Research Interests & Activities


RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Visualization (of software, information, program, structure and process)
  • Alternate programming paradigms (natural programming, programming by discovery, domain-oriented programming, OO programming, visual programming, diagrammatic programming, iconic programming)
  • Human-Computer Interactions
  • Web computing and Data Mining
  • Intelligent program diagnosis 
  • Development and engineering of software systems

 
FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS
  • Discovery programming Environments, Sultan Qaboos University, 97-99
  • Intelligent Information Filtering for Internet, Sultan Qaboos University, 97-99
  • IT infrastructure for Oman, 2001-

 
 REFEREEING FOR JOURNALS/CONFERENCES
  • SQU Journal of Science & Technology
  • IEE Journal (Proceedings) on Software
  • Kuwait Journal of Science & Engineering
  • IEEE International Conference on Computers, Networks and Systems
  • International Conference on AI (IC-AI’99), USA, June 1999.
  • IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS’95), Jordan.
  • IEEE International Conference on Computers, Communications & Power, Oman, 1996.
  • IEEE International Conference on Computers, Communications & Power, Oman, 1998.
  • International Conference on AI (AI’2001), USA, June 2001.
  • ACS International Conference on Computer Systems, Beirut, June 2001.

 
MEMBERSHIP OF JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARDS
  • Sultan Qaboos University Journal of Science & Technology 96 –

 
EDITING BOOKS/PROCEEDINGS
  • Artificial Intelligence'99. Aradania, H. and Ramadhan, H. (Editors), CSREA Press, USA, 1999, ISBN No.: 1-892512-16-5.

 
MEMBERSHIP OF CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEES
  • IEEE International Conference on Computers, Communications & Power, Oman, 1996.
  • IEEE International Conference on Computers, Communications & Power, Oman, 1998.
  • International Conference on AI (AI’99), USA, June 1999.
  • International Conference on AI (AI’2000), USA, June 2000.
  • International Conference on Internet Computing (IC’99), USA, June 2000.
  • International Conference on AI (AI’2000), USA, June 2001
  • ACS International Conference on Computer Systems, Beirut, June 2001.

 
 CHAIRING OF CONFERENCES & TECHNICAL SESSIONS
  • General Chair, ACM International Conference on Computer Arabization & Pattern Recognition,  Oman, March 2001.
  • Chair, Technical Session on Intelligent Applications, IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS’95).
  • Chair, Technical Session on Computer Applications, IEEE International Conference on Computers, Communications & Power, Oman, 1996.
  • Chair, Technical Session on Computer Simulation, IEEE International Conference on Computers, Communications & Power, Oman, 1998.
  • Chair, Technical Session on AI Applications, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI’99), USA, June 1999.
  • Chair, Technical Session on Computer Simulation,  IEE/IEEE International Conference on Computers, Communications & Power, Oman, 2001