Amine Bitar

Amine Bitar
University of Balamand | UOB · Department of Computer Science

PhD

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The increase in the number of institutions offering degrees in interdis ciplinary computing raises a set of questions at the epistemological level. A set of questions is raised: is any integration of computing with some other field a representation of interdisciplinarity? What are the limits of enabling? What are the requirements of integration? Do...
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This research starts by defining internet governance issues that can serve as model to evaluate the contribution of the Lebanese universities in the related processes. An investigation into the deliverables of research at these universities is carried. A conclusion including a proposal to alleviate this contribution is presented.
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Students, as Internet users, expect quality results in terms of relevance, format and response time, and are more concerned about quality than quantity. On the other hand, the main goal of the search engine system is to retrieve information which is supposed to be relevant to the student's request in the shortest time possible. New techniques in th...
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Search engines are used to serve the searching activity of the users. While most of the search engines are designed primarily to operate on information expressed in English, the interest of is increasing in the other languages with the increase in the non-English speaking users. Arabic comes among the first 10 languages in the world in terms of the...
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An estimated 87% of university students rely on Social Networking Sites (SNSs) in their daily communications, like sharing ideas, events, discussions and social activities. Some universities have adopted open source SNSs as a communication tool for teaching to improve students' academic performance and increases institutional revenues. This paper d...
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An estimated 87% of university students rely on Social Networking Sites (SNSs) in their daily social activities. Some universities have adopted open source SNSs in teaching. This paper discusses the benefits of using open source SNSs, especially Elgg, in teaching health informatics. It is organized as follows: 1) A literature review to define open...
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Recently, open source social networking sites have been widely used by institutions as an interactive mean to build community skills, provide teachers and students with online interactive learning opportunities, and improve students' academic performance. In Lebanon, some institutions have adopted learning management systems (like Moodle, Elgg…) as...
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Social computing systems such as Social Network Sites have become more powerful. In some universities, SNSs have been adopted as a communication method between teachers and students. In addition, educational institutions have started the initiative of using open source social networking application. This chapter discusses the benefits of adopting o...
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Human-to-Human communication has changed in the last few years. Social networking sites have been used by university students and teachers in their daily communication. Additionally, these tools provide institutions and organizations with an interactive mean to build community skills. In particular, open source social networks have a lot of feature...
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Recently, social computing systems such as Social Network Sites (SNSs) have become more powerful across Human-to-Human interaction. An estimated 80% of university students rely on such SNSs in their daily communications, like internet surfing, discussions and social activities. In some universities, social networks have been adopted as a communicat...
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Language is a vehicle to support knowledge representation and transfer. Accordingly, people rely on language to share their knowledge. The fact that knowledge sharing is a major activity in knowledge management implies that language has a major role to play in this process. In the case of Lebanon, a majority of enterprises, of different natures, ut...
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Students, as Internet users, expect quality results in terms of relevance, format and response time, and are more concerned about quality than quantity. On the other hand, the main goal of the search engine system is to retrieve information which is supposed to be relevant to the student's request in the shortest time possible. New techniques in th...

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