Preliminary Programme MESM'2012-GAMEON-ARABIA'2012, December 10-12, 2012, AOU, Muscat, Oman

Dear Colleague,

Please find enclosed the preliminary
programme for the Annual Middle Eastern Simulation
and Modelling Multiconference MESM'2012/ annual
Middle Eastern AI in Computer Games Conference-
GAMEON-ARABIA'2012, which will be held at Arab
Open University, Muscat, Oman from December 10-12, 2012.

Conference links are on:
http:/www.eurosis.org
http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/2211
and
http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/2237

Non-Author registration is open on November 12th

Regards
Philippe

Preliminary Programme

Session Timing

December 10
08.00-17.00 Registration
08.45-09.15 Welcome
09.15-10.00 Invited Speaker
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.30 Session
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Session
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-17.30 Tutorial
18.00-20.00 FREE EVENING

December 11
08.30-17.00 Registration
09.00-10.00 Invited Speaker
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.30 Session
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Session
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-18.30 Tutorial
20.00-23.00 Conference Dinner

December 12
08.30-09.00 Registration
09.00-10.00 Session
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.30 Session
12.30-12.45 Closing Session and Best Paper Award

Keynote Speeches

Gamification in Dubai Police: Opportunities & Challenges
Lt.Col. Dr. Ahmed Bin Subaih, Director of Virtual Applications Development Center, General Department of Human Resources, Dubai Police General H.Q.

Modelling Culture: An overview of attempts to model aspects of human culture and history
Ken Newman, HTC, Abu Dhabi

Tutorials

Parametric Modeling of Ultrasonic signals in Nondestructive Testing applications in Oil & Gas industry
Uvais Qidwai, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Modeling ECG and EEG signals for possible Classification applications
Uvais Qidwai, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Autodesk Maya software and the workflow in 3D content design
Muqeem Khan, Northwestern University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar

SESSIONS

DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION

MESM_METH_01
Load Balancing and Resource Allocation in Distributed Simulation Systems

Giuseppe Iazeolla and Alessandra Pieroni, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

MESM_AI_03
Intelligent Agent Vs. Non Intelligent Agent in Grid Computing Based on Multi-unit Auction

R. Arfa and J. Broechove, University of Antwerp and P. Hellinckx, Karel de Grote University College, Antwerp, Belgium

INDUSTRIAL SIMULATION

MESM_TEL_01
Phase Quantization Effects on the Radiation of MEMS Based Reconfigurable Reflect Arrays

Hassan Salti, Arab Open University, Kuwait Branch, Kuwait, Erwan Fourn and Raphael Gillard, IETR, INSA of Rennes, Rennes Cedex and Hervé Legay, Thales Alenia Space, Toulouse Cedex 1, France

MESM_IND_01
Finite Element Simulation of Material Flow in Friction Stir Welding of Copper

Hamed Pashazadeh, Abolfazl Masoumi and Jamal Teimournezhad, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

NETWORKING

MESM_TEL_06
Trust Based Reliable and Secure Routing in Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks

Raja Waseem Anwar and Farah Abu Shahla, Arab Open University and Saqib Ali, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

MESM_TEL_05
Characterizing the Scheduling Algorithms in IEEE 802.16

Farah Abu Shahla and Raja Waseem Anwar, Arab Open University, Muscat, Oman and Mathieu Moussa, Lebanon

IMAGE RECOGNITION

MESM_MED_01
Arabic Words Contour Compression using Trapezoid Method

Ali Ukasha and Fathi Alwafi, University of Sebha, Sebha, Libya

MESM_MED_05
Image Enhancement using 2D Adaptive Techniques

Elsayed. A. Soleit, Rustaq College of Applied Sciences, Ministry of Higher Education Oman

SECURITY SYSTEMS

MESM_MED_02
Simulation of Library Security System Using Iris Scanning

R. Bremananth and Ahmad Sharieh, Sur University College, Sur, Oman

MESM_MED_04
A Robust Technique for Face Recognition using Classifier Ensemble

Marwan Al. Akaidi, A. S. Tolba and H. A. Khan, Arab Open University (AOU), HQ Kuwait

MESM_MED_06
Multi Variant Analysis and validation study on Mastoid Triangle Process for Gender Identification

Janaki Sivakumar, PRIST University, Vallam, Thanjore, TamilNadu, K. Thangavel, Periyar University, Salem and Ammar Yassir, Muscat College Sultanate of Oman

MESM_MED_08
Transport and Mac Cross-Layer Protocol for Video Surveillance over WIMAX

Suherman and Raouf Hamzaoui, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom and Marwan Al-Akaidi, Arab Open University, Safat, Kuwait

INFORMATION PROCESSING

MESM_AI_02
Modelling Behavioural Flexibility: A Dual Controller for a Context-Dependent Reinforcement Learning Paradigm

Oussama H. Hamid, Arab Open University (AOU) - Kuwait Branch, Kuwait

N_01
A proposal of e-Monitoring system of the Online e-TMA (Tutor Marking Assignment) for quality assurance purposes Arab open university’s experience

Haifaa O. Elayyan, Arab Open University, Saudi Arabia

N_02
Concept Based Information Retrieval Using Semantic Analysis

Sherimon P.C and Youssef Saad, Arab Open University, Reshmy Krishnan, Muscat College and Vinu Sherimon, HCT, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

GAMING

GAMEON_AR_01
GLIDE - Towards an Intelligent Kinesthetic Learning Space for Teaching Dance Authors

Penny de Byl and James Birt, Bond University, Australia and Muqeem Khan, Northwestern University in Qata

GAMEON_AR_05
Analysis Of Intelligent Techniques In Games

Rula Al-Azawi, Gulf College, Khalfan Abdullah AL-Masruri, Higher College of Technology, Muscat, Oman and Aladdin Ayesh and Ian Kenny, DMU University, Leicester, United Kingdom

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