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Hassan Abdalla

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  • PhD, 2008, London Metropolitan University 

  • Distributed Databases, Information retrieval, Information Systems, Machine Learning and E-learning.

  • Associate Professor, Zayed University, Aug. 2018 – Present 

  • Associate Professor, King Saud University. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 2010 – Jul 2018 

  • Assistant Professor, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 2002 – Jul 2010  

  • Oracle DBA & Instructor of IT, Hackney College. Falkirk Street, London, 1998 – Aug2002

  • Reviewer for Journal of Information Sciences 2022-23 

  • Head of Development and Quality Unit of the CCIS College, King Saud University 2010-2018. 

  • Database Manager for Hackney College London 1998-2002

  • Member of Academic Integrity Committee 2022 – 2023, Zayed University. 

  • Member of Faculty Affair Committee 2020 – 2022, College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University. 

  • Course coordinator: Project Management – INS377, College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University. 

  • Head of Development and Quality Unit of the CCIS College, King Saud University 2010-2018. 

  • Database Manager for Hackney College London (1998 to 2002), I performed the following database implementation processes in the College: 

  1. Installed, configured and upgraded Oracle server software and related products. 
  2. Performed database and application tuning and performance monitoring. 
  3. Implemented and maintained database security. 
  4. Established and maintained backup and recovery policies and procedures. 
  5. Performed general technical trouble shooting and gave consultation to development teams. 
  6. Planned growth and changes (capacity planning). 
  7. Setup and maintained standards. 
  8. Monitored and administered production databases to ensure their availability and stability.  
  9. Regularly performed the tasks of importing & exporting databases.
  10. Developed disaster recovery plans for Oracle database server.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS  

Journals (Last Ten) 

  1. Hassan I. Abdalla, Ali A. Amer, Yasmeen A. Amer, Loc Nguyen, Basheer Mohamad Al-Maqaleh “Boosting the Item-Based Collaborative Filtering Model with Novel Similarity Measures”, accepted for publication in the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, July 2023. 

  1. H. Abdalla, A. Amer and Sri Devi Ravana, “BoW-based neural networks vs. cutting-edge models for single-label text classification”, Journal of Neural Computing and Applications, 35, pages20103–20116, 2023. 

  1. H. Abdalla and A. Amer, “On the Integration of Similarity Measures with Machine Learning Models to Enhance Text Classification Performance”, Journal of Information Sciences (Elsevier), INS18112, Oct 2022. 

  1. Hassan I. Abdalla and Ali Amer, “Boolean Logic Algebra Based Similarity Measure for Text Based Applications”, Information Journal of PeerJ Computer Science, Vol-6, Issue-1 (JAN-FEB 2021). 

  1. Ali Amer, Hassan I. Abdalla,  and Loc Nguyen, “Enhancing Recommendation Systems Performance Using Highly-Effective Similarity Measures”, Journal of Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 217, 6 April 2021, 106842. 

  1. A. Amer and H. Abdalla, "A set theory-based similarity measure for text clustering and classification", Journal of Big Data, vol. 7, no. 1, 2020. Available: 10.1186/s40537-020-00344-3. 

  1. Hassan I. Abdalla and Abdel Monim Artoli, “Towards an Efficient Data Fragmentation, Allocation, and Clustering Approach in a Distributed Environment”, Information Journal of MDPI, 10, 112, March 2019, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-020-00344-3. 

  1. Adel Sewisy, Ali Amer and Hassan I. Abdalla, “A Novel Query-Driven Clustering-based Model for Vertical Fragmentation and Allocation in Distributed Database System, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), Volume 13 Issue 2 Jan 2017. 

  1. Ahmed M Al-Zahrani, Hassan Mathkour, Hassan Abdalla, PSO-Based Feature Selection for Arabic Text Summarization, ISI Journal of Universal Computer Science Volume 201, Issue 11, Jan  2016, Pages1454-1469. 

  1. Miltiadis D. Lytras, Hassan I. Mathkour, Hassan Abdalla, Wadee Al-Halabi, Cornelio Yanez-Marquez, Sean Wolfgand Matsui Siqueira, “An emerging – Social and emerging computing enabled philosophical paradigm for collaborative learning systems: Toward high effective next generation learning systems for the knowledge society”, ISI Journal of Computers in Human Behaviour Volume51, October 2015, Pages 557-561. 

 

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS 

Conference (Last Five) 

  1. Hassan I. Abdalla and Aneela Altaf “The Impact of Data Normalization on KNN Rendering”, Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2023 (AISI2023), Sep 2023, published with springer and indexed in Scopus and EI-index ”, August 2023 in Volume 184 of the Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications. 

  1. Hassan I. Abdalla, Yasmeen A. Amer, Loc Nguyen, Ali A. Amer, Basheer Mohamad Al-Maqaleh “Numerical Similarity Measures versus Jaccard for Collaborative Filtering”, published with springer and indexed in Scopus and EI-index ”, August 2023 in Volume 184 of the Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications. 

 

  1. Loc Nguyen, A. Amer and H. Abdalla, “A general framework of particle swarm optimization”, Knowledge-Based Systems, Future Technologies Conference (FTC), October 2022, Vancouver, Canada. 

  1. Hassan I. Abdalla and Ali Amer, “Towards Highly-Efficient k-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm for Big Data Classification”, Published in the proceedings of NISS22 (The 5th International Conference on Networking, Intelligent Systems & Security, March 2022. 

  1. Hassan I. Abdalla and Ali Amer, “A Brief Comparison of K-means and Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Algorithms on Small Datasets”, Published in the proceedings of ITA2021, EDP: ITM Web of Conferences for publishing, and EI and CPCI for indexing, 2021. 

  • QS Maple Attendance Award Sept 20 

  • EduData Summit (EDS) for data-driven educators 11 - 13 June 2109 

  • Award for attending a session on PMI Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM) Sept 2019