Outline

• - Keynote Speakers
• - Workshops
• - Accepted Papers
• - Agenda
• - Social Events

Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speaker 1: Prof. Mohammed Ismail

Semiconductor Research: A Corner Stone for Building a Knowledge Based Economy

Dr. Ismail will present the Abu Dhabi 2030 vision towards diversifying the economy beyond oil and gas by investing in the strategic sectors of ICT, semiconductors, public health, nuclear technology  and aerospace. We will introduce the newly established UAE Center of Excellence on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems (aka ACE4S https://www.src.org/program/grc/ace4s/ ) involving researchers from 5 UAE Universities looking at developing new technologies aiming at innovative self powered wireless sensing and monitoring techniques. The research will target applications in wearable self powered chip sets for use in public health, ambient intelligence, safety and security and water quality.  The Center will cultivate human capital trained in cutting edge semiconductor and nanotechnology research with the ultimate goals of spinning off companies and attracting local and foreign direct investments.

Dr. Ismail Joined Khalifa University in March 2011. He spent over 25 years in academia and industry in the US and Europe and was the Founding Director of the Ohio State University’s Analog VLSI Lab , one of the foremost research entities in the field of analog and RF integrated circuits. He also had a Research Chair at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Founded the RaMSiS (Radio and Mixed Signal Integrated Systems) Research Group there. He advised to completion over 50 doctoral and 100 master students. He is the Founding Editor of the Springer Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing serves as the Journal Editor in Chief and has served the IEEE in many editorial and Administrative capacities. He is the Founder of the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), the flagship Region 8 Conference of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He is a consulting Editor of the Springer Advanced Analog Book Series.

Dr. Ismail is a Co-Founder of Micrys Inc., Columbus, Ohio, Spirea AB, Stockholm, Firstpass Technologies Inc., Dublin, Ohio and ANACAD-Egypt (now part of Mentor Graphics).

At Khalifa, Dr. Ismail serves as Director of the Sharjah Campus and has recently accepted the Chair position of the newly established ECE Department which exists on both campuses (Sharjah and Abu Dhabi) of the University. The Department has its roots in the Etisalat College established in 1989. It now has over 40 faculty and 500 students, 450 undergraduate and 50 graduate students and is offering BS degrees in Electronics, communications and Computer and Software engineering as well as MS and PhD programs in ECE. Dr. Ismail has initiated the new Khalifa University ICT Research Center encompassing 5 Research Labs conducting multidisciplinary research in information security, e-services and networks, multimedia communications and embedded mixed signal systems. He is working on creating the ATIC-Khalifa Semiconductor Research Center focusing on low power system on chip design, test and IP development targeting the strategic areas of low power wireless chip sets, bio chips, self powered devices, power managements as well as research in the emerging fields of nanoscience. The Research in the department is aligned with the 2030 Abu Dhabi strategic plan calling for diversification of the economy beyond oil and gas and for promoting innovation, entrepreneurship and spinoffs in the semiconductor, energy and ICT sectors among others

Keynote Speaker 2: Dr. Roland Lenain

Advanced control techniques for safe and accurate Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV)

Classical control techniques now generally offer good performances for designing automatic systems in known and constant conditions. This is notably the case in the field of unmanned Ground Vehicle, as the autonomous motion may be achieve with a few centimeters accuracy, when moving at a limited speed on a terrain with good grip conditions. Providing an accurate localization information becomes in this case the main challenge. Nevertheless, when considering a motion at high speed on in complex environment lead to perturbations depreciating the level of accuracy and hazardous for vehicles integrity. As a result, advanced control techniques have to be investigated in order to account for uncertainty and variation in the robots dynamics with respect to its environment. In this talk, the investigation of adaptive and predictive control for preserving accuracy and stability of mobile robots path tracking is proposed. In particular, a mechatronic approach is shown to be efficient for solving complex problems such as moving on complex terrain. Gathering several compounds of mechatronics (such as mechanical modelling, estimation, automatics, and electronics) indeed permits to develop a global control strategy allowing to compensate for high and uncertain dynamics. The efficiency of such developments is investigated through full scale experiments using all-terrain robots moving on natural environment. The talk will be illustrated by several examples and situations. Above the theoretical aspects, the talk will also highlights some short term applications dealing with efficiency and safety of off-road vehicle, especially in the field of agriculture and forestry.

Roland Lenain is a research fellow in Irstea (National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture), TSCF Unit – Clermont-Ferrand Division, France, on the topic of off-road mobile robotics. His research interests include the modeling and the control of mobile robots, submitted to uncertain and dynamical effects. This covers the motion control as well as safety aspects (rollover, instability). These works are applied in various areas: agriculture and environment, driver assistance or military aspects. Currently in Irstea since 2006, Roland Lenain is in Charge of several National Project in the topic of mobile robot and vehicle control in hazardous context (such as FAST and ActiSurTT). He achieved a Post Doctoral Position in Lund University (dpt Automatic Control). He received is Ph.D. degree in Robotics from the Blaise Pascal University in 2005. He was graduated from IFMA (French Institute for Advanced Mechanics) in 2002.

Keynote Speaker 3: Dr. Patrick Degenaar

Signal Processing & Applications

Biomedical engineering for optogenetic implants

In this talk, Dr. Patrick Degenaar will give an introduction to the Neuroscience field, and the key issues and requirements of the powerful new optogenetics technique. I will then discuss the key engineering requirements required for the coming class of optoelectronic neural implants. In particular, I will discuss how the technique provides highly precise neural control and thus necessitates new types signal processing. Finally I will give examples of how the technique may make a huge difference to the lives of millions of people suffering neurological disorders.

His lab has both state of the art electronics and a fully fledged wet biology facilities. Currently he has 10 Lab members, but is hiring 4 new research associates. His 2010 Journal of Neural Engineering paper describing Micro-LED arrays for optical neural prosthesis has been downloaded over 3000 times and is highlighted as one of the ten most significant in that journal. Overall he has 550 citations and a H-index of 11 in Google Scholar.

In 2003 a research paper on a protein from an obscure algea has become one of the most important biomedical breakthrough’s in recent times. The technique, now known as optogenetics, allows us to achieve highly precise control the nervous system with short pulses of intense light It solves many of the problems of electrode degradation, non-specific stimulation and allows for simultaneous real time stimulation and (electrical) recording. Applications include deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, and Dystonia, heart pacemakers, visual prosthesis and auditory prosthesis. In tandem with those developing the molecular biology and cellular targeting aspects of optogenetics, my team has been developing stimulator optoelectronics. These centre on microsystems consisting of CMOS controlled Gallium Nitride micro-LEDs (µLEDs) with micro light delivery systems to the retina or brain tissue.

Dr. Patrick Degenaar is a Reader in Neuroprosthesis at Newcastle University. He holds a BSc (1st class)
in applied physics and MRes in surface science from Liverpool University, and a Ph.D. in bioelectronics from
the Japan Advanced Institute for Science and Technology. After his PhD he worked briefly in the software industry before doing two post-doctoral positions in Imperial College, London from 2002-2005. In 2005 he was awarded
a RCUK fellowship and lectureship at Imperial College. He then moved his team to Newcastle in 2010. He has over 70 published Journal and international conference papers, chapters in 3 books, and 5 patents granted and pending.

Dr. Patrick key interests are in optogenetic neural prosthesis and in particular, visual prosthesis, where he has been pioneering the use of CMOS bonded LED microarrays for the stimulation of the human nervous system. Together with collaborators, he has received $25M in research funding since 2008. These include grants from the EPSRC, BBSRC, BRC, Thierri Latran foundation, European Commission and Welcome Trust. Of particular note is his coordination of the €2M FP7 project for retinal prosthesis and being a part of the £14M EPSRC/Wellcome trust project to develop human implants for epilepsy.

Keynote Speaker 4: Prof. Eleni Karatza

IT Applications & Systems

Performance of Grids and Clouds – Advanced Challenges and Research Trends

Computational and data grids and clouds are large-scale distributed systems used for serving demanding jobs. Their popularity has been growing rapidly, so their performance became more important due to the tremendous increase of users and applications. Because of the nature of these systems, there are important issues that must be addressed, such as: resource allocation, efficient scheduling, energy conservation, reliability, security and trust, cost, availability, quality. Effective management of grid and cloud resources is crucial to use effectively the power of these systems and achieve high system performance. Furthermore, due to the cost of electrical power consumption and the environmental impact, energy efficiency in grid and cloud systems is a global IT concern. Grid resource allocation and scheduling manages the selection of resources for a job and the monitoring of jobs execution. In large-scale heterogeneous distributed systems, such as grids, energy conservation is an important issue and can take place at multiple levels; some examples are server level, cluster level, site level and grid broker level.

Cloud computing is a concept that has emerged from grid computing; it provides users the ability to acquire computational resources on demand from its virtually infinite pool on a pay-as-you-go basis. The cloud computing paradigm can offer various types of services, such as computational resources for HPC applications, web services, social networking, etc. Resource allocation and scheduling is a difficult task in clouds where there are many alternative heterogeneous computers. If cloud computing is going to be used for HPC, appropriate methods must be considered for allocating resources to user requests efficiently, VM scalability, as well as effectively scheduling the tasks. The scheduling algorithms must seek a way to maintain a good response time to leasing cost ratio. Furthermore, adequate data security and availability are critical issues that have to be considered along with energy-efficient solutions that are required to minimize the impact of cloud computing on the environment. The performance evaluation of grids and clouds is often possible only by simulation rather than by analytical methodologies, due to the complexity of the systems. Advanced modeling and simulation techniques are a basic aspect of performance evaluation that is needed before the costly prototyping actions required for grid and cloud systems.

Eleni D. Karatza is a Professor in the Department of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Dr. Karatza’s research interests include Computer Systems Modeling and Simulation, Performance Evaluation, Grid and Cloud Computing, Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems, Resource Allocation and Scheduling and Real-time Distributed Systems. Dr. Karatza has authored or co-authored over 175 technical papers and book chapters including four papers that earned best paper awards at international conferences. She is senior member of IEEE, ACM and SCS. She has served as Program Chair and Keynote Speaker in International Conferences, and she is Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier Journal “Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory”.

 

Keynote Speaker 5: Dr. Ahmed Seffah

Social Serious Game as a Citizen-centric Design and Innovation Platform Applied to Natural Resources Sustainable Management

The green.Amman@IT is a community project that combines serious games, citizen and design science concepts into a social media platform to collecting data from citizens regarding their style of life, mainly their experiences in consuming natural resources such as water, electricity and gasoline,  three critical resources in Jordan. While supporting fun and competition among citizens, the social serious game approach developed in this project aims to support long life learning and citizen awareness about the consequences of our daily actions on the environment. Citizens are encouraged to decrease their consumption of natural resources. If they are successful, they earn credits and other awards, which increase their motivation, active engagement and finally to be win the price “green citizen of Amman city”. The play, discover, connect, share and innovate metaphor we are experimenting via the social gaming approach has two fundamental objectives: (1) facilitating the immersion of strategies and patterns to developing and managing efficiently natural resources and (2) involving citizen as a key designer of sustainable development regulations that are derived from citizen daily experiences (solutions by citizens, with citizens and for citizens). The talk presents this metaphor and summarizes the key concepts of the underlying socio-technical citizen-centric design and innovation system we have developing during the last 10 years.

Dr Ahmed Seffah is an industry consultant and a full professor of human-centric software systems design, engineering and innovation. He is focusing on ICT-based services and systems engineering for public/homeland security, disasters, crisis and emergency management as well as sustainable development. Over a period 20 years, he has been lecturing and teaching in various Universities and Schools of Engineering in Canada, France, Switzerland and Middle East. He is the co-author of 5 books and more than 100 scientific publications. His research interests are the intersection of software engineering and human computer interaction including human factors in software/information systems engineering, man-machine interfaces design and evaluation as well as the gaps between human experiences/factors factors (how human people perceived, master and use a complex system) and digital artifacts (how it is actually engineered and it works). Human factors include usability, acceptability, accessibility as well as privacy, trust, societal accountability and the interplay between these factors and security.

Keynote Speaker 6: Dr. Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Spectrum Scarcity, Cognitive Radio, and Free Space Optical Communications

The concept of cognitive networks has emerged as one of the efficient means for utilizing the scarce spectrum by allowing spectrum sharing between a licensed primary network and a secondary network. In this talk, we briefly present an overview of various recently proposed types of cognitive networks and then discuss some fundamental capacity results of these networks. The talk goes then over the potential offered by free space optical communications to relieve spectrum scarcity and then summarizes some of the challenges that need to be surpassed before such kind of systems can be massively deployed.

Mohamed-Slim Alouini (S'94, M'98, SM'03, F’09) was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1998.

He served as a faculty member in the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, then in the Texas A&M University at Qatar, Education City, Doha, Qatar before joining King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia as a Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2009. His current research interests include the modeling, design, and performance analysis of wireless communication systems.

WorkShops

WorkShop 1:

Software Defined Radio (SDR) with FPGA

Workshop presenter: Loay Khalaf, Ph.D
Workshop hours: 8 hours

The workshop is an intensive, one day presentation and training on Radio Front Ends, Digital Modems, Configurable Logic, Programable DSP's, Data Convertors, and Software Defined Radio Architecture. Theoretical background is covered, including detection and estimation, then sampling and quatization of signals, then the hardware components and devices are introduced. Tradeoff between fully programable DSP's and FPGA's is presented.Simulation tools, and design capture and verification tools for FPGA's are presented. Hands on training will be demonstrated

Loay Khalaf, Ph.D. is an experienced RF and Baseband Modem Designer. He designed modems in analog and digital technologies, for wireless and cale networks. Through his career, Loay designed Digital Loop Carrier and Fiber Loop Carrier transmission equipment for Nortel. Later, he designed RF circuits and Modems for cable networks at Scientific Atlanta (a Cisco Company), before cofounding Telematix Corp. and producing 802.11 WLAN Modems. Later, Loay founded other companies and produced WPAN PHY IP. Currently, Loay is an Assistant Profesor at the University of Jordan.

Outline and schedule

Attendees: up to 30

Who should attend: Practicing engineers and students who expect to be involved or would like to know more about the practice of SDR

• Introduction to SDR: Configurable logic, FPGA, programmable logic, multicore CPU, Analog RFE, ADC/DAC types and properties, reconfiguration (45 min)
• FPGA: architecture and DSP blocks, configuration methods (15 min)
• SDR Algorithms (45 min)
• Coffee break (15 min)
• SDR Tools: (45 min)
• Simulation Floating and fixed point,
• Matlab and FP blockset, Simulink, AWR VSS
• Design: CPPSIM and PLLSIM, ADS
• Synthesis and simulation: VHDL, Verilog and Verilog A/AMS (45 min)
• GNU Radio (15)
• Q&A: (30 min)
• Lunch break (60 min)
• Digital Signal Processing for communications/ algorithm implementation (45 min)
• Hands on workshop: A ZIGBEE 2.4 GHz SDR (120 min)

Fees:

• Students IEEE members: 75 JD
• Students none IEEE members: 125 JD
• Engineers IEEE members: 200 JD
• Engineers none IEEE members: 250 JD

 

WorkShop 2 :

Fractional-Order Systems and Control

Workshop presenter: Reyad El-Khazali, Dr.
Workshop hours: Half Day

The purpose of this workshop is to introduce the fractional calculus and its applications in systems and controller design. The fractional calculus is a generalization to the integer-order calculus, where fractional differentiation and integration are of non-integer real or complex orders. Fractional order systems have been labeled recently as the “21 century system” since most systems are best described by fractional-order dynamics. For example, a real process of dielectricrelaxation during the polymerization reaction of polyvinylpyrolidone (PVP) is described by fractional kinetic equation of complex order. The human skull tissue is characterized by fractional-order impedance. Similarly, an invasive testing of fruits and vegetables proved that most of, if not all, the electrical characteristics of fruits and vegetables enjoy fractional-order dynamics. The list of examples can be extended to electrical transmission lines, ultrasonic wave propagation in human cancerous bones, modeling of cardiac human tissue, sound wave propagation in rigid porous material and much more.
Fractional-order systems are classified as hereditary systems that exhibit long memory. They can be described by infinite-dimensional models. Hence, fractional-order controllers would be more suitable than the integer-order ones to control or to improve their behavior
The need to digitally compute fractional order derivatives and integrals arises frequently in many fields such as in control engineering and digital signal processing. Fractional-order proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers (PIμDλ ) are based on the fractional order calculus and gaining popularity. PIμDλ controllers have extra tuning parameters that improve, with the hereditary effect, the performance of systems more than its integer-order counterparts.
In this workshop, a general introduction about fractional-order calculus will highlight the significance of its tools on system modeling such as modeling and approximating of the fractional-order Laplace Operator. The stability and the state-space representation of these systems will be discussed. An overview of several design method of fractional-order PIμDλ controller design will also be introduced.

Reyad El-Khazali received the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Menofia University in Egypt in 1976 and M.Sc. degrees in automatic control engineering from the University of Huntsville, Alabama, USA in 1986. He received the PhD. degree in
control engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA in 1992. He joined Mutah University in Jordan as an assistant and later as an associate professor since 1992 until 2000. He then joined Etisalat University College (EUC) in Sharjah-UAE. EUC then became the nuclei of Khalifa University in 2007, where Dr. El-Khazali is an associate professor at Sharjah campus. He published over 50 articles in reputable journals and international refereed conferences.

Outline and schedule

Who should attend: Engineers, scientists, postgraduate students, and academics. The workshop is suitable for system engineers and control researchers and practitioners who may not be familiar with fractional-order systems and ontroller design

The workshop begins with an introduction to a theoretical foundation of fractional-order calculus and its basic properties. Examples of many physical systems that are accurately modeled by fractional-order dynamic will be discussed. Continuous and discrete-time approximation of fractional-order derivative (integral) will also be outlined. Stability of fractional-order systems (FOS) in the time and frequency domains is investigated.
A new approximation method (El-Khazali’s approximations) is introduced to approximate fractional-order differentiator (integrator) operators s±α in a given frequency range of interest and to realize frequency-band limited fractional-order systems. This new method can achieve better approximation than the existent methods in the whole frequency range. Next, it is shown how to build a SIMULINK model to numerically simulate fractional-order systems. Fractional-Order Controller (FOC) design will then be introduced starting from the state-space feedback, to FoPID controllers and ending up with sliding-mode FOC controller design.
Then the FOC is applied to basic control problem and compared with integer-order controllers. The better robustness performances of FOC are shown by the comparison of fractional order PID controller’s responses with its integer-order PID counterparts.

Fees:

• Students IEEE members: 75 JD
• Students none IEEE members: 125 JD
• Engineers IEEE members: 200 JD
• Engineers none IEEE members: 250 JD

Outline and schedule:

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE Time	Topic	Presenter
14:00-14:10	Welcome and Introduction	Nabeel Tawalbeh
14:10-15:00	Brief tutorial and historical review of fractional calculus and overview of its applications. Examples of FOS	Reyad El-Khazali
15:00-15:45	Continuous and discrete-time approximation of fractional-order operators. Computer simulation of FOS using Matlab/Simulink	Reyad El-Khazali
15:45-16:00	Break
16:00-16:50	Applications of fractional order controllers design in control systems. New FoPID controllers Design	Reyad El-Khazali
16:50-17:30	Fractional-order controllers versus integer-order ones: comparative studies of benchmark problems	Reyad El-Khazali
17:30-17:40	Closing remarks	Reyad El-Khazali

WorkShop 3 :

"Self-Healing" Design of RF and mm-Wave Systems on chip

Workshop presenter: Mohammed Ismail, Dr.
Workshop hours: Half Day

To achieve the highest performance/price ratios of handheld wireless devices, the current trends in wireless chip set development call for a programmable cognitive-like multi-standard nanometer CMOS radios integrated on a single chip. This represents a grand challenge to both the yield and validation of such chip sets and typically requires several silicon spins which will increase the NRE development costs and may result in significant product delays and in missing important market windows. To meet this challenge we present design techniques for “self-awareness” and “self-healing” of multi-band, multi-mode CMOS radio systems and demonstrate the validity of these techniques in the design of WiMAX/LTE CMOS radio front ends. Moreover, we will review the evolution of the wireless technology and chipsets beyond 3G as well as the basic principles of zero-IF CMOS multi-band, multi-mode radios from antenna to bits. We will also present a compact transceiver architecture suitable for TDD radio systems. The transceiver architecture will be developed and augmented with self-test capabilities and digitally-assisted RF circuits in an effort to contain robustness-enhancement self-calibration routines.

Who should attend: The material will be given at an introductory level, so newcomers to the field are very much welcome.

The discussion will cover the following topics among others:

• Chip set evolution towards 3G and 4G
• Radio architectures, design and tradeoffs
• Self-awareness and self healing design
• Built-in Self Test of RF and mm-wave ICs
• Digital self-calibration: case studies in RF/mm-wave front ends

Fees:

• Students IEEE members: $50
• Students none IEEE members: $100
• Engineers IEEE members: $100
• Engineers none IEEE members: $150

 

Accepted Papers

Communications & Networking

• A new Partitioning-Based Data Gathering Algorithm for Path-Constrained Mobile Elements in Wireless SensorNetworks.
• An Arrow Shaped Ultra Wide Band Antenna With Reduced RCS
• Bluetooth/UWB circular patch antenna with dual band notches
• Dipole Scattering from a Coated Perfect Electromagnetic Conducting Sphere
• Dynamic Load Balancing Protocol (DLBP) for Wireless Sensor Networks
• Enhanced Service Delivery for Cognitive Systems within Multiple Antenna Scenarios
• FPGA Design and Implementation of Digital Up- Converter using Quadrature Oscillator
• Internal Nine-Band Antenna for WWAN/LTE Mobile Handsets
• Quality of Experience Analysis of Video Transmission over Lossy Networks
• Stream Reservation MAC Protocol for Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks
• Studying the BER Performance, Power- and Bandwidth- Efficiency for FSO Communication Systems under Various Modulation Schemes
• Web-of-Things Inspired e-Health Platform for Integrated Diabetes Care Management

Control, Automation & Mechatronics:

• Control of Variable Speed Drive (VSD) based on Diode Clamped Multilevel Inverter using Direct Torque Control and Fuzzy Logic.
• Homography Based visual tracking of a mobile robot: A New Approach
• Performance of Commercial Over-Head Camera Sensors in Recognizing Patterns of Two and Three Persons: A Case Study
• Rollover prevention of All-Terrain Vehicle during agressive driving using multi-model observer
• UAV Dynamics Model Parameters Estimation Techniques: a Comparison Study

IT Applications & Systems

• A Novel Chunk Coalescing Algorithm for Data Deduplication in Cloud Storage
• Aircraft Tracking Based on KLT Feature Tracker and Image Modeling
• An Architecture for Social Ad-Hoc Networks
• Arabic Sentiment Analysis: Lexicon-based and Corpus-based
• Artificial Immune Recognition System for Off-line Signature Verification
• Clinical Decision Support System for Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Renal Failure
• Evaluating English To Arabic Machine Translators
• Extracting Arabic Semantic Graph from Aljazeera.net
• GPU-based Personal SuperComputing
• Greedy Cylinder Routing Algorithm for Mobile Network Devices
• Implementing Image Processing Algorithms in FPGA Hardware
• Improved 3D Meshes Fingerprinting Using Normal Vectors and Spanning Tree
• SCIP: Selective Cache Insertion and Bypassing to Improve the Performance of Last-Level Caches
• Secure Cluster-Based SIP Service over Ad Hoc Networks
• SPAR: A System to Detect Spam in Arabic Opinions
• Test-to-Code Traceability: Why and How?
• The Evaluation of Trust and Credibility Metrics: Websites of Jordanian Universities and E-Government Portals as a Case Study
• Towards Improving Khoja Rule-Based Arabic Stemmer

Power & Energy Systems

• A Novel Islanding Detection Method for Three-Phase Photovoltaic Generation Systems
• Adaptive Kalman filter for Voltage Sag detection in Power System
• Analysis and Evaluation of Electrical Wiring Safety Requirements in Jordanian Residential Buildings
• Application of Firefly Algorithm (FA) based optimization in load frequency control for interconnected reheat thermal power system
• Carbon Nanotube Field effect Transistor Models: Performance and Evaluation
• Considering the Series Compensation in Optimal Coordination of Directional Overcurrent Protections using PSO Technique
• Design & Analysis of a Sine Wave Inverter using Forward Converter and T-LCLC Immittance Conversion Circuit
• Developed Cluster of SVC Installation in Power System Network via Hybrid Meta-Heuristic Method
• Effect of Column Dimensions in Pressure Production for Sea Wave Energy in Electricity Generation
• Governor Design for Isolated Steam Power Systems using Fractional-Order PID
• Performance Enhancement of Thin-Film c-Si Solar Cell with Group III-V Material Grating Structures
• Solving Fuzzy Combined-Emission Dispatch by Using Differential Evolution Immunized Ant Colony Optimization Technique.
• True Three-Phase Bidirectional Switch Based AC-AC Buck-Boost Converter Topology.

Signal Processing & Applications

• A Comparative Study of Signal And Image Processing Systems For Condition Monitoring of Milling Processes Using Artificial Intelligence
• A Fuzzy-Smooth Variable Structure Filtering Strategy for State and Parameter Estimation
• An efficient approximant for 2D digital models: Application to the 2D IIR filters synthesis
• Coherent Decoys Jamming Anti-radiation Missiles
• Colored-Noise Effect on Short Word-length Block Adaptive System
• Digital Signal Processing Approach for Modeling Electrically and Magnetically Dispersive Electromagnetic Applications.
• FPGA Design of an even power distributor for optoelectronic neural stimulation
• Histopathological Prostate Tissue Glands Segmentation for Automated Diagnosis
• Hybrid Classifier Based Drusen Detection in Colored Fundus Images
• Intracranial Force and Cerebrospinal Fluid Dynamics in Brain Autoregulation
• Medical image denoising using Dual Tree Complex Thresholding Wavelet Transform
• Modified after Surgical Face recognition using RBF Neural Networks and local Gabor Binary Patterns
• Reduced complexity algorithm for channel optimized switched split vector quantization: Application to wideband LSF parameters.
• Retinal Image Analysis for Diagnosis of Macular Edema using Digital Fundus Images
• Sound Source Direction Estimation In Horizontal Plane Using Microphone Array
• The Toeplitz-Observability Smooth Variable Structure Filter
• The Use of S-Transform for Distance Relay's Power Swing Detection

Agenda

AEECT 2013 Program Outline

The Final Conference Program is now available in a PDF Program Booklet. This booklet includes the detailed program, maps, and venue information.

color code:

• A: Large Aud.
• B: Medium Aud.
• C: Small Aud.

Social Events

Gala Dinner in Amman Le Royal. A bus will pick up and return the conference participants staying in the 4 participating hotels. The timetable will be posted soon

Trip to the Dead Sea (Lunch Swim in the Crown Plaza). The buses leaving to the Dead Sea are going to leave directly from the University of Jordan to the Dead Sea just after the last parallel session.

The Dead Sea Crown Plaza has a beach on the Dead Sea and has several swimming pools; two of them are heated in December (Infinity Pool and the Winter Pool). If weather permits, you can swim in the Dead Sea or in the swimming pools.

If you plan to swim, bring your swimwear. The hotel provides one towel per person.

 

Optional tours to Petra and Wadi Rum. Details are available on the Travel Page.