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Department of Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
American University of Sharjah
P.O. Box 26666
Sharjah, UAE
Fax: (971) 6-5152979
E-mail: rahmed@aus.edu
For admission enquiries, please contact E-mail: admission@aus.edu

 
 
Ghassan Z. Qaddah, Associate Professor
PhD, University of Michigan/Ann Arbor, USA 1983

Address:
Department of Computer Engineering
College of Engineering American University of Sharjah
P.O. Box 26666
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Room: EL 109
Office: (971) 6 515 2913
Fax: (971) 6 515 2979
E-mail: gqadah@aus.edu

Research Interests

Serial/parallel database and intelligent systems, mobile/Internet computing, software programming and development, networking/Internet/intranet and information technology management

 

Course
 Description

COE 210

Programming I

COE 211

Programming II

COE 212

Program Development and Design in Java

COE 221

Digital Systems

COE 311

Data Structures and Algorithms

COE 422

Database Systems

ESM 555

Information Technology for Engineering Managers

Biography

Dr. Qadah earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Ain-Shams University/Cairo-Egypt and M.SC. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor. Dr. Qadah served on the faculty of the Computer Engineering Department of Northwestern University (1983-1991) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology/Zurich (1985-1986). Between 1991 and 1997, he worked with AT&T and lately Lucent Technologies Bell Labs. During the years 1998 through 2001, Dr. Qadah was on a World Bank-supported mission as a Senior Technology Advisor to the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) responsible for planning, setting up and managing its information technology infrastructure including the registration and operation of the Palestinian Top-Level domain (.ps), the design and implementation of a government-wide intranet and setup and operation of IT training institutes to the benefit of the Palestinian employees. Currently, Dr. Qadah is an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at the American University of Sharjah.

Dr. Qadah has extensive academic and industrial experience in information technology, serial/parallel database systems, XML databases and queries, software engineering and computer networks. He supervised over 30 master and Ph.D. level students. Dr. Qadah has served as a symposium chair, track chair and a member of  technical program committees of a number of international conferences. He presented a number of tutorials worldwide and published over 37 quality papers in prestigious Computer Engineering/Science Journals and Conference Proceedings. Dr. Qadah holds a patent for his work on Voice-over-IP (VOIP) at Lucent’s Bell Labs.

 

Publications

 Patents

  1. S. Bhattacharya, M. Pratap, H. Schultz, P. Singh, Q. Li, G. Qadah and G. D’Angelo, Method and system for call signaling in telephone calls over a packet-switched network. Patent # 6,353,610, issued 2002.

 

Journal and Conference Papers

  1. G. Qadah and R. Taha, Electronic Voting Systems: Requirements, Design, and Implementation, International Journal on Computer Standards & Interfaces, Elsevier publisher, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 376 – 386, March 2007.
  2. I. Zulkernan, J. Allert and G. Qadah, Learning Styles of Computer Programming Students: A Middle-Eastern and American Comparison, IEEE Transaction on Education, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 443-450, November 2006.
  3. G. Qadah and W. Al-Zouabi, XML-based Electronic Service Delivery Systems: A Case Study, Journal of Computing and Information Technology, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 243-253, September 2006.
  4. I. Zulkernan, L. Blank, J. Abdalla. A. Al-Ali, H. Al-Nashash, H. El Kadi, R. Ahmed, and G. Qadah, Using Future Search Conference for e-Learning Strategy Formulation in Higher Education, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), pp. 1060 – 1064, July 2006.
  5. AbuLaban and G. Qadah, Seller Strategies for non-English Online Auctions, Proceedings of  the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2006, May, 2006, pp. 755 - 759.
  6. G. Qadah and W. Al-Zouabi, “An XML-based System for Fixed and Mobile Delivery of Electronic Services,” Proceedings of the 2nd International Research Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT’05), September 2005.
  7. I. Zulkernan, J. Allert and G. Qadah, A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Learning Styles: The AUS-UMD Experience, Proceedings of the 2nd International Research Conference on Innovation in Information Technology (IIT’05), September 2005.
  8. G. Qadah, Parallel Processing of XML Databases, Proceedings of  the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2005, May, 2005, pp. 1946 - 1950.
  9. G. Qadah, Query Processing in very Large XML Databases,  Proceedings of the IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2005, May, 2005, 1073 - 1077.
  10. G. Qadah, Requirements, Design and Implementation of an e-Voting System, Proceedings of IADIS International Conference on Applied Computing 2005, Algrave, Portugal, February 2005, pp. 405-409.  
  11. G. Qadah, An Infrastructure for e-Government: A Case Study, Proceeding of the 2nd IEEE GCC 2004 Conference, November 2004.
  12. I. Toroslu and G. Qadah, The Strong Partial Transitive-Closure Problem: Algorithms and Performance Evaluation, IEEE Transaction on Data and Knowledge Engineering, August 1996.
  13. I. Toroslu and G. Qadah, New Transitive Closure Algorithm for Recursive Query Processing in Deductive Databases, Journal of Applied Intelligence, Vol. 4, No. 2, May 1994, pp. 205-217.
  14. I. Toroslu and G. Qadah, The Efficient Computation of Strong Partial Transitive-Closures, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Data Engineering, April 1993.
  15. I. Toroslu and G. Qadah, New Transitive Closure Algorithm for Recursive Query Processing in Deductive Databases, 4th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (TAI92), November 1992, pp. 268-275.
  16. I. Toroslu, G. Qadah and L. Henschen, Method Inheritance with Object Updates in an Object-Oriented Logic Programming Language, Workshop on Deductive Databases at JIC­SLP'92, November 1992.
  17. I. Toroslu and G. Qadah, Method Inheritance in an Object-Oriented Logic Programming Language, Golden West International Conference on Intelligent Systems, June 1992.
  18. G. Qadah and J. Kim, The Processing of a Class of Transitive-Closure Queries on Uniprocessor and Shared-Nothing Multiprocessor System, Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering-North Holland, August 1992, pp. 57-88.
  19. S. Lee, L. Henschen and G. Qadah, Semantic Query Reformulation in Deductive Databases, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Data Engineering, April 1991.
  20. G. Qadah, L. Henschen and J. Kim, Efficient Processing of Instantiated Transitive Closure Queries, IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 3 (March 1991), pp. 296-309.
  21. G. Qadah, The Wavefront and delta-Wavefront Algorithms: A Comparative Performance Study, Proceedings of the International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications, March 1991, pp. 799-805.
  22. S. Lee, L. Henschen and G. Qadah, Knowledge-directed Query Processing in Expert Database Systems, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Tools for AI, November 1990, pp. 640-646.
  23. G. Qadah, Super-TC: An Efficient Generic Algorithm for Processing Instantiated Transitive Closure Queries in Deductive Database Systems, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Tools for AI, November 1990, pp. 841-847.
  24. G. Qadah, The Processing of Join Operation on Cube-connected Multiprocessor System, ISMM International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, October 1990.
  25. G. Qadah, Processing the Transitive Closure Logic Rules on Shared Nothing Multiprocessor Systems, Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Computer Software & Application Conference (COMPSAC), October 1990, pp. 214-220.
  26. G. Qadah and J. Kim, Distributed Processing of the Transitive Closure Queries, Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing, August 1990.
  27. G. Qadah, A Set-oriented Inference Mechanism for Large Data-intensive Logic Bases, Proceedings of the International Computer Software & Application Conference (COMPSAC), October 1989, pp. 788-790.
  28. G. Qadah and K. Irani, The Join Algorithms on a Shared-memory Multiprocessor Database Machine, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 11 (November 1988), pp. 1668-1683.
  29. C. Chaou, J. Han and G. Qadah,  The Processing and Evaluation of Transitive Closure Queries (with and), Proceedings of the Conference on Extending Database Technology ( EDBT88), Venice, Italy, March 1988, pp. 48-75.
  30. G. Qadah, Filter-based Join Algorithms on Uniprocessor and Distributed Memory Multiprocessor Database Machines. Proceedings of the Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT88), Venice, Italy, March 14-18, 1988, pp. 388-413.
  31. G. Qadah, An Inference Model and a Tree- Structured Multiprocessor for Large Data-Intensive Logic Bases, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Database Machines, October, 1987, pp. 130-143.
  32. G. Qadah and M. Nussbaum, Logic Machines: A Survey, Proceedings of the National Computer Conference, AFIPS Press, June 1987, pp. 265-278.
  33. G. Qadah and K. Irani, A Database Machine for Very Large Relational Database, (with K.B. Irani), IEEE Trans. On Computers, Vol. C-34, No. 11, November 1985, pp. 1015-1025.
  34. G. Qadah, Database Machines: A Survey. Proceedings of the National Computer Conference, AFIPS Press, July 1985, pp. 211-223.
  35. G. Qadah, The Equi-Join Operation on a Multiprocessor Database Machine: Algorithms and Evaluation of their performance, Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Database Machines, March 1985.
  36. G. Qadah and K. Irani, Performance Evaluation of the Equi-Join Operation on the MIRDM Database Machine, Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing, August 21-24, 1984, pp. 260-265.
  37. G. Qadah and K. Irani, A Database Machine for Very Large Relational Database, Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing, August 23-26, 1983, pp. 307-314.

Technical Reports

  1. G. Qadah, Computer Architecture for Knowledge Processing. Technical Report No. 87-08-DBM-05, EECS Department, Northwestern University, October 1987.
  2. R. Ester- Mannss and G. Qadah, VLSI Implementable Architectural Support for Relational join Algorithms, Technical Report No. 86/7, Institute for Integrated Systems. ETH, Switzerland, December 1986.
  3. M. Nussbaum and G. Qadah, An Inference Mechanism for large Knowledge- based Systems, Technical Report No. 86/S, Institute for Integrated Systems. ETH, Switzerland, December 1986.
  4. G. Qadah, A Relational Database Machine: Analysis and Design, Ph.D. Dissertation, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The University of Michigan/ Ann Arbor, 1983.
 
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