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Dr. Hmood Al-Dossari is Associate Professor in College of Computer and Information Sciences at King Saud University. He holds a MS and PhD in Computer Science from King Saud University and Cardiff University respectively. His research interests include quality of service assessment, trust and reputation management systems, human and computer interaction, sentiment analysis and social mining. He has around thirty publications in international journals and conferences. He has attended various conferences and presented many seminars.
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Education |
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from Cardiff University, UK- 2011
Thesis Title “Quality of Service Assessment Over Multiple Attributes”.
Master of Science in Computer Science from King Saud University, Saudi Arabia –2005
Dissertation Title “Applying Extreme Programming in Educational Environments”.
Bachelor of Science in Computer from King Saud University, Saudi Arabia – 1997, With second class honor.
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Honors |
- Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia Cultural Bureau in London Award for outstanding achievement in PhD, January, 2011.
- Second Class Honor in Bachelor degree, 1997
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Employment History |
2017 - Now
Associate Professor [Information Systems Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University]
Worked as Associate Professor to teach information systems courses for the students of information systems department at the college of computer and information sciences in king Saud university.
2014 - 2018 Chairman of Information Systems Department [College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University]
Worked as a chairman of information systems department in college of computer and information sciences at king Saud university.
2013 - Current Assistant Professor [Information Systems Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University]
Worked as assistant professor to teach information systems courses for the students of information systems department at the college of computer and information sciences in king Saud university.
2012 - 2013 Chairman of IT Skills Unit [Preparatory Year Deanship, King Saud University]
Worked as chairman of IT unit in the deanship of preparatory year at king Saud university.
2011 - 2012 Chairman of English Department [Teachers College, King Saud University]
Worked as chairman of English department in teachers college.
2011 - 2013 Assistant Professor [Computer Sciences Department, Teachers College, King Saud University]
Worked as assistant professor to teach computer courses at the department of computer sciences in teachers college.
2006 - 2007 Head of Saudi School [Cardiff, United Kingdom]
Worked as head of Saudi school at Cardiff in the united kingdom (voluntary job).
2005 - 2011 Lecturer [King Saud University, Saudi Arabia]
Worked as lecturer at King Saud University.
2001 - 2005 Teaching Assistant [Dept. of Computer Sc, Teachers College, Saudi Arabia]
Worked as teaching assistant to teach computer courses for students of teachers college in ministry of education.
1999 - 2001 Teaching Assistant [King Faisal Academy, Saudi Arabia]
Worked as teaching assistant to teach computer courses for students of King Faisal Academy in ministry of defense.
1998 - 1999 Software Developer [Ministry of Labor, Saudi Arabia]
Worked as Software developer, was part of the development team responsible for software development in IT department at ministry of labor.
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Work Experience
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- A member of Yasser program for e-government services.
- A reviewer to evaluate and assess Information Systems Bachelor program in Prince Norah University.
- A member of Postgraduate Committee at Information Systems Department.
- Head of Master Committee at Information Systems Department.
- Head of Quality Committee at Information Systems Department.
- A member of research assistant affairs committee at Information Systems Department.
- A member of excellent graduate students committee at Information Systems Department.
- A member of continuous improvement committee at Information Systems Department.
- Consultant to National Center for Assessment in Higher Education (Qiyas).
- Consultant to College of Computation and Informatics in Saudi Electronic University.
- Coordinator of Master of Information Security program in Saudi Electronic University.
- Consultant to Deanship of Preparatory Year to supervise IT Skills teaching.
- A member of developing curriculum for IT skills in the self-development Department in Preparatory Year Deanship at King Saud University.
- Coordinator of graduation projects in Computer Department at Teachers College.
- Director of Quality Assurance Unit in Computer Department at Teachers College.
- Academic advisor for students of Computer Department at Teachers College.
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Training Courses |
- Training Course: Machine Learning for Big Data and Text Processing, in MIT, Boston, June 2015
- Training Tutorial: Exploring the Intersection of Theory and Engineering: Universal Laws, Architecture, and SDN, SIGCOMM Chicago, August 2014.
- Training Tutorial: Teaching Computer Networking with Mininet, SIGCOMM Chicago, August 2014.
- Training course in using technology in education, Waterloo University, Canda, June 2014.
- Training course for improving teaching skills in Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2013.
- Workshop titled: “Invention to venture” in joint with 22nd International Conference on Management of Technology, Porto Alegre, April 2013.
- Training course in Micro Teaching "Application Discussions”, King Saud University, 2012.
- Training course in Student Assessment Classroom Management, King Saud University, 2012.
- Training course in Effective Teaching and Management System, King Saud University, 2012.
- Training course in Course Design and Construction, King Saud University, 2012.
- Training course for the new faculty members at King Saud University, 2011
- How to write and publish research paper, Cardiff University 2009.
- Time management course, Cardiff University, 2006.
- Java Programming Language 2004.
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Conferences and Seminars
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- Attended The 18th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 14-18, 2015
- Attended the 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Orlando, Florida, November 3-7, 2014
- Attended the International conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, May 2014.
- Attended the 2nd Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS-13), October 2013.
- Attended the International Conference on Information Resources Management (Conf-IRM), May 2013. (Presented the published paper)
- Attended the International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (ICHCI), March 2013. (Presented the published paper)
- Attended the IEEE International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices, Sao Carlos, Nov 2012. (Presented the published paper)
- Attended the International Conference on Forensic Computer Science, Brasilia, Sep 2012.
- Attended the 10th world congress on computational mechanics, Sao Paulo, July 2012.
- Attended the IEEE International Conference on Service Oriented Computing and Applications, Perth December 2010. (Chaired of Service Discovery session) (Presented the published paper)
- Attended the 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, Bradford, July 2010. (Presented the published paper)
- Attended the 26th British National Conference on Databases, Birmingham July 2009. (Presented the published paper)
- Presented nearly five seminars at the Department of Computer Science at Cardiff University, 2006-2011.
- Presented seminar titled: “Extracting Knowledge from Large amount of Data” in the Saudi club - Cardiff, 2008.
- Presented seminar in Computer Department at Teachers College, titled: “Applying Extreme Programming in Educational Environment”, 2005.
- Presented seminar in Computer Department at Teachers College, titled: “Quality Management”, 2004.
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Research Interest
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- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
- Data Science
- Big Data Analytics
- Data Goveranace
- Machine Learning
- Reputation and Trust Management Systems
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Internet of Things (IoT) |
Research Groups
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A member of following research groups:
- Information Systems Engineering
- Big Data
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Projects
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- Intelligent software engineering techniques to monitor and improve the quality of software development and managing the productivity of the developers – Joint project with Deakin University in Australia
- Standard-based Service Selection, Sponsored by King Saud University – Raid Project
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Courses Taught
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Undergraduate Courses:
- System Analysis and Design
- Object Oriented Programming
- Database
- Algorithms
Postgraduate Courses:
- Software Project Management and Quality assurance
- Software Testing and Quality Control
- Advanced Topics in Database
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Projects Supervision
Thesis Supervision |
Bachelor projects:
- Web Accessibility for impaired students
- Privacy concerns with Social Networks
- Marketing over Social Networks
- Using computer capabilities to protect consumers
- Usability evaluation of King Saud University academic portal
Master Projects:
- Building Word Graphs from Social Media to Support Decision-Making
- Solving Connected Data Problems by Graph Databases
- PricePoints: A System for Aiding Consumers with Grocery Market Shopping
- Crimes Detection and Classification in Twitter
- Content-based Ranking for user protection in Social Networks
- A new algorithm for group spam detection in Twitter
Master Research Supervision:
- Monitoring Prayer using mobile phone accelerometer - (Reem Alghnam)- Graduated
- A Computational Model of Reputation based on Sentiment Analysis of Arabic tweets in Twitter – (Haifa Alhussaini) Graduated
- A new approach for Group Spam Detection in Social Media for Arabic Language – (Njood Alashban) Graduated
- A Personalized Food Advisory System for Chronic Disease Patients - (Amr Salah)
- Improving Human-Computer Interaction for illiterate Users - (Rawan Althemali)
PhD Research Supervision:
- A Semantic Selection of Quality Control Mechanism for Crowdsourced Tasks - (Reham Alabduljabbar)
- Effective Technique For Opinion Mining For Arabic Text In Social Media – (Adel Saad)
- Identifying Big Five Personality Traits - (Dina AlHammadi)
- Development of a Framework for Academic Social Networks Analysis - (Hailah AlBalaa)
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Publications
Publications
Publications
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- Hailah Al-Ballaa, Hmood Al-Dossari, Azeddine Chikh. Using an Exponential Random Graph Model Recommend Academic Collaborators. In Information, Volume 10, June 2019
- Reham Alabdualjabar, Hmood Al-Dossari. A Dynamic Selection Approach for Quality Control Mechanisms in Crowdsourcing. In IEEE Access, Volume 7, April 2019 (ISI-indexed Journal)
- Hmood Al-Dossari. دور البيانات الضخمة في التنمية الإدارية: الفرص والتحديات. مؤتمر التنمية الإدارية في ضوء رؤية المملكة 2030. P 369 – 385, March 2019
- Areej Al-Hassan, Hmood Al-Dossari. Sentiment A Detection of Hate Speech in Social Networks: A Survey on Multilingual Corpus. In 6th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology. February 2019
- Rahma Alahmary, Hmood Al-Dossari, Ahmed Emam. Sentiment Analysis of Saudi Dialect Using Deep Learning Techniques. In the International Conference on Electronicsm Information, and Communication (ICEIC), IEEE, January 2019
- Hessah Alsaif, Hmood Al-Dossari. Detecting and Classifying Crimes from Arabic Twitter Posts using Text Mining Techniques. In the International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA) - Volume 9 No 10, October 2018
- Shamsul Huda, Kevin Liu, Mohamed Abdelrazek, Amani Ibrahim, Sultan Alyahya, Hmood Al-Dossari, and Shafiq Ahmad. An ensemble oversampling model for class imbalance problem in software defect prediction. In IEEE Access, Volume 6, March 2018 (ISI-indexed Journal)
- Shamsul Huda, Suruz Miah, John Yearwood, Sultan Alyahya, Hmood Al-Dossari, and Robin Doss. A malicious threat detection model for cloud assisted internet of things (CoT) based industrial control system (ICS) networks using deep belief network. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 120, March 2018 (ISI-indexed Journal)
- Shamsul Huda, Sultan Alyahya, Md Mohsin Ali, Shafiq Ahmad, Jemal Abawajy, Hmood Al-Dossari, and John Yearwood. A Framework for Software Defect Prediction and Metric Selection. In IEEE Access, Volume 6, December 2017 (ISI-indexed Journal)
- Hailah Al-Ballaa, Hmood Al-Dossari, Abdulrahman Mirza. Research area classification using Wikipedia and information retrieval. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Internet of Things and Machine Learning, ACM Page 49 – 51, October 2017
- Md Mohsin Ali, Shamsul Huda, Jemal Abawajy,Sultan Alyahya, Hmood Al-Dossari, and John Yearwood. A parallel framework for software defect detection and metric selection on cloud computing. In Cluster Computing, Volume 20, September 2017 (ISI-indexed Journal)
- Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Hanouf Saad Albakr, Hmood Al-Dossari, and Amr Mohamed. Resource Provisioning for Cloud-Assisted Body Area Network in a Smart Home Environment. In IEEE Access, Volume 5, July 2017 (ISI-indexed Journal).
- Hala Bin Saidan, Hmood Al-Dossari. Human Movements Monitoring Using Smartphone Sensors. The 3rd Int'l Conf on Health Informatics and Medical Systems (HIMS'17), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July, 2017
- Rawan Al-Themali, Hmood Al-Dossari. Assessment of Suitability of E-Services for Illiterate Users. 11th International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Lisbon, Portugal, July, 2017
- Hmood Al-Dossari. A Heuristic-Based Approach for Usability Evaluation of Academic Portals. International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology (IJCSIT), June, 2017
- Ali Md Mohsin, Shamsul Huda, Jemal Abawajy, Sultan Alyahya, Hmood Al-Dossari, and John Yearwood. A parallel framework for software defect detection and metric selection on cloud computing. Cluster Computing, May, 2017 (ISI-indexed Journal)
- Haifa Al-Hussaini, Hmood Al-Dossari. A Lexicon-based Approach to build Service Provider Reputation from Arabic tweets in Twitter. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), SAI, May, 2017
- Reham Alabdualjabar, Hmood Al-Dossari. Towards a Classification Model for Tasks in Crowdsourcing. In the second International Conference on Internet of Things, Data and Cloud Computing (ICC'17), ACM , Cambridge, UK, March, 2017
- Adel Assiri, Ahmed Emam, Hmood Al-Dossari. Towards enhancement of a lexicon-based approach for Saudi dialect sentiment analysis. Journal of Information Science, January 2017 (ISI-indexed Journal)
- Reham Alabdualjabar, Hmood Al-Dossari. A Task Ontology-based Model for Quality Control in Crowdsourcing Systems. In Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems (RACS), ACM, Odense, Denmark, October, 2016
- Amr Salah Mahmoud, Hmood Al-Dossari. A Mobile Healthcare Application for Chronic Diseases Patient. Proceedings of SAI Intelligent Systems Conference, Springer 826—838, September 2016
- Reham Alabdualjabar, Hmood Al-Dossari. Ontology for Task and Quality Management in Crowdsourcing. International Journal of Computer (IJC), August 2016
- Reham Alabdualjabar, Hmood Al-Dossari. A Dynamic Model for Quality Control in Crowdsourcing Systems. The 15th International Conference on Information & Knowledge Engineering (IKE'16), Las Vegas, USA, July, 2016
- Reem Al-Ghannam, Hmood Al-Dossari. Prayer Activity Monitoring and Recognition Using Acceleration Features with Mobile Phone. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (2016): 1-13. (ISI-indexed Journal)
- Amr Salah Mahmoud, Hmood Al-Dossari. A Mobile Healthcare Application for Chronic Diseases Patient. In SAI Intelligent Systems Conference, HPCC Systems and Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE, September 2016
- Nujud AlOshban, Hmood Al-Dossari. A New Approach for Group Spam Detection in Social Media for Arabic Language (AGSD). th International Conference on Latest Trends in Engineering and Technology (ICLTET'2016), May, 2016
- Adel Assiri, Ahmed Emam, Hmood Al-Dossari. Saudi Twitter Corpus for Sentiment Analysis. International Journal of Computer, Electrical, Automation, Control and Information Engineering, 2016
- Adel Assiri, Ahmed Emam, Hmood Al-Dossari. Arabic sentiment analysis: A survey. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 6(12), 2015
- Reham Alabdualjabar, Hmood Al-Dossari. Towards developing a task ontology-based model for quality control in crowdsourcing systems. In the 11th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, 2015.
- Reem AlGhanam, Eman Kanjo, Hmood Al-Dossari. Monitoring Prayer Using Mobile Phone Accelermeter. In 6th EAI International Conference on Cloud Computing, South Korea, 2015.
- H. Al-Dossari, M. Al-Yahya, K. Al-Quraini, Y. Al-Qahtani, S. Al-Barrag. PricePoints: A System for Aiding Consumers with Grocery Market Shopping. International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research Volume 4– Issue 11, 810 - 817, 2015.
- Hmood Al-Dossari, Amr Salah Mahmoud. A Personalized Food Advisory System for Chronic Disease Patients. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, 2015.
- Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Hanouf Saad Albakr and Hmood Al-Dossari. A Cloud-Assisted Internet of Things Framework for Pervasive Healthcare in Smart City Environment. In Emerging Multimedia Applications and Services for Smart Cities (EMASC-2014), Novmber 2014.
- H. Al-Dossari, J. Shao. SE+KNN: A Quality of Service Assessment Method to Handle Multiple Attributes. In International conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, May 2014.
- H. Al-Dossari, J. Shao. Modelling Confidence for Quality of Service Assessment in Cloud Computing. International conference on Information Resources Management (Conf-IRM), May 2013.
- H. Al-Dossari. Improving the Usability of Academic Portal Through A Heuristic-based Approach. International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (ICHCI), March 2013.
- H. Al-Dossari. A Reputation-based Approach for Consumer Protection in Saudi Arabia. In IEEE International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practises, November 2012.
- H. Al-Dossari, J. Shao, A. Preece. Improving QoS Assessment over Multiple Attributes with Asynchronous Data. International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering (IJCSSE). CRL Publisher, 2012. (ISI-indexed Journal)
- H. Al-Dossari. QoS Assessment over Multiple Attributes. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University, 2011.
- H. Al-Dossari, J. Shao, A. Preece. Handling Asynchronous Data in Assessing QoS over Multiple Attributes. In IEEE International Conference on Service Oriented Computing and Application (SOCA 2010), pp 1-8. IEEE, 2010.
- H. Al-Dossari, J. Shao, A. Preece. QoS Assessment over Multiple Attributes. In IEEE 10th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT2010), pp 1456-1461. IEEE, 2010.
- H. Al-Dossari, A. Preece, J. Shao. Improving QoS Assessment Involving Multiple Attributes. In 26th British National Conference on Databases PhD Forum (BNCOD 2009). Birmingham, 2009.
- Hassan I. Mathkour, Hatim A. Aboalsamh, Hmood Al Dossari, Ghazy M. R. Assassa. An Empirical Study of The Use Of Extreme Programming In Software Engineering Education. In Engineering Research Journal, Facilty Of Engineering, Menoufiya University, Jan. 2008.
- Ghazy Assassa, Hassan Mathkour, Hmood Al Dossari. Extreme programming: A case study in software engineering courses. Proceedings of the 1st National Information Technology Symposium, NITS, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, pp. 233-240, 2006.
- H. Al-Dossari. Applying extreme programming in educational environment. Master Thesis, King Saud University, January 2005.
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