• Name: Nadim Obeid
  • Education:

FACULTY VITAE

Degree / Discipline / Institution / Year
PhD / Computer Science / University of Essex, England, UK. / 1987
MSc / Computer Studies / University of Essex, England, UK. / 1983
Diploma / Programming and Microprocessor applications / University of Essex, England, UK. / 1982
BSc / Business Administration (Accountancy and Finance) / Lebanese University, Lebanon / 1980
BSc / Mathematics / Lebanese University, Lebanon / 1979
  • AcademicExperience

Institution / Rank / Title / DatesHeld / FT/PT
The University of Jordan / Professor / Professor / Feb 2004-now / FT
The University of Jordan / Dean, KASIT / August 2010-September 2012 / FT
The University of Jordan / Vice Dean / September 2009-September 2010 / FT
The University of Jordan / Chair of Business Information Systems Department / September 2010-September 2011 / FT
Princess Sumaya University for Technology / Professor / 2002-2004 / FT
Princess Sumaya University for Technology / Associate Professor / 1998-2002 / FT
Princess Sumaya University for Technology / Assistant Professor / September 1996-1998 / FT
University of Essex / Lecturer (Assistant professor) / October 1987-September 1996 / FT
University of Essex / Senior Research Officer / November 1986-October 1987 / FT
  • Non-AcademicExperience

Organization / Title / Duties / Dates / FT/PT
  • Certifications or professional registrations
  • Current membership in professional organizations
  • Honors and awards:

Winner of the Best Paper of the Year Award, Logic in Artificial Intelligence & Industrial Applications: Part II, International Journal of COMADEM, 2002.

Winner of the Best Paper of the Year Award, Logic in Artificial Intelligence & Industrial Applications: Part I, International Journal of COMADEM, 2001.

A Grant to study for a Ph.D. in UK or USA, Economics, Accountancy, Finance and Statistics)

Faculty of Business Administration, Lebanese University, 1981.

A Grant to study for a Ph.D. in Computer Science in UK, Faculty of Sciences,Lebanese University, 1980.

A Grant to study for a Doctorate 3ieme cycle in France, Application of Information Technology in Business Administration, French Embassy,Beirut, Lebanon, 1981.

  • Service activities:(within and outside of the institution)

Coordinator of an accreditation committee for a PhD program in Computer science in Princess Sumaya University for technology, Jordan Accreditation Comission, 2015.

Member of the Communication and Information Technology Committee, Scientific Research Support Fund, May 2015-Date

Member of the International Program Committee for the First International Conference onCloud Computing, 2013.

Member of the Advisory Committee for the 5th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT2013), 2013.

Member of the Communication and Information Technology Committee, Scientific Research Support Fund, Jordan, 2010-2012

Member of the International Program Committee for the International Conference onComputational Intelligence and Bioinformatics (CIB), 2011.

Member of the International Program Committee for IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies, (AEECT), 2011

Regional Publicity Chair, International Conference on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2011.

Track Chair, Artificial Intelligence and Agent Technologies, International Conference on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2011.

Member of the Technical Program Committee of the International Conference on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2011.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Frontiers and Beyond in Information Technology (FBIT), Jordan 2011.

Accreditation Committee Member for the Computer Engineering and Computer Science Programs at Jordan Universities, Jordan Accreditation Commission, 2011-2012.

Coordinator of an accreditation committee for general accreditation of Philadelphia University, Jordan Accreditation Commission, 2011.

Member of IT programs accreditation-guidelines committee, Jordan Accreditation Commission, 2011.

Member of ICT Strategy in Higher Education committee, Jordan Accreditation Commission, 2010-2012.

Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Universal Computer Science, 2010-date.

Member of the Editorial Board, I-Business, 2010-2014

Member of the Review Board, Applied Intelligence, 2009-Date.

Member of the academic and Technical committee for the initiation of the Aqaba Branch, The University of Jordan, 2009.

Member of the Technical Committee of the International Arab Journal of e-Technology (IAJeT), 2010-Date.

Member/Coordinator in several accreditation committees for several B.Sc programs in Computer science, software engineering and computer graphics in Private Universities, Jordan Accreditation Comission, 2007-Date.

Member/Coordinator in several accreditation committees for several MSc programs in Computer science, security in Private Universities, Jordan Accreditation Comission, 2007-Date.

Member of IT programs accreditation-guidelines committee, 2007.

Coordinator/Member of several councils and committees, The University of Jordan,2004-Now.

Coordinator/Member of several councils and committees at King Abdullah School for information Technology, The University of Jordan, 2004-Date.

Coordinator/Member of several councils and committees in the Department of Computer Information Systems, King Abdullah School for information Technology, The University of Jordan, 2004-Date

Member of the IASTED Technical Committee on Intelligent Systems and Control, 2004-2009.

Member of the IASTED Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence, 2004-2010.

Member of the International Advisory Committee, 17th COMADEM International Conference, 2004, Cambridge, UK.

Member of the Program Committee, 2004 International Business Information Management Conference, 2004.

Member of the program committee, Mathematics and Computers in Business and Economics MBCE2000, 2000.

Member of the program Committee, First Southern Conference on Computing, 1998.

Chairman of sessions in many International Conferences

  • Publications: (Briefly list the most important publications and presentations from the past five years – title, co-authors if any, where published and/or presented, date of publication or presentation)

1. Khair Eddin Sabri and Nadim Obeid, (2015), A temporal defeasible logic for handling access control policies, Applied Intelligence, (In Press).

2. Bassam Hammo, Nadim Obeid, Israa Huzzayen, (2015), ViStA: a visualization system for exploring Arabic text, International Journal of Speech Technology, 2015, (In press)

3. Asma Moubaiddin, Ola Shalbak, Bassam Hammo and Nadim Obeid, (2015), Arabic dialogue system for hotel reservation based on natural language processing techniques, Computacion y Sistemas, Vol. 19, No. 1, 119-134.

4. Bassam Hammo, Asma Moubaiddin, Nadim Obeid and Abeer Tuffaha, (2014), Formal Description of Arabic Syntactic Structure in the Framework of the Government and Binding Theory, Computacion y Sistemas, Vol. 18, No. 3, 611-625

5. Asma Moubaiddin and Nadim Obeid, (2013), On Formalizing Social Commitments in Dialogue and Argumentation Models using Temporal Defeasible Logic, Knowledge and Information Systems, Vol. 37, No. 2, 417-452.

6. Asma Moubaiddin, Fatmeh Shawarbeh and Nadim Obeid, (2013), Using Intelligent Agents in e-Learning, Information, Vol. 16, No. 10, 7325-7342.

7. Nadim Obeid and Samih Al-Areqi, (2013), Using Agents for Dynamic Components Redeployment and Replication in Distributed Systems, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 489, 19-25.

8. Heba Al-Juaidy, Lina Abu Jaradeh, Duha Qutaishat, and Nadim Obeid, (2013), On Representing and Sharing Knowledge in Collaborative Problem Solving, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 489, 61-66.

9. Asma Moubaiddin, Abeer Tufaha, Bassam Hammo and Nadim Obeid, Investigating the Syntactic Structure of Arabic Sentences, 1st International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications (ICCSPA'13), IEEE, 2013.

10. Nadim Obeid, Israa Huzayyen and Bassam Hammo, Experimenting with Arabic Text Visualizing, 1st International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications (ICCSPA'13), IEEE, 2013.

11. Bassam Hammo, Faisal Al-Shargi, Sane Yagi, Nadim Obeid, Developing tools for Arabic corpus for researchers, Second Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-2), Lancaster University, UK, 2013.

12. Mahran Al-Zyoud, Imad Salah, Nadim Obeid, Towards a Model of Context Awareness Using Web Services, Computational Collective Intelligence. Technologies and Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 7654, 2012, pp 121-131.

13. Samih Al-Areqi, Amjad Hudaib and Nadim Obeid, (2011), Improving Availability in Distributed Component-Based Systems via Replication, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 351, 43-52

14. Marwan Altawil, Asma Moubaiddin and Nadim Obeid, (2011), Towards an Agent-Based Knowledge Management System, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 363, 95-100

15. Nadim Obeid and Raj B. K. N. Rao, (2010), On Integrating Event Definition and Event Detection, Knowledge and Information Systems,Vol.22, No.2, 129-158. DOI: 10.1007/s10115-009-0193-3.

16. Nadim Obeid andAsma Moubaiddin, (2010), Towards a Formal Model of Knowledge Sharing in Complex Systems, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 260, 53-82.

  • Professional development activities (Briefly list the most recent)