Prince Sultan University

College of Computer and Information Sciences

Annual Reports

For the academic year

1429-1430/2008-2009

– Dictum

– Statistics

– Definitions necessary for presentation

– AIM

ABOUT CCIS

Our dictum

IN THE COLLEGE

We do more before midday

than most people do all week

Our College has

– 136 Students

– 1 Secretary

– 16 Faculty members

– 9:1 Numerical Ratio of student:faculty

– 12:1 Classroom Ratio of student:faculty

5 OYP

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5 OYP 2009/2008

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IS2009/2008

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4 CS 2009/2008

4 CS 2009/2008

12 Faculty Members

2008/ 2007

12 Faculty Members

2008/ 2007

16 Faculty Members under the College

5-IS 5-OYP 6-CS

16 Faculty Members under the College

5-IS 5-OYP 6-CS

Our faculty distribution by departments

Our faculty distribution by country degree from

Our faculty distribution by rank and average age

Faculty Experience

5242 43 44

30 30 30 25

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Academic Rank

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Average Age

Graduation Age

Keywords used in presentation

– Strategy Positioning

– Tactics Plans to achieve positioning

– Aim Changes need to be made

– Objectives Actions to be taken

– Philosophy Attitude

– Timeline Schedule

Definitions of keywords• Aim: The change need to be achieved through performing

certain tasks

• Philosophy: How we excel in achieving the objectives?

• Objectives: Activities to be undertaken and services to be offered to bring the desired changes about

• Strategy: Long term direction and scope

• Tactic: A plan for achieving the strategy

• Timeline: A visualization of a sequence of events showing their temporal relationship.

AIM To improve

• Professional competence

• Professional recognition

• Professional services

• Global recognition (ABET)

Professional Competence CCIS Philosophy

• We take teaching seriously

• It is not what we teach that makes the difference

• It is what our students learn

• It is about moving students from memorization to innovation

Learning Stages

Memorize

RecognizeUtilize

Analyze

Evaluate

Innovate

Professional Competence Objectives

Short term plan

– Workshops

– Peer Evaluations

– Subscription to Professional Journals

– Membership in Educational Associations

Near future term plan

Center of Teaching Excellence

Competence: ObjectivesWorkshop titlepresenterDate

Dos and donts of TeachingDr. Eltayeb Abuelyaman20th of September 08

Teaching PhilosophyDr. Etlayeb Abuelyaman21st of September 08

Critical WritingDr. Patrick Halloran16th of February 09

Lifelong LearningDr. Mohamed Tounsi17th of February 09

Communication SkillsMr. Basit Qureshi18th of February 09

Time ManagementDr. Tarik Al-Sulimani21st of February 09

Curricula DevelopmentDr. Mohamed El-Affendi22nd of February 09

Assessing ABET Program OutcomesMr. Rahat M. Iqbal23rd of March 2009

Learning NomenclatureDr. Tarik Al-Sulimani4th of May 2009

Teaching EthicsMr. Shahzad Ghani11th of May 2009

Use of Technology in TeachingMr. Hassan Tahir Daoud18th of May 2009

ABET’s New Criterion: An overviewDr. Khalid Al-Mustafa25th of May 2009

Methods of Implementing Programs Outcome

Dr. Yasser Ibrahim1st of June 2009

Filling ABET FormsDr. Mohamed El-Affendi8th of June 2009

Professional Recognition• Faculty

– publications

– promotion

• Students– Breaking RSA– Publishing in a Journal

• The University– Excel in Computer Networking

– Sponsorship of WCCSE– Michigan and Minnesota

Professional Recognition Objectives

Short term plan

– Refereed Journals and Conferences Publications

– Membership in Editorial Boards and Conference Committees

– Membership in Professional Societies

– Presence in the Web

Near future term plan

– Intellectual Properties (Patents, Copy Rights, Trademarks, Trade-secrets, etc.)

– ABET and NCAAA Accreditations

Professional Recognition: Objectives2009

MISP. J. Halloran, "An Observation of Teaching and Evaluations across three Continents", accepted to ITI2009 Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, Croatia June 2009

CNK. Almustafa and S. Primak, “Optimization of Pilot Placement in Adaptive M-PSK Modulation in Rayleigh Fading Channel in Imperfect CSI,” Proceeding IEEE-GCC09. Kuwait City, March 2009

CNB. Qureshi, S. H. Bakri, G. Min, D. Kouvatsos, "A Content-driven data propagation protocol for Mobile Social Network in disconnected MANETs", accepted to International Conf. on wireless Information Networks and systems, italy, July 2009

CNB. Qureshi, M. Ilyas, G. Min, D. Kouvatsos, "An Adaptive Content Sharing protocol for P2P Mobile Social Networks", accepted to The Sixth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems, Canada, July 2009

AIH. Karam “Bcreative: A New Platform for Plot/Character-based   Interactive Storytelling Technology”, Saudi Computer Journal (Accepted To Appear), March 03, 2009

CNAbdul-Aziz Alsehibani “A comparison between Residues of Primes and Residues of Powers of Two as S-Box Fields.” Accepted for publication on the Saudi Computer Society Journal.

CNE. S. Abuelyaman and Abdul-Aziz Alsehibani “Encoding as a Second Layer of Security” Proceedings of the Second Saudi Information technology Symposium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March, 2009

CNM Tounsi, B Qureshi, "A Bluetooth intelligent e-healthcare system: analysis and design issues", International Journal of Mobile Communications, Inderscience publishers, Vol. 6, Nos. 6, pp. 683-695, Nov/Dec, 2008.

Recognition Objectives: cont.2008

AIH. Karam, Robust Interactive Video Game Platform from Design to Production, IEEE International Conference Visualization, London, July 9-11, 2008

AIH. Karam, An Intelligent Tutoring System for Improving Application Accessibility of Disabled Learners, , 5th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization, 2008

AIH. Karam, A New Framework for Plot-based Interactive Storytelling Generation, , 5th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization, 2008

DBM. Tounsi, H. Ismail and F. Marir, Using a Greedy-Based Approach for Solving Data Allocation Problem in a Distributed Environment, , Proceedings of International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'08), July 14-17, Las Vegas, USA, 2008

CNE.S. Abuelyman & A.S. Alsehibani, An Optimized Implementation of the S-Box using Residues of Prime Numbers, , IJCSNS International Journal of Computer Science and Network 304 Security, Vol. 8 No. 4, 2008

CNE.S. Abuelyman, Hardening of Pin Numbers of Automated Teller Machines, IJCSNS International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, Vol. 8 No. 2, p. 283, 2008

CNE.S. Abuelyman, Making a Smart Campus in Saudi Arabia, Journal of Educause Quarterly, April 2008

DBE.S. Abuelyaman, An Optimized Scheme for Vertical Partitioning of a Distributed Database, IJCSNS International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, Vol. 8 No. 1, January 2008

Recognition Objectives: cont.AIH. Karam, Robust Interactive Storytelling Framework for Automatic TV ContentStory production,

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, LNCS 5309, pp. 134-148, 2008

MISS. Subramoniam, S.K. Ghani and K.V. Krishnankutty, A Fuzzy Logic Approach to Modeling Uncertainty in Static Inventory Problems , under Risk, Saudi Computer Journal, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2008

AIM. Tounsi, An Overview of ILOG Optimization Suite, Journal of Applied Computer Informatics, Vol. 6 (2), 2008

AIM. Tounsi, Towards a General Model for Local Search Technique, Journal of Applied Computer Informatics, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2008

AIM. Tounsi and S. Ouis A Minimal Nogood Computation for Optimization Problems, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Vol.1, No. 1, 2008

MISM. Tounsi, S. Subramoniam and K.V. Krishnankutty, The Role of BPR in the Implementation of ERP Systems, International Journal of Business Process Management, 2008

AIM. Tounsi, S. Subramoniam and K.V. Krishnankutty, The Development of an Intelligent Agent Prototype for Mutual Fund Investment, International Journal of Electronic Finance, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp.300–313, 2008

AIM. Tounsi and S. Ouis, An Iterative Local-Search Framework for Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problem, International Journal of Applied Soft Computing, Vol.8, No. 4, pp. 1530-1535, 2008

AISamir Ouis and Mohamed Tounsi: An explanation-based tools for debugging constraint satisfaction problems, in Applied Soft Computing Volume 8, Issue 4, Elsevier, Sep. 2008, Pages 1400-1406

AIMohamed Tounsi: An intelligent Bank Assessment System: A Preliminary Study, in 19h National Conference on Computing, November 2008. Riyadh, KSA

CNAlmustafa K, Primak S, Willink T and Baddour K, “On Achievable Data Rates and Optimal Power Allocation in Fading Channels with Imperfect Channel State Information,” Wireless Personal Communication Journal, 2008.

Faculty Promotion

1428-14292007-2008

1429-14302008-2008

Two promotions pending, one is being prepared

Professional Services: Objectives– Serve the Department, College, University, and the

Community

– Retrain unemployed college graduates in the Kingdom

– Participate in Summer Programs for Talented Kids

– Referee research proposals and journals articles

– Establish and/or participate in conferences, symposiums, and workshops

– Contributions to press and media programs

Professional Services Provides

– Advisor to the College Dr. Alsehibani

– Graduate Program Coordinator Dr. El-Affendi

– Strategic Planning Officer Dr. Al-Sulimani

– Extra Curricula Activities Coordinator Mr. Daoud

– Publishing and library liaison Mr. Ghani

– Seminar-in-Charge Dr. Higgo

Professional Services Providers cont.

ABET Accreditation Coordinator Mr. Iqbal

NCAAA Accreditation Coordinator Mr. Ghalem

Laboratory and Classroom Coordinator Mr. Ismail

New Degree Investigator Dr. Halloran

Coop and Class Scheduling Coordinator Dr. Khellah

Research Colloquium Coordinator Dr. Tounsi

Professional Services Providers cont.

• Activities follow-up Officer Mr. Qureshi

• Student Programs Coordinator Dr. Al-Mustafa

Community Services involvement

• Should be of significant return to recipients

• Should be of tangible benefit to PSU

• Should give priority to serves that help the strategic planning of the Kingdom

• Should not adversely affect performance of the faculty involved

Major Community Courses Program

• NetVersity Drs. (Se. Aff, Abu) CISCO labs

• Mawhiba Dr. Al-Mustafa Unified Comm Sys. labs

• CISCO-Versity Dr. EL-Affendi CISCO labs

• Royal Guards Dr. Khellah Honor

• ICDL Dr. Abuelyaman Train the trainers

CCIS GIFT TO PSU

• OVER A MILLION SAUDI RIYALS IN BLEEDING EDGE TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT

• Students will be trained in real world environment

• Faculty will take considerable hands-on experience to classrooms

THANKS