Research
Conference Details
Overview
Committees
Keynote Speakers
Industry Session
Final Manuscript Submission
Student Poster Competition
Registration
Travel and Accommodation
Overview
ICMSAO17
Overview
The ICMSAO final program is available in this link.
Over the past decade, ICMSAO conferences have been held in
the UAE, Malaysia, Tunisia and Turkey. ICMSAO'17 will be held in the UAE to
provide a venue for engineers and scientists from all over the world to share
their latest research results in the areas of modeling, simulation and
optimization. The conference will be held in conjunction with the 11th
International Conference on Composite Science and Technology (ICCST/11).
Prospective authors are invited to submit original work related to, but not limited to, the following
topics. A student poster competition is also
included as part of the conference. IEEE and the IEEE UAE
Section are technical sponsors of the conference.
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Artificial Intelligence |
Indusrial Enginnering/Engineering Systems |
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Biomedical Engineering |
Mechanical Engineering |
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Chemical Engineering |
Applied Mathematics |
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Computer Engineering |
Statistics and |
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Civil Engineering |
Mathematical Modeling |
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Electrical Engineering |
Combinatorics and |
Submission Procedure
Prospective authors should submit either a two-page
extended abstract or a full paper (five
pages maximum) using the two-column IEEE conference template to an appropriate track using the EDAS online submission system
available through this link. Accepted papers
will be published in the conference proceedings.
Full papers presented at the conference will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for
indexing.
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Notification of acceptance of |
January 15, 2017 |
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Submission of camera ready |
February 15, 2017 |
If you have any question then please send an email to icmsao@aus.edu
Sponsors
Technical Sponsor, IEEE and IEEE-UAE Section
In Cooperation with
Previous ICMSAO Conferences: www.icmsao.org
Committees
Conference Chairs
Mohamed El-Tarhuni, American
University of Sharjah, UAE
Hana Sulieman, American
University of Sharjah, UAE
Technical Program
Committee
TPC Chairs
Assim Sagahyroon, American
University of Sharjah, UAE
Taher Abualrub, American
University of Sharjah, UAE
Track Chairs
Artificial
Intelligence
Mohammad Jaradat, American University
of Sharjah, UAE
Ashraf Saleem, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Biomedical
Engineering
Hasan Al-Nashash, American University
of Sharjah, UAE
Awad Al-Zaben, Yarmouk University,
Jordan
Chemical Engineering
Paul Nancarrow, American University of
Sharjah, UAE
Denis Ring, University College Cork, Ireland
Computer Engineering
Raafat Aburukba, American University of
Sharjah, UAE
Weiming Shen, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Civil Engineering
Rami Haweeleh, American University of
Sharjah, UAE
Murat Tanarslan, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey
Electrical
Engineering
Hasan Mir, American University of
Sharjah, UAE
Kainam Wong, Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, Hong Kong
Indusrial Enginnering/Engineering Systems
Management
Malik Ndiaye, American University of
Sharjah, UAE
Said Salhi, University of Kent, United Kingdom
Mechanical
Engineering
Maen Alkhader, American University of
Sharjah, UAE
T. Venkatesh, Stony Brook University,
USA
Applied
Mathematics
Marwan Abukhaled, American University
of Sharjah, UAE
Statistics
and Probability
Shou-Hsing Shih, American University of
Sharjah, UAE
Alberto Gandolfi, New York University
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Mathematical Modeling and Simulations
Youssef Belhamadia, American University
of Sharjah, UAE
Peter Minev, University of Alberta,
Canada
Combinatorics and Discrete Mathematics
Taher Abualrub, American University of Sharjah, UAE
Irfan Siap, Yildiz Technical
University, Turkey
Publicity Chairs
Jamal Abdalla, American University of
Sharjah, UAE
Hussain Al-Ahmad, Khalifa University,
UAE
Kutsi Erduran, Nigde University, Turkey
Publication Chair
Mahmoud Ibrahim, American University of
Sharjah, UAE
Web and IT
Aniss Zakaria, American
University of Sharjah, UAE
Steering Committee
Jamal Abdalla (UAE)
Mahmoud Anabtawi (UAE)
Mohamed El-Tarhuni (UAE)
Ismail Kucuk (Turkey)
Hana Sulieman (UAE)
Keynote Speakers
Towards Social Computers
Professor
Eric Postma
Cognitive Science & AI
Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS)'s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
Fuelled by the sheer volumes of data and
computing power, the rapidly progressing developments in artificial
intelligence and machine learning led to recognition algorithms with
unprecedented performances. Current image recognition performances are nearing
a level approaching that of human performance. On some specialised domains,
computers even outperform humans in image recognition abilities. The impressive
developments enable a next step in the integration of computers and computing
devices in our everyday world. In order to achieve a seamless integration of
computers in our daily life, computers should be able to communicate in a
human-like manner. The long-standing challenge to achieve human-level verbal
communication, i.e., speech recognition and speech production, obscured the
importance of its non-verbal counterpart. Non-verbal communication is crucial
to the social interactions between humans. Examples of nonverbal expressions
are vocal expression, such as vocal pitch or intensity, and facial expressions
such as smiling or frowning. Nonverbal expressions provide indispensable
contextual cues to social interactions. Our research focusses on the
understanding, modelling and simulation of the interactive nonverbal dynamics
of communicating humans, with the aim to develop computers, robots or
intelligent agents with social capabilities. We formalise the nonverbal
interactions between human-human or human-computer dyads in terms of dynamical
systems theory. In this formalisation, dyadic nonverbal communication gives
rise to an attractor manifold representing the complex expression dynamics of
both interlocutors. This allows us to study and simulate the causal
interactions between communicating faces and voices by means of the powerful
tools offert by dynamical systems theory. The result is a characterisation of
the dynamical building blocks of nonverbal communication. In the presentation
the results obtained will be demonstrated and their contribution to the
development of social computers will be explained by means of illustrative
examples.
Biography
Eric Postma is a professor in Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University, The Netherlands and at the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS) in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. His main research interest is in computational models of vision and in the analysis of vocal and facial social signals. In addition, he works on a wide variety of data science problems involving signal and image processing. His seminal work on the automatic recognition of paintings ("artist attribution") initiated in collaboration with the Van Gogh museum in The Netherlands gave rise to an international joint effort to develop digital methods to the analysis of art works. His work has been often covered in the international media. Professor Postma has published papers in international scientific journals ranging from cognitive science to artificial intelligence. He was Editor-in-Chief of special issues of the journals Pattern Recognition Letters and Signal Processing. In most of his work, the combination of (mainly visual) sensing and machine learning plays an important role. He supervised over 20 PhD students on topics such as intelligent agents, image recognition, painting analysis, social signal processing, manifold learning, and deep learning. Professor Postma is a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, leads the Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence group at Tilburg University, and is a member of the scientific core group of the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.
Industry Session
Rapid Simulation capabilities for Aerospace and Defense
Diogo Rodrigues
Analytical Graphics Inc.
Complex, autonomous and interdependent systems have become ubiquitous in our daily lives. As levels of complexity, autonomy and interdependency increase so does the need to augment the traditional Research, Design, Testing and Evaluation (RDTE) process with state-of-the-art collaborative engineering processes and technologies. By no means is this a straightforward process, but it can be done effectively and systematically through the use of rapid simulation tools aimed to validate architectures, subsystems working together and likely operational scenarios. Rapid Simulation will allow for insightful understanding of each potential solution, adequate mapping of the failure modes and potential courses of action. These technologies can also help find optimum solutions in complex trade spaces in a short amount of time since they can be put to work uninterruptedly. This presentation aims to cover the benefits such capabilities applied to aerospace and defense systems and highlight how they can be used across the entire program lifecycle.
Biography
Diogo Rodrigues is General Manager, LASS TECH Consulting. After working eight
years for AGI managing the European, South American and Middle Eastern Markets,
Rodrigues founded LASS TECH
Consulting, which aims to provide technical and commercial consultancy services
for innovative companies seeking to establish a solid presence in the Middle
East. LASS TECH Consulting is also the Master Representative for AGI in the
Middle East. Besides bringing diverse experience in the aerospace and defense market,
Rodrigues has also introduced
COTS technology to several new customers, explored new use cases and helped
organizations fully leverage from the benefits of using COTS technology. Prior
to AGI, Rodrigues conducted space
mission analysis work for the European Space Operations Center (ESOC), NASA's
Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and Dassault Aviation. Rodrigues holds a Master of Science in Space Studies from the
International Space University (ISU) in Strasbourg and an aerospace engineering
degree from Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisbon.
Platform-based Approach to Engineering and Science Applications
Leen Adnan
National Instruments, UAE
In this presentation, we will introduce a development environment designed specifically to accelerate the productivity of engineers and scientists using LabVIEW. The development environment allows engineers and scientists to provide solutions to the most challenging problems, taking them from simulation to implementation. Applications in various industries will be presented, highlighting some technical case studies in fields such as robotics, power, structural health, oil and gas, etc.
Biography
Leen Adnan graduated from the American
University of Beirut with a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering
and a minor in Biomedical Engineering. Leen started with National Instrument
(NI) as an applications engineer, gained technical experience in NI platforms
and various industries, and now she is working as a field engineer based in the
UAE.
Final Manuscript Submission
To submit the
final manuscript paper, please click here
Student Poster Competition
ICMSAO'17 will include a student poster competition. Certificates
will be awarded for the best three posters. Students are invited to submit
their research or project work related to the following topics.
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Artificial Intelligence |
Engineering Systems |
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Biomedical Engineering |
Mechanical Engineering |
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Chemical Engineering |
Applied Mathematics |
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Computer Engineering |
Statistics and |
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Civil Engineering |
Mathematical Modeling |
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Electrical Engineering |
Combinatorics and |
Please submit a two-page paper in two-column format to one of
the organizers, according to the track of your poster.
Engineering Track: Dr. Maher Bakri Kassem (mbakrikassem@aus.edu)
Math Track: Dr. Amjad Toufaha (atufaha@aus.edu)
Deadline for submission of full paper (extended): December 3, 2016
Note that papers submitted to the conference do not qualify for
the poster competition.
Registration
- At least one author must register with the conference by March 1, 2017.
- For authors presenting multiple papers, one FULL registration is valid for up to two papers. Authors with more than two papers need to register for each extra paper separately on EDAS at a fee of $200 per extra paper.
- To register for the conference, please go to EDAS, click on the My Papers button. Click on the link labeled Registration and follow the instructions. Note that to get the IEEE or SIAM membership discount you need to updated your profile on EDAS and provide your membership number.
- Payments are accepted using credit cards, PayPal or wire transfer (through EDAS). Note that wire transfer charges need to be covered by the author.
Registration fees covers access to all
conference activities (excluding tutorials), coffee breaks and banquet dinner.
Author Registration Fees
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Registration |
Early Registration |
Late Registration |
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IEEE or SIAM Member |
$400 |
$500 |
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Non-Member |
$500 |
$600 |
Authors are
encouraged to take advantage of the early registration rates and complete their
paper registrations by February 8, 2017. However, registration will be open for
authors until March 1, 2017. At
least one author must register at the regular rate even if the paper is
presented by a student. Registration fees cover up two papers;
authors with three or more accepted papers will be required to pay $200 for
registering each additional paper. The registration fees cover access to both
ICMSAO and ICCST sessions, the gala dinner, a conference
bag and the proceedings.
Non-Author Registration Fees
Non-author registration will be open until and
throughout the conference duration.
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IEEE or SIAM Member |
$400 |
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Non-Member |
$500 |
Student Registration Fees:
Students are offered a reduced registration
rate but they need to show a proof of enrollment as a student.
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Student - IEEE Member |
$200 |
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Student - Non-IEEE Member |
$250 |
Travel and Accommodation
Travel and Visa Information
Sharjah
International Airport is a short drive from
the conference venue at American University of Sharjah (AUS), taking approximately seven minutes by taxi. AUS
is about about 20 minutes from downtown
Sharjah. If you are traveling through Dubai International Airport, it will take about 25 minutes to get to the AUS campus and also to downtown
Sharjah, assuming normal traffic conditions. Abu Dhabi International Airport is
a two-hour drive from Sharjah.
More
information about Sharjah is available at http://sharjahtourism.ae.
Visa Arrangements
Before you travel to the UAE,
please check your visa requirements and make sure you have a valid visa if
needed. Different airlines and travel agencies can arrange for a UAE visa, so
please check online for different offers. AUS has an agreement with the
following travel agency if you wish to make a visa arrangement through them.
You must submit the required information
below as early as possible to avoid any delays. Please coordinate with the
agency directly and mention that you are coming to the ICMSAO conference
organized by AUS. Please note we are not
involved in the visa process, so please
contact the agency directly.
Name of Agency: Sina Star Tourist
Agency
Contact Person: Mr.
Ali Al Hoti, Manager
Mobile: +971 50 422 4 113
Email: sinastartourismllc@gmail.com
The requirements are:
- a clear passport copy
with six-month validity on the date of
travel - a passport photograph
on white backgroundan invitation letter
from the conference (We can provide this
letter for presenters and their accompanying family members but you need to
inform us no later than February 20, 2017.) - AED 350 visa fee (AUS special rate to be paid directly to the agency)
