AHMED FAWZI ALI OTOOM

Ahmed Fawzi Ali Otoom	Professor
Computer Science / Computer Systems
Faculty of Prince Al-Hussein Bin Abdallah II For Information Technology	Department of Software Engineering (SWE)
aotoom@hu.edu.jo	http://staff.hu.edu.jo/aotoom
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Ph.D.	University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)	Australia,2010
Master	University of Western Sydney (UWS)	Australia,2003
Bachelor	Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST)	Jordan,2002

Machine learning and its applications in software engineering and computer vision.

Journal Papers (refereed) 


1.	A. F. Otoom, M. Hammad, S. Al-jdaeh, S. Awwad, S. Idwan, "Predicting the amount of files required to fix a bug", International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics, (Accepted for publication).

2.	E. E. Abdallah, A. F. Otoom, A. E. Abdallah, M. Bsoul, S. Awwad , “A Hybrid Secure Watermarking Scheme Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and FastWalsh-Hadamard Transform”, Journal of Applied Security Research, (Accepted for publication).


3.	Y. Qawasmeh, S. Awwad, A. F. Otoom, F. Hanandeh, E. Abdallah, "Local Patterns For Offline Arabic Handwritten Recognition", International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, 16(2), 203-215, 2020.

4.	M. Hammad, H. Hijazi, M. Hammad and A. F. Otoom, "Mining Expertise of Developers from Software Repositories", International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 62(3), 227-239, 2020.

5.	A. F. Otoom, A. Alzaben, R. Tlailan, M. Hammad, " Software Effort Classification with Multilayer Perceptron Neural Networks", International Journal of  Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering, 9(2), 2020.

6.	M. Hammad, A. F. Otoom, M. Hammad, N. Al-Jawabreh, R.  Abu Seini, "Multiview Visualization of Software Testing Results", International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems, 9( 1) , 51-59, 2020.

7.	A. F. Otoom, G. AL Kateb, M. Hammad, R.J. Sweis, H.  Hijazi, "Success Factors Importance Based on Software Project Organization Structure", Information, 10(12), 2019.

8.	A. F. Otoom, D. Al-Shdaifat, M. Hammad, E. E. Abdallah,  A. Aljammal, "Automated labelling and severity prediction of software bug reports", International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering,  19(3), 334 – 342, 2019.

9.	M. Hammad, R. Alzyoudi, A. F. Otoom, "Automatic clustering of bug reports", International Journal of Advanced Computer Research, 8(39), 313-323, 2018.

10.	Y. Kilani, A. F. Otoom, A. Alsarhan, M. Almaayah, " A genetic algorithms-based hybrid recommender system of matrix factorization and neighborhood-based techniques", Journal of Computational Science, 28, 78-93, 2018. 

11.	A. H. Aljammal, H. Bani salameh, A. Qawasmeh, A. Alsarhan, A. F. Otoom, " A new technique for data encryption based on third party encryption server to maintain the privacy preserving in the cloud environment", 28(4), 393-402, 2018.

12.	M. Bsoul, A. F. Otoom, A. E. Abdallah, N. Hamadneh, " An enhanced bandwidth hierarchy based replication strategy for dynamic replication in data grid", Multiagent and Grid Systems, 13, 163-175, 2017.

13.	A. E. Abdallah, E. E. Abdallah, M. Bsoul, A. F. Otoom, "Randomized geographic-based routing with nearly guaranteed delivery for three-dimensional ad hoc network", International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 12(10), 2016.
 
14.	A. F. Otoom, Emad E. Abdallah, Maen Hammad, “Breast Cancer Classification: Comparative Performance Analysis of Image Shape-Based Features and Microarray Gene Expression Data”, International Journal of Bio-Science and Bio-Technology, 7(2), 37-46, 2015.

15.	A. F. Otoom, E. E. Abdallah, Y. Kilani, A.Kefaye, and M. Ashour, "Effective Diagnosis and Monitoring of Heart Disease ", International Journal of Software Engineering and its Applications, 9(1), 143-156, 2015.

16.	A. F. Otoom, A. Kefaye, M. Ashour, Y. Shanti, and M. Al-Majali, "Real-Time Monitoring of Patients with Coronary Artery Disease ", International Journal of Future Computer and Communication, 4(3), 207-210, 2015.

17.	E. E. Abdallah, I. Al-Oqily, A. E. Abdallah, A. F. Otoom, A. Alsarhan, "Spectral Graph and Minimal Spanning Tree for 3D Polygonal Meshes Fingerprinting ", International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering , 9(4), 40-53, 2014.

18.	A. F. Otoom, E. E. Abdallah, M. Hammad, M. Bsoul, and A. E. Abdallah, "An Intelligent System for Author Attribution Based on a Hybrid Feature Set ", International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, 6(4), 328-345, 2014.

19.	M. Bsoul, A. Alsarhan, A. Otoom, M. Hammad, and A. Al-Khasawneh "A dynamic replication strategy based on categorization for Data Grid ", Multiagent and Grid Systems, 10 (2), 109-118, 2014.
20.	Maen. Hammad, Mustafa. Hammad, A. F. Otoom, and M. Bsoul, "Detecting Breaks in Design Patterns from Code Changes ", Journal of Software, 9(6), 1485-1493, 2014.

21.	E. E. Abdallah, A. E. Abdallah, M. Bsoul, A. F. Otoom, and E. Al-Daoud, "Simplified Features for Email Authorship identification ", International Journal of Security and Networks, 8(2), 72-81, 2013.

22.	A. F. Otoom, H. Gunes, O. Perez Concha, and M. Piccardi, "MLiT: Mixtures of Gaussians under Linear Transformations", Pattern Analysis and Applications Journal, 14(2), 193-205, 2011.


Conferences and Workshops (refereed)

1.	A. F. Otoom, S. Al-Jdaeh, M. Hammad, "Automated Classification of Software Bug Reports", Proc. 9th International Conference on Information Communication and Management (ICICM'19), Prague, Czech Republic, 2019, pp. 17-21.

2.	A. F. Otoom, M. Hammad, N. Al-jawabreh, R. Abu Seini, "Visualizing Testing Results for Software Projects ", Proc. International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT’2016), December 2016, Morocco.
	
3.	A. F. Otoom, D. Al-Shdaifat, M. Hammad, E. E. Abdallah, "Severity Prediction of Software Bugs ", Proc. The 7th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS), April 2016, Jordan, pp. 92-95.

4.	A. F. Otoom, E. E. Abdullah, S. Jaafer, A. Hamdallh, D. Amer, "Towards Author Identification of Arabic Text Articles", Proc. The 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS), April 2014, Jordan, pp. 1-4.

5.	A. F. Otoom, O. Perez Concha and M. Piccardi, "Boosting Mixtures of Gaussians under Normalized Linear Transformations for Image Classification", Proc. of the 7th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA), November 2011, Sydney, Australia, pp 184-189.

6.	A. F. Otoom, O. Perez Concha and M. Piccardi, "Mixtures of Gaussian Distributions under Linear Dimensionality Reduction", Proc. of International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), May 2010, Angers, France.

7.	A. F. Otoom, O. Perez Concha, H. Gunes and M. Piccardi, "Mixtures of Normalized Linear Projections", Proc. of Advanced Concepts on Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS), Sep. 2009, Bordeaux, France, pp. 66-76.

8.	M. Piccardi, H. Gunes and A. F. Otoom, "Maximum Likelihood Dimensionality Reduction in Gaussian Mixture Models with an Application to Object Classification", Proc. of the IAPR 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Dec. 8-11 2008, Tampa, Florida, USA, IEEE Press, pp. 1-4.

9.	A. F. Otoom, H. Gunes and M. Piccardi, "Feature Extraction Techniques for Abandoned Object Classification in Video Surveillance", Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Oct. 12-15 2008, San Diego, California, USA, IEEE Press, pp. 1368-1371.

10.	A. F. Otoom, H. Gunes and M. Piccardi, "Comparative Performance Analysis of Feature Sets for Abandoned Object Classification", Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Oct. 12-15 2008, Singapore. IEEE Press, pp. 1020-1025.

11.	A. F. Otoom, H. Gunes and M. Piccardi, "Automatic Classification of Abandoned Objects for Surveillance of Public Premises", Proc. of the International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP), 27-30 May 2008, Hainan, China, IEEE Press, pp. 542-549.

12.	A. F. Otoom, H. Gunes and M. Piccardi, "Towards Automatic Abandoned Object Classification in Visual Surveillance Systems", Proc. of the Asia-Pacific Workshop on Visual Information Processing (VIP), Tainan, Taiwan, 15-17 Dec. 2007, Yueh-Min Huang and Tzone I. Wang (Eds.), pp. 143-149.

13.	X. Chen, Y. Chung, F. Xu, A. F. Otoom, and C. Bae, "Combined Copyright Protection and Error Detection Scheme for H.264/AVC", Proc. of the WSEAS International Conference on Multimedia Systems and Signal Processing (MUSP), April 2006, Hangzhou, China, pp. 528- 531.

14.	C. Bae, Y. Chung, X. Chen, and A. F. Otoom, "A New Error Resilent Coding Schemes for the Home Entertainment Video", Proc. of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Jan. 2006, Las Vegas, USA, pp. 1320-1321.

15.	Y. Chung, P. Wang, X. Chen, C. Bae, A. F. Otoom, and T. P. Tran, "A Performance Comparison of High Capacity Digital Watermarking Systems", Proc. of the Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES), Sep. 2005, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1193-1198.

Book chapter 
•	Y. Kilani, A. Alsarhan, M. Bsoul, A. F. Otoom, "Local Search Algorithms for Solving the Combinatorial Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction Problems", Soft Computing Applications, Volume 356 of the series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 199-211, Springer, 2015.

Dissertation 
•	“Effective Feature Sets and Dimensionality Reduction for Object Classification", PhD dissertation, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 2010.

•	Doaa Al-Shdaifat, thesis title: "Severity Prediction of Software Bug Reports", 2016
•	Ruba Zudi, thesis title : "Clustering Bug Reports to Support Software Corrective Maintenance", 2018
•	Sara Al-jdaeh, thesis title: "Classification of Software Maintenance Requests", 2019
•	Sabah Alsofriya, thesis title: “Visualizing Software Bug Reports”, 2020

 2010 - 2016 / Assistant professor / Department of Software Engineering

2016 - now  / Associate  professor / Department of Software Engineering

•	Software Project Management (Graduate course).
•	Research Project (Graduate course).
•	Software Project Management.
•	Software Engineering.
•	Database.
•	Operating systems. 
•	Object Oriented Programming using C++. 
•	Visual Programming using VB.NET.

2016-present  Associate professor
Dept. of Software Engineering. The Hashemite University 
Zarqa – Jordan  

2010- 2016 Assistant professor
Dept. of Software Engineering. The Hashemite University 
Zarqa – Jordan  

Sep. 2003 - Jan. 2005 Lecturer, Jerash Private University, Jerash, Jordan.


- The 9th International Conference on Information Communication and Management (ICICM'19), Prague, Czech Republic, August 2019.

- International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT'2016), December 2016, Morocco. 

- The 7th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS), April 2016, Irbid, Jordan.

- The 3rd International Conference on Information and Computer Networks (ICICN), March 2015, Florence, Italy.

- The 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS), April 2014, Irbid, Jordan.

- The 7th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA), November 2011, Sydney, Australia.

- IAPR Digital Image computing Techniques and Application (DICTA), Melbourne, Australia, 2009. 

- IAPR 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Tampa, Florida, USA, 2008.  

- IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San Diego, California, USA, 2008.  

- Multimedia Signal Processing workshop, organized by National ICT Australia, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, 2007.  

- WSEAS International Conference on Multimedia Systems and Signal Processing (MUSP), Hangzhou, China, 2006.  

- Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance, Sydney, Australia, 2006. 

- Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES), Melbourne, Australia, 2005.

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