe, Eduardo Tovarf, "Cyber-Physical Systems Clouds: A Survey", The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, To appear 2016. (Impact Factor: 1.25).
3. Mamdouh Alenezi and Mohammad Zarour: "Does Software Structures Quality Improve over Software Evolution? Evidences from Open-Source Projects." International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS) Vol.14, No.1 (2016),
pp. 61-75.
4. Mamdouh Alenezi and Ibrahim Abunadi: "Evaluating Software Metrics as Predictors of Software Vulnerabilities." International Journal of Security and Its Applications Vol.9, No.10 (2015), pp.231-240.
5. Mamdouh Alenezi and Ibrahim Abunadi: "Quality of Open Source Systems from Product Metrics Perspective." International
Journal of Computer Science Issues 12.5 (2015): 143-148.
6. Mamdouh Alenezi and Fakhry Khellah. "Evolution Impact on Architecture Stability in Open- Source Projects." International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing (IJCAC) 5.4 (2015): 24-35.
7. Shadi Banitaan and Mamdouh Alenezi: "Software Evolution via Topic Modeling: An Analytic Study." International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications Vol. 9, No. 5 (2015), pp. 43-52
8. Mamdouh Alenezi and Khaled Almustafa: "Empirical Analysis of the Complexity Evolution in Open-Source Software Systems" International Journal of Hybrid Information Technology (IJHIT), Vol.8, No.2, 2015.
9. Mamdouh Alenezi: "Extracting High-Level Concepts from Open-Source Systems." International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications Vol.9, No.1, (2015).
10. Ali Karabacak, Ozmen Gokalp Güler, Ismail Keskin, Yasir Javed, Mohammad Masood Tariq, “Fatty Acid Composition and Conjugated Linoleic Acid Content in Various Carcass Parts of Kivircik Lambs”, Pakistan Journal of Zoology, Pakistan J. Zool., vol. 48(2), pp. 383-388, 2016 (Impact Factor :0.404)
11. Anis Koubaa, Mohamed-Foued Sriti, Hachemi Bennaceur, Adel Ammar, Yasir Javed, Maram Alajlan, Nada Al-Elaiwi, Mohamed Tounsi, and Elhadi Shakshuki, “COROS: A Multi-Agent Software Architecture for Cooperative and Autonomous Service Robots” Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks (2015 Edition) Springer, Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, 2015.
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International Peer Reviewed Conference Papers
12. Basit Qureshi, Yasir Javed, Anis Koubaa, Mohamed-Foued Sriti, Maram Al-Ajlan, “Performance of a Low Cost Hadoop Cluster for Image Analysis in Cloud Robotics Environment” ", in 4th Symposium on Data Mining Applications SDMA 2016, Riyadh-Saudi Arabia March 30, 2016
13. Anis Koubaa, Basit Qureshi et.al. “Turtlebot at Office: A Service-Oriented Software Architecture for Personal Assistant Robots using ROS”, In proceedings of 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Portugal, May 4-6, 2016.
14. Sahar Trigui, Anis Koubâa, Omar Cheikhrouhou, Basit Qureshi, Habib Youssef, "A clustering market-based approach for multi-robot emergency response applications", International Conference on robotics Automation Systems and Competitions, Bragnca, Portugal, May 4-6 2016.
15. Anis Koubaa, Mohamed-Foued Sriti, Yasir Javed, Maram Alajlan, Basit Qureshi, Fatma Ellouze, Abdelrahman Mahmoud, "Turtlebot at Office: A Service-Oriented Software Architecture for Personal Assistant Robots using ROS", International Conference on robotics Automation Systems and Competitions, Bragnca, Portugal, May 4-6 2016.
16. Maha Boussabbeh, Mohamed Tounsi, Ahmed Hadj Kacem, Mohamed Mosbah, “Towards a General Framework for Ensuring and Reusing Proofs of Termination Detection in Distributed Computing”, 24th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2016, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, February 17-19, 2016
17. Anis Koubaa, Basit Qureshi et.al. “A clustering market-based approach for multi-robot emergency response application”, In proceedings of 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Portugal, May 4-6, 2016.
18. Yasir Javed, Mamdouh Al-Enezi., "Defectiveness Evolution in Open Source Software Systems", in 4th Symposium on Data Mining Applications SDMA 2016, Riyadh-Saudi Arabia March 30, 2016
19. Basit Qureshi, Anis Koubaa, Mohamed-Foued Sriti, Yasir Javed, Maram Al-Ajlan., "Dronemap - A Cloud-based Architecture for the Internet-of-Drones", in 13th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN 2016), Graz, Austria, February 15-17, 2016.
20. Yasir Javed, Adnan Shahid Khan, Basit Qureshi, Junaid Chaudhry, “Estimating Diabetic cases in KSA through search trends and Creating Cyber Diabetic Community”, International Conference on Recent Advances in Computer Systems (RACS), Hail University, Saudi Arabia, Nov 30 to Dec 1, 2015
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21. F. AlMudarra, B. Qureshi, "Issues in adopting Agile Development Principles for Mobile Cloud Computing Applications", 6th
International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies, London, United Kingdom June 2-5, 2015.
22. Saudagar, A. K. J., Mohammed, H. V., Iqbal, K., & Gyani, Y. J. (2015, January). Efficient Arabic text extraction and recognition using thinning and dataset comparison technique. In Communication, Information & Computing Technology (ICCICT), 2015 International Conference on (pp. 1-5). IEEE
23. Faten Fakhfakh, Mohamed Tounsi, Ahmed Hadj Kacem, Mohamed Mosbah, Towards a Formal Model for Dynamic Networks Through Refinement and Evolving GraphsSoftware Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing 2015 [revised selected papers from SNPD 2015, Takamatsu, Japan, June 1-3, 2015.
24. Ibrahim Abunadi and Mamdouh Alenezi: “Towards Cross Project Vulnerability Prediction in Open Source Web Applications.” International Conference on Engineering & MIS 2015 (ICEMIS’15), Istanbul, Turkey.
25. Mamdouh Alenezi and Mohammad Zarour: “Modularity Measurement and Evolution in Object-Oriented Open-Source
Projects.” International Conference on Engineering & MIS 2015 (ICEMIS’15), Istanbul, Turkey.
26. Mamdouh Alenezi and Fakhry Khellah: “Architectural Stability Evolution in Open-Source Systems.” International Conference on Engineering & MIS 2015 (ICEMIS’15), Istanbul, Turkey.
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Short Papers / Forum / Posters
27. Yasir Javed, “Improving Resident Engagement using Cloud based architecture for Smart cities”, 3rd Computer and Information Science Research Forum, CCIS-PSU, Riyadh, KSA. November 9, 2015.
28. Yasir Javed, “Ebola Mining Model”, The Second Bioinformatics Scientific Meeting in KSU (BioSM-KSU),King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA. May 4-5, 2015.
29. Yasir Javed, “Finding Scale of Ebola Virus using Data Mining techniques” , Second CIS Research Forum, Prince Sultan University, 22-23rd February 2015.
30. Yasir Javed, “Virtualization of Academic Server Using VMWare EXSI”, Second CIS Research Forum, Prince Sultan University, 22-23rd February 2015.
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Review of MEGDAM Funding bylaws
In order to reduce redundancy as well as improve opportunities for quality research, for Faculty at Prince Sultan University,
MEGDAM initiated the process for updating the funding bylaws of the center. The vision of the new Strategic Plan would focus on
acquiring funds from research funding bodies external to the University including Government agencies, commercial and
industrialization organizations as well as King Abdul Aziz City of Science and Technology. In addition to these opportunities,
MEGDAM has developed a professional Training program that would allow CCIS Faculty members as well as field experts to engage
in providing professional trainings to employees of various organization. This would be arranged in collaboration with the
Community Center at PSU. The purpose of these modifications is to allow the center to generate income and move towards self-
sustainability.
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Symposium on Data Mining Applications (SDMA 2016)
About the Symposium
Prince Megrin Data Mining Centre funds and supports research in Data Mining within Prince Sultan University to research areas
within Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Symposium on Data Mining application 2016 provides a unique platform for researchers in
industry and academics in Saudi Arabia and Middle East countries to contribute, collaborate and produce the latest research in
Data mining applications for regional and global issues. In the absence of any research event allowing students, researchers,
practitioners and industry experts to converge in order to discuss, deliberate and work-out possible solutions to regional and local
challenges, SDMA 2016 offers the exceptional opportunity to the community. SDMA 2016 addresses the topics of interest related
to Data Mining and its applications through both, invited and contributed talks, describing, research ideas, new challenges, mature
research and practical results. The program of the symposium includes invited speaker talks, presentations of papers by
contributing authors and a forum for graduate students to present their research work.
The symposium is hosted every two years. Past symposia were held in 2010, 2012 and 2014 respectively.
The first two symposiums featured only invited talks.
The third event (SDMA2014) featured invited speakers as well as contributions of research posters from graduate students. Total
number of submissions for this event were 31 posters out of which 12 were accepted for presentation (38.7% acceptance rate).
SDMA 2014 (May 2014) website could be found at: www.psu.edu.sa/megdam/sdma
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About SDMA2016
The 4rth SDMA was held on March 30, 2016 at Prince Sultan University. The preparations for the symposium started six months
prior to the scheduled date. Dr. Jarallah Al Ghamdi, Dean CCIS and Dr. Basit Qureshi, Director Prince Megrin Data Mining Centre
took the initiative to formally request Prince Sultan University to host the symposium in September 2015.
To maintain quality, all submitted papers would undergo a blind peer review process with at least two reviews for each paper to
determine the originality, novelty and quality of contributions prior to acceptance for publication in symposium proceedings.
The symposium invited original research contributions related to five tracks:
1. Data Mining Applications: Applications of data mining in domains including Parallel and advanced Databases, Social
Networks, Web, Bioinformatics, Finance, Healthcare, and Security.
2. Data Mining Foundations and Algorithms: Data Mining and Machine Learning Foundations, algorithms, models, and theory.
3. Text Mining: Semantic Analysis and Mining text in Arabic, semi-structured, spatio-temporal, streaming, graph, web,
multimedia data.
4. Frameworks: Data mining frameworks, platforms and systems implementation
5. Visualizations: Data visualization, modelling and recommendation
The event was designed to provide academia, industry, government bodies and private sector organizations with a forum to
collaborate and further data mining related research.
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Symposium chairs and Technical Program Committee
Dr. Basit Qureshi and Dr. AbdulAziz Al
Sehibani were appointed symposium
chairs to steer the Program. Using Easy-
chair as conference management system,
the chairs requested more than 55
leading researchers and academics from
around the world to be on the Technical
Program Committee. Having a top quality
program committee guarantees good
quality reviews for submissions
contributing to a good quality program
and event. 27 leading experts agreed to
join the program committee.
SDMA2016 Delegates
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Name Affiliation Country
AbdulKarim Doufene Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA
Afraz Syed Prince Sultan University Saudi Arabia
Ahmed Sameh Prince Sultan University Saudi Arabia
Alexander Gelbukh Instituto Politécnico Nacional Mexico
Arif Bramantoro Imam University Saudi Arabia
Bandar Al Haqbani King Saud Bin AbdulAziz University Saudi Arabia
Fatos Xhafa Technical University of Catalonia Spain
Fikret Gurgen BoGhazi Univesrity Turkey
Francesco Folino ICAR-CNR Italy
Husni Al Muhtaseb King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Saudi Arabia
Ingrid Fischer University of Konstanz Germany
Liaqathunisa Syed Prince Sultan University Saudi Arabia
Mamdouh Al Enezi Prince Sultan University Saudi Arabia
Mohamed Tounsi Prince Sultan University Saudi Arabia
Mohammad Al Effendi Prince Sultan University Saudi Arabia
Muazzam Siddiqui King AbdulAziz University Saudi Arabia
Muhammad Badruddin Khan Imam University Saudi Arabia
Muna Al-Razgan King Saud University Saudi Arabia Nur Shahriza Prince Sultan University Saudi Arabia Panos Kalnis King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia Pedro Henriques Abreu FCTUC-DEI/CISUC Portugal
Rauf Baig Imam University Saudi Arabia
Sabri Mahmoud King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Saudi Arabia
Sahar Ismail Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University Saudi Arabia
Tanzila Saba Prince Sultan University Saudi Arabia
Yacine Rebahi Fraunhofer Fokus Germany
Zahid Akther University of Udine Italy
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Apart from the listed Technical program committee the following 13 researchers and academics participated in reviewing some
of the submissions:
Name Affiliation Country
Amin Allam King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia
Anis Koubaa Prince Sultan University Saudi Arabia
Fakhry Khellah Prince Sultan University Saudi Arabia
Fazal-E- Amin King Saud University Saudi Arabia
Ibrahim Abdelaziz King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia
Khalid Alemerien North Dakota State University USA
Mohammad Zarour Prince Sultan University Saudi Arabia
Muhammad Ali Ismail NED University of Engineering and Technology Pakistan
Nuno Pereira CISTER, ISEP Portugal
Raed Seetan North Dakota State University USA
Sofianiza Abd Malik Prince Sultan University Saudi Arabia
Thavavel Murugesan Prince Sultan University Saudi Arabia
Zuhair Khayyat King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia
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Publication of Proceedings
In November 2015, the SDMA2016 Chairs applied for the Proceedings to be published by Elsevier in Procedia CS Series. The
Procedia is an Open Access Journal that publishes research proceedings for quality conferences held around the world. Since
Procedia CS is indexed in SCOPUS, all subsequent publications in the proceedings would also be indexed and published in
www.sciencedirect.com. Any proposals for publications need to be evaluated based on suitability of scope and quality criteria,
including the assurance that all papers are original, and are subject to peer review before acceptance and have not been not be
published elsewhere.
Dr. Basit Qureshi applied for Elsevier Procedia CS, got acceptance from the Editors of the Procedia, in December 2015. Dr. Jarallah
Al Ghamdi signed the contract between Prince Sultan University and Elsevier.
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Keynote Speaker
SDMA Chairs in collaboration with ACM Chapter at Prince Sultan University contacted various ACM Distinguished program speakers
to present a Keynote talk at SDMA2016. Dr. Peter Aiken from Virginia Common Wealth University agreed to participate and give
the Keynote talk. ACM Liaisons Dr. Liyakathunisa Syed and Dr. Anis Koubaa from CCIS contacted the Keynote speaker and stayed
in touch with him.
Peter Aiken is acknowledged to be a top data management (DM) authority. As a practicing data
consultant, author and researcher, he has been actively performing and studying DM for more
than 30 years. His expertise has been sought by some of the world's most important
organizations and his achievements have been recognized internationally. He has held
leadership positions and consulted with more than 75 organizations in 21 countries across
numerous industries, including defense, banking, healthcare, telecommunications and
manufacturing.
He is a sought-after keynote speaker and author of multiple publications, including his latest
the "Case for the CDO" & "Monetizing Data Management" and he hosts the longest running
and most successful webinar dedicated to data management (hosted by Dataversity.net).
Peter is the Founding Director of Data Blueprint, a consulting firm that helps organizations
leverage data for competitive advantage and operational efficiencies. He is also Associate
Professor of Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and past
President of the International Data Management Association (DAMA-I).
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Sponsors
Oracle, a world leader in Data Solutions, sponsored the
SDMA2016. Prince Sultan University with Community Services
signed an agreement for Oracle sponsorship. As part of the
sponsorship, Oracle’s logo appears in all SDMA2016
publications as well as the website.
SDMA2016 requested Oracle to arrange for a technical talk
from the sponsors. Mr. Dany Francis, Chief Data Lead from
Oracle in Saudi Arabia presented an exciting talk on Data
Governance at the event.
Mr. Dany Francis, Chief Data Lead – Oracle at SDMA2016
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SDMA Organization Committees
The Organizing Committees and team consist of the following esteemed colleagues at Prince Sultan University.
Committee NAME AFFILIATION
Honorary chair Jarallah Al Ghamdi Prince Sultan University
Co-Chairs Basit Qureshi Prince Megrin Data Mining Center
Abdul Aziz Al Sehibani Prince Sultan University
Session Chairs
Ahmed Sameh Prince Sultan University
Mamdouh Al Enezi Prince Sultan University
Tanzila Saba Prince Sultan University
Basit Qureshi Prince Sultan University
Sharifa Al Ghowinem Prince Sultan University
ACM Liaison Anis Koubaa Prince Sultan University
Liaqathunisa Syed Prince Sultan University
Local Arrangements
chairs
Sarab Al-Muhaideb Prince Sultan University
Yasir Javed Prince Megrin Data Mining Center
Web Manager Ahmad Al-Maiman Prince Megrin Data Mining Center
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Submissions, Review process and acceptance:
January 15, 2016 was set to be the extended deadline for submission of papers.
A total of 54 submissions were made to SDMA2016.
Out of these 42 were full papers while the rest of 12 were poster/ short papers.
The program committee reviewed all papers with each paper/poster receiving at least two reviews.
Most of the papers were reviewed by 3-5 reviewers.
After the review process was complete, authors were notified on February 15 about the decision on their submission.
Dr. Basit Qureshi used a special licence for Easychair to manage the conference.
Following graphics show some facts about the submitted papers.
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Imam University, 4
King Saud University, 11
Prince Sultan University, 10
King Faisal University, 1
KFUPM, 1
Princess Noura, 7
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Imam University King Saud University Prince Sultan University
King Faisal University KFUPM Princess Noura
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After the review process was completed, based on the recommendations from the technical program committee, considering the suitability
to symposium areas, originality of ideas and quality of contributions a total of 14 papers and 6 short papers/posters were accepted for
publication in the proceedings of the Symposium.
The Accepted Papers and short papers/Posters with their author’s names and titles are listed below.
Full Papers 01 DTW-Global Constraint Learning using Tabu search algorithm
Bilel Ben Ali, Youssef Masmoudi and Souhail Dhouib.
02 Fuzzy-Genetic Model for the Identification of Falls Risk Gait Md. Radiul Hassan, Samer Arafat and Rezaul Begg
03 Performance Comparison of Spark Clusters Configured on Virtual Machines and as a Cloud Service
Hameeza Ahmed, Muhammad Ali Ismail, Muhammad Faraz Hyder, Muhammad Sheraz and Nida Fouq.
04 Naïve Multi-label classification of YouTube comments using comparative opinion Asad Khan, Madiha Khan and Mohammd Badruddin Khan
05 A novel Brain Computer Interface Based on Principle Component Analysis Farid Ali, Reda Abdel Wahab and Mahmoud Shoman
06 Big Data Analytics for Behaviour Monitoring of Students Abdul Rauf Baig and Hajira Jabeen
07 Protecting online social networks profiles by hiding sensitive data attributes Waleed Ead, Hatem Mohamed and Emad Elabd
08 Performance of a Low Cost Hadoop Cluster for Image Analysis in Cloud Robotics Environment B Qureshi, Y Javed, A. Koubaa, M. Sriti and M. Alajlan
09 Defectiveness Evolution in Open Source Software Systems Yasir Javed and Mamdouh Alenezi
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10 Predicting Students’ Performance in University Courses: A Case Study and Tool in KSU Mathematics Department
Ghada Badr, Afnan Algobail, Hanadi Almutairi and Manal Almutery.
11 Online Social Games and Social Networking Sites Linah Aburahmah, Hajar Alrawi, Yamamah Izz and Liyakathunisa Syed.
12 An Individualized Preprocessing for Medical Data Classification
Sarab Almuhaideb and Mohamed El Bachir Menai
13 Finding Similar Documents using Different Clustering Techniques Sumayia J. Al-Anazi, Hind S. Al-Mahmoud and Isra Al-Turaiki
14 Predicting Critical Courses Affecting Students Performance: A Case Study Yasmeen Altujjar, Wejdan Altamimi, Isra Al-Turaiki and Muna Al-Razgan.
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Short Paper / Poster
01 Readability of Arabic Medicine Information Leaflets: A Machine Learning Approach
Sihaam Alotaibi and Maha Alyahya
02 The Evolution of Job Markets in Cities, A Network Science Approach Ahmad Alabdulkareem, Lijun Sun, Iyad Rahwan and Cesar Hidalgo
03 Towards a disease outbreak notification framework using twitter mining for smart home dashboards Ali Almazidy, Hussain Althani and Misbhauddin Mohammed.
04 Exploring the Food Pairing Hypothesis in Arab Cuisine: A Study in Computational Gastronomy Shahad Talal and Muna Alrazgan.
05 TibbOnTo: Knowledge Representation of Prophet Medicine (Tibb Al-Nabawi) Asma Al-Rumkhani, Muna Al-Razgan and Auhood Al-Faris
06 Pre-University Exams Effect on Student’s GPA: A case Study in IT Department
Sarah Mohamed and Muna Al-Razgan
07 Performance Analysis of Data Mining Classification Techniques to Predict Diabetes Sajida Perveena, Muhammad Shahbaz, Aziz Guergachi, Karim Keshavjee
The following shows some statistics about the accepted papers
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Saudi Arabia, 14
Romania, 1
Egypt, 1
Tunisia, 1
Pakistan, 1
Canada -Pakistan, 1 USA, 1
Accepted papers from countries of origin
Imam University, 2
King Saud University, 6
Prince Sultan University, 4
King Faisal University, 1
KFUPM, 1
Accepted papers origin in Saudi Universities
37%
63%
Acceptance Rate
Accepted Rejected
Full papers, 14
Short papers, 6
Number of Acceped Papers
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SDMA2016 Program and Organization
On March 30, 2016, under the patronage of Dr. Ahmed
Yamani, Rector Prince Sultan University, the program started
at 8.45. On behalf of Dr. Ahmed Yamani, Dr. Jarallah Al
Ghamdi started the proceeds of the event with a brief
opening speech welcoming guests of honor Dr. Saad
AlRwaita, Vice Rector for Financial Affairs, Dr. Abdul Hafeez
Feda, Vice Rector for Academics and Research, Keynote
speaker, all the authors, guests and participants.
The program was divided into multiple sessions with 4-5
paper presentations in each session. Two of the sessions
were organized in parallel. Dr. Ahmed Sameh, Dr. Mamdouh
AlEnezi, Dr. Tanzila Saba were appointed session chairs at
the event. They all managed the sessions diligently and
professionally.
Dr. Basit Qureshi and Dr. Sharifa Al Ghowainem were the
Poster “Madness” session chairs. In madness session, each
poster author was invited on the stage to give a talk for 3
minutes only. The purpose of the talk is to attract audience
to the hardboard poster for discussion and further
collaboration. Two male and four female authors presented
their posters.
SDMA2016 Opening speech by Dr. Jarallah Al Ghamdi
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The program was carefully designed to accommodate the separation of male and female attendees on both campuses with all
presentation live streamed to both campuses during keynote session as well as other parallel sessions. The ITCS staff in the
leadership of Mr. Vaseem Jawed, Mr. Michael Batangan and Mr. Anas Razak handled technical issues diligently.
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SDMA Local arrangements chairs Mr. Yasir Javed and Dr. Sarab alMuhaideb managed carefully volunteer students, catering
services, technical issues, registration desk and participants throughout the event. They designed, printed and distributed
certificates of participation for authors, students and all participants. They also coordinated with the catering services for
arranging lunch and snacks during the breaks.
Mr. Ahmad Al Maiman designed all SDMA2016 related materials including SDMA2016 posters, Rollups, Popups, certificates etc. He
was also the web designer and web manager for the SDMA website throughout the event. In collaboration with Mr. Yasir, more
than 3,000 emails were sent to various mailing lists established at MEGDAM for dissipation of Call for Papers/ Posters, invitations
for attendance and participation.
Volunteer students from CCIS were a great help,
and the SDMA2016 organizers thankfully
appreciate student’s efforts in making this event
successful.
Authors explaining their Research Poster at SDMA2016
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Some facts about SDMA2016 participants:
A total of 246 Participants registered and attended SDMA2016 on March 30, 2016 at Prince Sultan University during various
sessions. The following graphics show some information about attendees, their affiliations etc.
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MEGDAM and CCIS faculty members managed to build connections and ties with participants from academia, government agencies
and local organizations which Inshallah would culminate in future research endeavors.
SEU, 8
KFUPM, 2
Pakistan, 1
MIT, 1
PSU, 125
Independent, 15
ELM, 2
KSU, 37
MOI, 1
KACST, 9
ImamU, 7
STC, 7
DU, 4PNU, 1
MU, 2
NU, 2
FBSU, 1
KFU, 14
MOH, 1
Egypt, 2Oracle
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Number of Participants with affiliations
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Appreciation and Thanks:
The SDMA 2016 Chairs would like to thank and congratulate SDMA2016 team on organizing a successful Symposium on Data
Mining Applications. The wonderful support, dedication and enthusiasm of the SDMA2016 team was key to the success of the
event.
The SDMA2016 organizing team would like to thank
SDMA2016 Guests
Dr. Peter Aiken, Distinguished ACM Speaker delivered the Keynote address.
Mr. Dany Francis, Oracle Data Scientist delivered the sponsors speech.
The team would like to extend their appreciation for supervision and support of
The Prince Sultan University Leadership
Dr. Ahmad Yamani, Rector Prince Sultan University
Dr. AbdulHafeez Feda, Vice-Rector Research and Academics, Prince Sultan University
Dr. Saad AlRwaita, Vice-Rector Finance and Administration, Prince Sultan University
Dr. Musaed AlMuqbil, Dean Research and Higher Studies, Prince Sultan University
SDMA2016 Chairs:
Dr. Jarallah AlGhamdi, Dean College of Computer and Information Science, Prince Sultan University Dr. AbdulAziz AlSehibani, Dean Admissions and Registration, Prince Sultan University Dr. Basit Qureshi, Director, Prince Megrin Data Mining Center
ACM PSU Chapter:
Dr. Anis Koubaa Dr. Liaqathunisa Syed
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SDMA2016 Session chairs:
Dr. Ahmed Sameh Dr. Mamdouh AlEnezi Dr. Tanzila Saba Dr. Sharifa AlGwainem
SDMA2016 Organizing Committee members:
Mr. Yasir Javed Dr. Sarab AlMuhaideb Mr. Ahmad Al Maiman
Technical Support:
Mr. Vaseem Jawed
Mr. Michael Batangan
Mr. Anas Razaq
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Volunteer Students:
Anas Abdel Halim Anas Kanouch Mohammad Bahjat Ala Ezzeddin Khalid al Qahtani Omar Maksusa Mohammad Abdul Ghani
Hamza AlDhukaishi Nouf Hamed Abdullah Alsharif Alshaikh Muhammad Ahad Sarah Ali Aldhalaan
Lubna Al-Deen Khalil Altayeb Afnan Null Alhaddab Nada Mohammed Alnotaifi Alaa Abdoullah Al-Zahrani
Publicity:
University Spectrum Magazine
SDMA2016 Delegates
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Cost of the Symposium
The 4th Symposium on Data Mining Applications cost Prince Sultan University in the amount of 43,049.50 Saudi Riyals. The
following presents distribution of costs in terms of total expenses for various activities as part of SDMA.
No Item Cost (Riyals)
1 Publication of Proceedings in Elsevier Procedia CS 21,787.50
2 Print Materials, Posters etc 10,500.00
3 Conference Lunch and Snacks etc 25,262.00
4 Hotel Stay for Keynote Speaker 1,500.00
Total Expenses Only 59,499.50
The Symposium also received Sponsorship from Oracle in the amount of 16,000.00 SR for organizing the event.
Item Cost (Riyals)
Expenses 59,499.50
Income from Sponsors 16,000.00
Total Cost 43,049.50
MEGDAM is indebted for the support and efforts on volunteer basis from the honorary chairs, co-chairs, TPC members, organizing
committee and students in executing the SDMA2016 plan with due diligence and organization of a high quality research event at
Prince Sultan University
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Summary
Compared to previous SDMAs, SDMA2016 was a bigger and a better event with enhanced quality, International audience and a
globally accessible SCOPUS indexed research proceedings. The number of participants for technical session was encouraging for
a technical event with a narrow audience. The proceedings would be online on May 15, 2016.
We hope that SDMA2016 would improve PSU’s research profile in the Kingdom and that we are proud of Prince Megrin Data Mining
Center’s leadership and contribution in doing so.
We look forward to organize SDMA2018 under the sponsorship and patronage of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) USA.
Dr. Abdulafeez Feda, Vice-Rector of academic and research affairs hands
Dr. Peter Aiken an award for his Keynote speech
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RTC CCIS Forum
The 3rd Computer & Information Sciences Research Forum was held in Prince Sultan University on Monday, November 9, 2015.
Every year the forum is organized once for the College of Computer and Information Sciences to highlight the research of the
faculty members. The purpose of the forum is to allow faculty members as well as students to participate, collaborate and further
their research.
MEGDAM Team as well as MEGDAM Executive committee Members provided a strong response to the call for the Forum. Four
technical and non technical talks were presented in the forum. The following lists the presentation at the CCIS Forum.
Prof. Ahmed Sameh Ontology Engineering for knowledge sharing
Dr. Mohammed Tounsi On the clustering algorithms: Distances and more
Dr. Basit Qureshi MEGDAM Activities and Achievements
Yasir Javed Improving Resident Engagement using Cloud based architecture for Smart cities
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RTC Research Exhibition Women Campus
On March 28, 2016, RTC organized Exhibition for Research Centers around the country at Prince Sultan University Women Campus.
Notable appearances in the exhibition were KACST, KSU, etc along with 19 other research centers and institutes. MEGDAM Team
participated and presented the areas and opportunities for research provided by the center.
The Center would like to thank the following colleagues on the both campuses for organization and managing MEGDAM booth.
Dr. Dina Dakhs
Mr. Ahmad Al Maiman
Dr. Liyakathunisa Syed
Dr. Iman Al Momani
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Seminars, Research Talks and Presentations
In line with MEDAM action plan, the team arranged for six technical talks to be given at Prince Sultan University campus during
this academic year. Following presents details about the presenters, Title and abstract of the talk.
Seminar
Presenter Dr. Mamdouh Al Enezi
Title Applying for Research Grants: A KACST project case study
Date October 2015.
Abstract This talk provides opportunities to PSU Faculty members in gaining understanding of KACST funding opportunities. The presenter will focus on his experience with applying for KACST
Grant, the process, requirements, expectations, review process and further details.
Seminar
Presenter Dr. Basit Qureshi
Title On Collaboration with MEGDAM: Activities and Opportunities
Date October 2015.
Abstract
Prince Megrin Data Mining Center was established in 2010 with initial funding grant from HRH Prince Muqrin bin AbdulAziz AlSaud. This talk will focus on introduction to MEGDAM mission, vision, objectives, highlighting the achievements and activities over the past few years. The presenter would discuss centers offering to CCIS faculty and PSU community at large and possible collaboration for advancing research in Data Mining and related areas.
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RTC Forum
Presenter Mr. Yasir Javed
Title Improving Resident Engagement using Cloud based architecture for Smart cities
Date 9, November 2015.
Abstract
Current advances in technologies, advent of cloud computing, 5G networks have provided an
opportunity to improve city management. Sensors, surveillance cameras, mobile devices, smart cars, ATM’s and every communication device, providing information like traffic condition, road condition, accidents, items purchased, shopping details, energy consumed, utilization of land etc. Data that is received, can be structured or mostly unstructured
constituting a complex Big Data from which a smart city can take benefit by using data analytics for improving city control and management. Recent studies shows the work conducted to collect data from sensors and storing on cloud. I will present SCiM, a Smart Cities Management framework that will take the data analytics to next level edge for smart cities. I will address requirements of SCiM platform by discussing important use cases in smart city management and how resident engagement can make it a complete productive system.
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1st MEGDAM
Convention
Presenter Dr. Liyakathunisa Syed
Title Innovations on Tele-Health and Tele-Mammography through IoT
Date 4, February 2016.
Abstract
Many Tele Health applications as well as framework have been developed and are currently in use in various hospital and by health care providers. With the advancement of communication technologies, it is possible to develop cloud based framework integrating many healthcare devices realizing the Internet of Things (IoT). This talk provides details about the current research and state of the art in the area.
1st
MEGDAM Convention
Presenter Mr. Mohammad Al Shahrani
Title Research Opportunities in Stock Market: The case of twitter and Tadawul
Date 4 February 2016.
Abstract
Mohammad Al Shahrani is the CEO of SmartDatta, A young startup based in China. Mohammad is pursuing research in the impact of Social Networks in particular Twitter on the Stock Market. He will talk about Forecasting Stocks Market index based on Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Feed.
SDMA2016 KeyNote
Presenter Dr. Peter Aiken
Title Thinking differently about data, data careers, and data research in the post big data era
Date 30 March 2016.
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Abstract
It is a good time to pause and reflect on three items that current research indicates are still
problematic for most organizations. First, is the growing understanding that data as an asset has certain characteristics that argue for better treatment? Second, the way in which data is taught should be reconsidered. Teaching future researchers and business leaders that data is solely a technical skill leads to directly to its poor treatment within
organizations. Third data research would benefit from a more socio-technical focus. Applying these in concert will help organizations to recognize that we need to think differently about our organization's sole non-depletable, non-degrading, durable strategic asset.
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Student Supervision
MEGDAM provides Student Research project supervision to PSU graduate as well as undergraduate students.
Graduate Thesis Supervision
Currently various Master of Software Engineering (MSE) Students enrolled in Research Thesis are being supervised by
● Dr. Ahmed Sameh
● Dr. Mohamed Tounsi
● Dr. Mohammad Al Effendi
● Dr. Mamdouh Al Enezi
Previously MSE Student Mr. Fahad Al Mudarra successfully completed defense of his Master thesis titled “Exploring Software
Engineering Approaches to Developing Mobile Applications in Cloud Computing Environments”. He was supervised by Dr. Basit
Qureshi.
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Undergraduate Research / Project Supervision
Various COOP Students at CCIS are supervised by MEGDAM team. This year, two students underwent training at MEGDAM.
Following presents brief details about their work:
Hamza AlDhkaishi worked under supervision of Dr Mohammad Al Effendi on building Arabic corpus for special Arabic letters and
their parsers. Mr. Yasir Javed and MEGDAM center helped him write programs, training for required programming skills and
analytical skills.
Shahroze Mirza co-supervised by Dr. Basit Qureshi and Dr. Mohammad Al Effendi completed this COOP Report at MEGDAM. He
worked on Software Development Processes Training completing assignments for CMM PSP as well as TSP.
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Funded Research Project Supervision
Currently two research projects are in progress at MEGDAM. These projects involve undergraduate students for various tasks that
require supervision. MEGDAM Team oversees the training and supervision of these students.
Currently 4 undergraduate students are being trained by Mr Yasir Javed on the STC project R4P. The tasks are as follows
1 Web Development Training 4 Data Mining Tools such as R Training.
2 Building Interactive Solutions Training 5 BI Solutions
3 Building web services Training 6 Web based User Interfaces
Four students are currently under the payroll of the R4P Project funded by STC. These students have been involved in
Installation of tools as required by R4P team including WEKA, R, Rapid Miner and Knime.
Tagging of data consisting of 1000 records.
Convert the data into formats that are compatible with the tools. As for each tools there is different format of data, requiring
understanding of the changes for consistency.
All students were required to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement with MEGDAM.
In the Summer R4P will hire four COOP Students as programmers to develop the software required and complete their training.
These students would have an opportunity to join STC at the completion of the training.
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4. Trainings As part of MEGDAM Strategic Plan, Conducting and Organizing Trainings is a part of the action plan. The following highlights trainings
conducted during 2015-2016.
ACM MEGDAM Java Training Workshop Series
In light of suggestions from CCIS Faculty, MEGDAM collaborated with ACM chapter to provide
a Java focused training to PSU Students. The purpose of the Training Workshop series was to
extend MEGDAM’s capabilities in engaging CCIS students and PSU Student Club in improving
student’s skills that are essential to software design and development. MEGDAM kept the
tradition of arranging one Training Workshop series every year by offering “JAVA Training
Series” in November 2015.
It must be noted that these trainings are provided “Free of charge” to all students.
Four Training Tracks were offered with each training covering the fundamentals of Java
programming in those tracks. Students attending the training need to have completed all
programming courses taught at PSU including CS101 and CS102.
Following details the training sessions
Training Male Trainer Female Trainer
Multi-Threading in Java Dr. Inayat Shah Dr. Inayat Shah
Graphical User Interface Dr. Basit Qureshi Ms. Ishrat Khan
Database Programming Mr. Yasir Javed Dr.Liyakathunisa Syed
Network Programming Dr. Anis Koubaa Dr. Anis Koubaa
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MEGDAM Student Club Training
In collaboration with Student Club, MEGDAM arranges for trainings provided by Students to students under the supervision of
the center. The following trainings were made during 2015-2016.
Unity Programming Unity programming session was made by MEGDAM student club in order to train them with UNITY game development. Session was conducted by student Ali Chabban of CCIS college.
Arduino Programming
Arduino hand on programming session was conducted in coordination with ACM chapter, in which an external summer student provided a hand on programming session to the PSU students. Success of this session was that everyone asked for a next session. Moreover Dr. Anis koubaa also provided a detail and troubleshooting session for Arduino Programming.
PhP training (R4P students)
Four students were trained on PhP for STC R4P project, they were taught how to do database connectivity, building BI solution and web services. They wll use the techniques in development phase of R4P.
Cloud Network Training(R4P students)
Four students were trained in building and deploying real cloud, creating the network and tagging the network.
Visual Programming Hamza Al Dhukaishi, a CO-OP student was trained by MEGDAM center in order to program in C# for Arabic text parsing and helped him building a complete Arabic Parsing system.
Lego Robot Workshop (Dr. Anis Koubaa)
Arduino hand on programming session was conducted in coordination with ACM chapter, in which three PSU students provided a hand on programming session to the PSU students. Success of this session was that everyone asked for a next session. Moreover Dr. Anis koubaa also provided a detail and troubleshooting session for Robot Programming.
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MEGDAM CCIS Faculty Trainings
FHEA Training and Seminars
This academic year, various faculty members from CCIS engaged in Action Research as part of Fellowship of Higher Education
Academy United Kingdom. The Teaching and Learning Center at Prince Sultan University requested Dr. Basit Qureshi to present a
seminar on his Action Research that was presented to HEA UK.
In September 2015, Dr. Basit Qureshi provided a training on “Motivating CS101 Students for Programming: An Action Research”.
MEGDAM team is also involved in the current batch of trainees for HEA program.
In April 2016, Mr. Yasir Javed presented his ongoing action research on “Field Trip & Visual Content Delivery as A mode to improve
Learning, Knowledge and enhancing student engagement”.
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Training on Labview
A Short training was provided on Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering
Workbench(LabVIEW) is a system-design platform and development environment for a visual
programming language from National Instruments. Originally released for the Apple Macintosh
in 1986, LabVIEW is commonly used for data acquisition, instrument control, and industrial
automation on a variety of platforms including Microsoft Windows, various versions of UNIX,
Linux, and OS X.
As part of the Logic design lab, Mr. Yasir Javed provided a hands-on training to female faculty
members responsible for teaching the course on female campus.
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5. Consultation and Outreach
R4P STC Project
MEGDAM Team is currently involved on a research project currently conducted in collaboration with STC.
Title Repeat Rate Reduction Research Project (R4P)
Funding Source Saudi Telecom Company
(STC).
Investigators
Dr. Basit Qureshi, Dr. Mohammad Al Affendi, Dr. Mamdouh Al Enezi, Dr. Ahmed Sameh, Dr. Mohamed Tounsi
Grant 319,500 Saudi Riyals
Duration 6 months
Start Date February 2016.
Completion Date
September 2016.
MEGDAM Team meeting with STC delegation
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1st MEGDAM Convention
MEGDAM initiating Convention Series to provide a forum for Faculty, Research students and Industry representatives to
collaborate and converse on possible domains of mutual interest. The benefit of these conventions is many folds:
Faculty members can inform about their current research and future research interests.
Research Students can learn and educate community as well as conduct collaborative research work
Industry Representatives can discuss recent problems related to data mining research and collaborate with MEGDAM to find possible solutions.
The main objective of MEGDAM Conventions is to serve and improve MEGDAM’s “consultation services” leading towards future
center sustainability.
The convention's aims is to promote research among PSU Faculty members as well as open new venues for collaboration with
Industry, commercial and government organizations. We hope to initiate joint research and development projects by seeking
possible problem domains and address these to provide solutions. We plan to invite representatives and stakeholders from these
collaborators to open doors to further mutual collaboration and scientific growth.
The first convention focused on opportunities in Healthcare and Financial Markets. The program presents two short talks on the
focus areas with an open panel discussion followed by the talks.
Talk 1 Dr. Liyakathunisa Syed, A/Prof. CCIS@PSU, "Innovations in Tele-Health and Tele-Mammography through Internet-of-Things (IoT)
Talk 2 Mr. Mohammad AlShahrani, CEO SmartDatta Solutions. "Research Opportunities in Stock Market – Test Case: Tadawul
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IBM BlueMix
Bluemix™ is the latest cloud offering from IBM®. It enables organizations
and developers to quickly and easily create, deploy, and manage
applications on the cloud. Bluemix is an implementation of IBM's Open
Cloud Architecture based on Cloud Foundry, an open source Platform as a
Service (PaaS). Bluemix delivers enterprise-level services that can easily
integrate with your cloud applications without you needing to know how
to install or configure them. This article gives a high-level description of
Cloud Foundry and Bluemix and outlines the features and services that
were part of the open beta of Bluemix, which make it a compelling PaaS in
the market today.
luemix is an implementation of IBM's Open Cloud Architecture, based on
Cloud Foundry, that enables you to rapidly create, deploy, and manage
your cloud applications. Because Bluemix is based on Cloud Foundry, you
can tap into a growing ecosystem
of runtime frameworks and services. In addition to providing additional frameworks and services, Bluemix provides a dashboard for you to
create, view, and manage your applications and services as well as monitor your application's resource usage. The Bluemix dashboard also
provides the ability to manage organizations, spaces, and user access.
Bluemix provides access to a wide variety of services that can be incorporated into an application. Some of these services are delivered
through Cloud Foundry. Others are delivered from IBM and third party vendors. New and enhanced services are added to the catalog often. To
see the current list of runtimes and services, and their status go to the Bluemix catalog.
Some of the commonly used runtimes are:
Node.js Python
PHP Ruby
IBM BlueMix Workshop – organized by MEGDAM
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IEEE Extreme 9.0
IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which teams of IEEE Student members proctored by an IEEE member, and supported by an IEEE
Student Branch, compete in a 24-hour time span against each other to solve a set of programming problems. Registration for
IEEEXtreme 9.0 was closed on October 12. Six teams (two from men’s campus and four from women campus) at Prince Sultan
University participated. The competition is open to students of all levels including undergraduate, graduate and PhD students.
Teams are formed composing three students proctored by an IEEE member. This year, Dr. Basit Qureshi was the proctor for both
men’s teams; where as Dr. Iman AlMomani proctored for all women teams.
The competition started on Saturday at 3.00AM Saudi Time and went on up to the next morning at 3.00 AM. Students arrived on
campus at 2.50AM and proceeded to Prince Megrin Data Mining Center. The center organized logistics for the event including
assigning volunteer proctors etc.
PSU team “red-wolves” at IEEE Extreme 9.0
Competition
PSU team “SAT” at IEEE Extreme 9.0 Competition
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This year 1944 teams from around the world participated. The difficulty level of the competition as raised, IEEE allowed
participating organizations to contribute questions for the competition. IBM, various IEEE and ACM societies contributed questions
including questions in five categories of difficulty, easy, moderate, difficult, advanced and expert. The expert level questions were
essentially research questions often posted by IBM. Compared to last year when 24 questions were posted in a 24 hours period,
this year 28 questions were posted for the same time limit. In 2014, seven teams were able to score full points in the competition,
this year no team scored full score.
Compared to 11 teams last year, this year, 49 teams participated from Saudi Arabia including teams from public universities such
as King Saud University, King AbdulAziz University, King Fahd University and King Abdullah University among many others. Prince
Sultan University teams showed great fighting spirit until about 10 PM when they gave up due to extreme tiredness. Up until 10
PM both men’s teams were in the top 4. The competition ended in the morning with PSU teams achieving 7th and 8th positions.
Last years programming Jam competition which was organized by Prince Megrin Data Mining Center, helped hone the skills of CCIS
students. SAT team that won the previous programming jam competition, also scored the highest amongst PSU teams at IEEE
Extreme 9 competition.
PSU Teams
Team Students
SAT Saud Al Saud, Talha, Rashed , Ala Ezzidin
Red Wolves Ali Shabaan , Khalid, Ammar
DreamChasers Amjad Alammar, Latifah Alhussein
PSUGeeks Nourah Alhosain, Maram Alkendi, Dalyah Al-Jamal
PsuProgrammer Ghalia Alsuwaiyel, Malak Khalifah
PR Rahaf Haj Aissa, Sara Aljabr
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Prince Megrin Data Mining Center would like to thank
students, organizers and participants for their valuable time.
Special thanks to volunteer proctors, Dr. Ahmed Sameh, Dr.
Inayat Shah, Mr. Omar Ghalem and Mr. Yasir Javed. Also we
appreciate efforts from Dr. Mamdouh Al Enezi and Ahmed Al
Maiman for organizing the event. Special thanks to Dr. Basit
Qureshi and Dr. Iman Al Momani for proctoring the
competition and supporting the students during the
competition.
We would also like to thank Dr. Ahmad Al Yamani, Dr. Abdul
Hafeez Feda, Dr. Jarallah Al Ghamdi for strongly encouraging
student participation in the event. We congratulate our
students for their great efforts and look forward to the next
event.
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Programming Jam
About Programming Jam
Dr. Basit Qureshi founded the first programming contest with a catchy name “Programming
Jam 2.0” for both undergraduate and graduate students that are currently registered at Prince
Sultan University. The first contest was held in May 2015 successfully with 11 teams of
students registering and participating in the event. The website for the competition available
at http://www.megdam.org/jam provides details about the terms and conditions for the
competition. Qualified faculty members from both campuses design programming questions
of various categories addressing real life problems. A set of questions is generated and
posted online for students to access and provide solutions. Each team of students comprising
of three students each solves as many questions as possible within a limited time frame. The
winners of the contest would score the highest among their peers.
In the first programming jam, the winning team was awarded the prize money of 3000 Saudi
Riyals. They scored 282 points from a maximum of 400 points up for grabs.
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Programming Jam 2.0
MEGDAM co-hosted the Programming Jam 2.0 competition with the ACM Chapter at PSU. The competition followed the same rules as established in the first Programming Jam. For Jam 2.0 the
website for the event was updated and made available at http://www.megdam.org/jam MEGDAM team installed hackerrank for organizing the event this year. Hackerrank is a professional tool that allows auto-grading. This tools is popular with IEEE and hosts
the annual IEEE Extreme Competition. Faculty members at College of Computer and Info Sc. At Prince Sultan University were given special privileges for creating a team based contest for PSU students. Dr. Basit Qureshi, Director MEGDAM agreed with
Hackerrank to provide services to PSU under educational license.
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Programming Jam 2.0 was held at PSU on both campuses
on Thursday April 21, 2016. A total of 11 teams from male
and female campuses participated in the event. Following
shows the leader board of the competition.
Top teams codekittens and shamcoders both received the
prize money. All students who participated also received
certificates of participation.
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Newsletters and Reports
MEGDAM kept a good presence in the University Magazine (Taif Al Jamia). All important events were publicized with the magazine.
In addition to these, MEGDAM also published Special Newsletter for SDMA2016 as well as a Report on SDMA2016.
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6. MEGDAM Infrastructure
KACST Incubator
To facilitate externally funded research at College of Computer and Info Science (CCIS) at Prince Sultan University, MEGDAM took
the initiative for establishing a KACST incubator. The purpose of the incubator is three fold
01 Provide infrastructure for supporting KACST funded projects
02 Provide qualified staff / researchers to exploit the resources available
03 Provide CCIS faculty to convene, share research ideas and explore future collaboration leading to further research at the center.
To this end, a project titled “Dronemap” number 158-37 is currently in progress.
Further to this, two recent projects have been approved for funding by KACST and the relevant research teams involving Dr.
Mamdouh Al Enezi and Dr. Mohamed Tounsi as investigators are awaiting KACST approval to start the project.
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DroneMap Project Equipment
Funded by King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology, the dronemap
project was initiated in November 2016. Under the leadership of
Investigators Dr. Anis Koubaa as well as Dr. Basit Qureshi, and with the
support of Prince Sultan Univesrity Management, the team is established
Hadoop based clusters for research in Cloud Computing and Data
Analytics.
The small data center thus created is composed of 6 Intel i7 machines, 20
Raspberry Pi2 ARM based computers, 20 Samsung XU4 ARM based
computers interconnected in a tree network topology. All ARM based
machines were equipped with Ubuntu Linux distributions 14.4LTE or 15
MATE, Hadoop 2.6.2, HBase, and Hipi libraries for distributed processing
and data storage. The ongoing research project team intends to
investigate performance of these machines in terms of execution time,
throughput and energy consumption etc. The cluster is also equipped with
a NAS of 8TB that can be shared between cluster nodes.
The project team thanks Mr. Yasir Javed for his efforts in establishing the
clusters for the data centers as well as students Ala’a Ezziddin, Muhammad
Bahjat, Anas Kanhoush and Anas Abdulhalim.
DroneMap Equipments
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MEGADM Lobby renovation
MEGDAM since its opening was not renovated till today, when MEGADM team took the initiative to renovate MEGDAM center and
its labs with new designs and new looks. All the creative design were efforts of MEGDAM member MR. Ahmed AlMaiman.
MEGDAM Lobby
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MEGDAM DataCenter
RPi Cluster
The Raspberry Pi is a series of credit card–sized single-board
computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi
Foundation with the intent to promote the teaching of basic
computer science in schools and developing countries. The
original Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi 2 are manufactured in
several board configurations through licensed manufacturing
agreements with Newark element14 (Premier Farnell), RS
Components and Egoman. The hardware is the same across all
manufacturers.
Several generations of Raspberry Pi's have been released. The
first generation (Pi 1) was released in February 2012 in basic
model A and a higher specification model B. A+ and B+ models
were released a year later. Raspberry Pi 2 model B was released in
February 2015 and Raspberry Pi 3 model B in February 2016.
These boards are priced between US$20 and US$35. A cut down
compute model was released in April 2014 and a Pi Zero with
smaller footprint and limited IO (GPIO) capabilities released in
November 2015 for US$5.
All models feature a Broadcom system on a chip (SOC) which include an ARM compatible CPU and an on chip graphics processing unit GPU (a
VideoCore IV). CPU speed range from 700 MHz to 1.2 GHz for the Pi 3 and on board memory range from 256 MB to 1 GB RAM. Secure Digital
SD cards are used to store the operating system and program memory in either the SDHC or MicroSDHC sizes. Most boards have between one
and four USB slots, HDMI and composite video output, and a 3.5 mm phono jack for audio. Lower level output is provided by a number of GPIO
pins which support common protocols like I2C. Some models have an RJ45 Ethernet port and the Pi 3 has on board WiFi 802.11n and Bluetooth.
RPi Cluster configured for DroneMap Project
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XU 40 Cluster
XU40 is low cost low power cluster based on
Adruino ARM based architecture. XU 40 devices
are credit card sized with on board ARM
processor with 2.0GHz Clock Speed as well as 2
GB of RAM. Each Device is equipped with a high
speed eMMC Memory Card with 32 GB Storage.
Compared to RPi Cluster the XU40 Cluster is
order of magnitude faster. The cost of Each node
is 119US$.
XU 40 Cluster configured for DroneMap Project
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8TB Network Attached Storage
A bigger cloud storage is plugged in order to create a backup storage for MEGDAM cloud.
8TB Network Attached Storage
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MEGDAM Server
MEGDAM server is a shared server where MEGDAM center colleagues and researcher can share their data, ideas and files. MEGDAM
being an integral part of CCIS, also supports CCIS in hosting various files and services for CCIS faculty members on both campuses.
To this end MEGDAM server hosts:
CCIS support for shared folders
CCIS Course Portfolios
CCIS Course Reports
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MEGDAM Websites
MEGDAM also hosts the following websites:
www.megdam.org www.megdam.org/jam
www.psu.edu.sa/megdam www.megdam.org/cc
www.megdam.org/sdma www.megdam.org/trainings
www.megdam.org/jadm www.megdam.org/kacst
www.megdam.org/portfolio www.megdam.org/tlc
www.megdam.org/tlc/teachingawards
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7. Summary Prince Megrin Data Mining Center is proud of its achievements and its activities for the academic year 2015-2016. This year,
MEGDAM team has been very productive in all areas of activity including research, training and consultation. What follows,
presents achivements for each Objective as laid out in the MEGDAM Strategic Plan 2012-2017.
In addition the following summarizes the achievements of the center briefly with summary of Key Performance Indicators
presented.
Objective No 1: Raise awareness of the importance of data mining and applications in the Kingdom
4rth SDMA2016 was held by MEGDAM at PSU on March 30. The event highlights research activity of PSU on the global scale. This was achieved in collaboration with researchers, research centers, as well as well-known research institutions such as ACM. The proceedings of the symposium would be published by Elsevier and indexed in SCOPUS. The event provides an excellent opportunity for PSU faculty to collaborate. Furthermore SDMA2016 affords the university an opportunity to establish itself as a research institution.
A total of six technical talks were arranged
Four newsletters were published as well as various Spectrum Magazine articles were published
Two sets of Training workshop series were arranged with four training and two trainings respectively
The Journal was established in 2015. The editor as well as the editorial board was appointed in March 2015. The Journal is currently awaiting approval for its budget from the Vice Rectors Office.
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Objective No 2: Encourage research in development of data mining techniques, methods and applications
Faculty members associated with MEGDAM received initials funds for two research projects funded by KACST and STC worth 181,000SR and 319,500SR respectively. These projects are currently under progress. Two additional projects with funding of ~800,000SR have been approved by KACST. The investigators for these projects are awaiting funds to initiate the project. A further two projects were submitted to KACST in March 2016
Call for MEGDAM.15 projects was made in December 2015. Six research project proposals were submitted in response to the call. The screening process was completed in March 2016. The 4 accepted projects would be submitted for peer review by RTC. Under new regulations from the Deanship of Higher studies and Research (to be ratified) Research funding projects submitted to MEGDAM would be screened for quality and forwarded to RTC for further processing. MEGDAM would also recommend reviewers for the approved projects. In the future, MEGDAM would focus on External grants only.
A total of 15 Research papers published in international peer reviewed journals, conferences and workshops and book chapters by the MEGDAM Team. 3 journal and 2 conference papers have been submitted and are pending acceptance (as of April 22, 2016).
The Dronemap research project funded by KACST was initiated by the project team. MEGDAM established a KACST incubator which is going to house equipment from the project. The purpose of the incubator is to motivate CCIS faculty members to do collaborative research, present their ideas and publish with the project team. The equipment received from KACST grants would help build MEGDAM infrastructure and support future research projects.
MEGDAM hosted Programming Jam 2.0 in association with PSU ACM Chapter on April 21st 2016. The team used hackerrank.com as a tool for creating the competition on both campuses. Hackerrank has been used by professional competitions organized by IEEE and google for the past 4 years. Dr. Basit Qureshi agreed with hackerrank to provide support with teaching programming and organizing competitions.
Three MSE Students supervised by Dr. Ahmed Sameh and Dr. Mohamed Tounsi completed their thesis defense this year. A further two students are expected to finish their MSE by the end of this term. Another 7 students are currently supervised by Drs. Affendi, Sameh, Mamdouh and Basit. MEGDAM this year took initiatives in motivating and encouraging Female faculty members and graduate students. To this end, various talks on research opportunities were given as MEGDAM seminars as well as at RTC CCIS Forum to female audience.
MEGDAM appointed 5 female faculty members to be part of the SDMA2016 TPC. All of them diligently took care of their duties in reviewing research papers.
MEGDAM in cooperation with ACM chapter @PSU organized training workshops on both sides of the campus. Four CCIS faculty from male side as well as three faculty from female campus trained male and female students.
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Objective No 3: Facilitate transfer of Knowledge to Kingdom through cooperation with international specialized centers and
distinguished researchers with training and joint research collaboration
Oracle Big Data Analytics team was invited to speak at SDMA2016. They would be partially sponsoring the event as well as delivering a technical presentation on Big Data Analytics.
Dr. Peter Aiken, distinguished ACM speaker was invited to give the Keynote address at SDMA2016.
As part of SDMA2016, 27 well known researchers from around the world were invited to join the technical program committee. They helped review submissions to the symposium.
Mr. Ali Al Shahrani CEO SmartDatta was invited to give a talk as part of the MEGDAM Convention. He presented opportunities for joint collaboration with his company. Dr. Ahmed Sameh from MEGDAM is working with Mr. Ali on future possibilities of collaboration.
As part of the KACST project within the KACST Incubator, the project team developed a Hadoop Cluster made of Low cost low energy devices. These include 20 Raspberry Pi Model 2B Computers as well as 20 ORDOID XU-4 computers. This was completed as part of the Dronemap KACST project.
MEGDAM Team built three Hadoop clusters for research in comparative performance analysis of these clusters. To this end many open source tools were configured to work with the cluster including:
o Hadoop o Storm o Spark o Hive o HBase
This was completed as part of the Dronemap KACST project. A network was built to connect all cluster machines. The network was organized in a tree topology connecting four Gigabit Ethernet switches which were connected all nodes in the cluster. Furthermore, two routers connect the cluster with the PSU network as well as a static IP address that allows connectivity from the Internet.
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Objective No 4: Provide consultancy and services to commercial / industrial organizations to optimally exploit their data and
optimize operations
The R4P research project, a joint collaboration with STC was initiated in February 2016. The project is expected to complete by August 2016.
A comprehensive training programs booklet was published and distributed.
First Megdam convention was held in February 2016. The purpose of the convention was to provide CCIS faculty with support in applying for external grants as well as building industrial collaborations.
The STC-MEGDAM workshop would be held in May to coordinate with the currently running R4P project with STC.
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Objective No 5: Provide Prince Sultan University with support in educating the next generation of science and technology
professionals
Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics (BIBDA) certificate was designed and developed in corporation with CCIS
One COOP student completed his coop work at MEGDAM. One student is currently undergoing his training at MEGDAM. Four students were trained to work as part of the R4P STC project
Two undergraduate courses are currently being taught at CCIS:
o IS446 Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery o SE409-Cloud computing
A booklet was designed in line with short training programs offered by the community services center. MEGDAM offers training in two tracks
o Data & Business Intelligence o Cloud Computing
There are various short trainings offered in the program that enable trainees to seek internationally recognized certifications after completing the training offered by MEGDAM. Following reflects MEGDAM achievements against KPIs for year 2015-2016.
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Following reflects MEGDAM achievements against KPIs for year 2015-2016.
KPI# Description Numbers
A1 Number of Researchers / research affiliates with PhD 6
A2 Number of Researchers / research affiliates non-PhD 1
A3 Number of Master / PhD student thesis supervision 7
A4 Amount of budget allocation for research 0 SR
A5 Amount of Internal and External funding for projects 500,500 SR
B1 Number of ISI indexed journal publications 8
B2 Number of peer reviewed International conferences 19
B3 Number of Book chapters, books, conference proceeding, journal editorials 3
B4 Number of patents received or applied 0
B5 Number of research projects in progress or applied for 7
C1 Number of Symposia, workshops, conferences held at PSU 6
C2 Number of Training workshops given/ attended 13
C3 Number of titles in Megdam Library 115
C4 Equipment, databases and software in Megdam Labs VARIOUS
C5 Number of consultations provided 3
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