Faten Hamad

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Sultan Qaboos University

This paper presents a novel Hybrid Artificial Protozoa Optimizer with Differential Evolution (HPDE), combining the biologically inspired principles of the Artificial Protozoa Optimizer (APO) with the powerful optimization strategies of Differential Evolution (DE) to address complex and engineering design challenges. The HPDE algorithm is designed t...

The purpose of this study is to assess how accessible archives are for persons with disabilities in Oman, considering the effectiveness of national and international regulations related to this matter, and determining the problems of their implementation. Accordingly, the methodology of the research has been qualitative, combining documentary analy...

Background Mobile devices are now widely and extensively used by university students. With the rapid advancement in technology, mobile learning has become an important educational model, particularly for health schools’ students. This research aims to investigate the attitudes of health schools’ students in Jordan towards mobile learning, as well a...

This study presents an innovative hybrid evolutionary algorithm that combines the Arctic Puffin Optimization (APO) algorithm with the JADE dynamic differential evolution framework. The APO algorithm, inspired by the foraging patterns of Arctic puffins, demonstrates certain challenges, including a tendency to converge prematurely at local minima, a...

Generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) hold the promise of revolutionizing information access and user services. The purpose of this study is to examine the possible uses and applications of GPTs in academic libraries. One important objective is to investigate how GPTs can improve information access and user services within academic library env...

Complex and nonlinear optimization challenges pose significant difficulties for traditional optimizers, which often struggle to consistently locate the global optimum within intricate problem spaces. To address these challenges, the development of hybrid methodologies is essential for solving complex, real-world, and engineering design problems. Th...

Purpose This study examines the digital accessibility of information services for students with disabilities at the University of Jordan. Despite advancements in disability rights and technology, academic libraries often lag in providing fully accessible digital services. Design/methodology/approach The mixed-methods research involved quantitative...

Robot path planning is a critical challenge in robotics, demanding efficient navigation and effective obstacle avoidance in complex environments. This research investigates the application of the gray wolf optimizer (GWO) algorithm in designing robots capable of obstacle avoidance and path following. The primary objective is to determine the shorte...

Technology capabilities have been exploited in all major industrial and service sectors including education, logistics, business, and health. It mainly facilitated the outreach to the local community to provide, support, and deliver services. This research aimed to explore the role of technology to control the spread of Covid-19 pandemic by investi...

Metaheuristic algorithms play a pivotal role in addressing complex and nonlinear optimization challenges. However, traditional optimizers often struggle to locate the global optimum in intricate problem spaces, necessitating the development of hybrid methodologies. This paper introduces FVIMDE, a cutting-edge hybrid optimization algorithm that amal...

This study employs Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using Smart PLS 3.2.9 to offer valuable insight into the relationship between e-marketing mix (4Ps) and customer satisfaction with electronic information services provided by public university libraries in Jordan. The identified primary aspects within the e-marketing mix encompass e-product, e-p...

Swarm intelligence (SI) algorithms represent a class of Artificial Intelligence (AI) optimization metaheuristics used for solving complex optimization problems. However, a key challenge in solving complex problems is maintaining the balance between exploration and exploitation to find the optimal global solution and avoid local minima. This paper p...

The shift toward electronic learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic has created many opportunities to shape Oman’s learning styles. This study explores the factors that affect students’ acceptance of blended learning (BL) in higher education institutions in developing countries, focusing on Oman. The study examines the impact of demographic and socia...

The spread of fake news among Arabic media including social media represents a great challenge to the integrity of information and the trust of the public in it. In this paper, we introduce a comprehensive deep-learning framework, named ArabFake, that goes beyond the binary classification on Arabic fake news detection. ArabFake, built over MARBERTv...

Fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks have already marked their presence globally, revolutionizing entertainment, business, healthcare, and other domains. While this leap forward brings numerous advantages in speed and connectivity, it also poses new challenges for security protocols. Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) have been employed...

This research proposes a novel Hybrid Success History Intelligent Optimizer with Gaussian Transformation (SHIOGT) for solving different complexity level optimization problems and for Convolutional Neural Network (CNNs) hyperparameter tuning. SHIOGT algorithm is designed to balance exploration and exploitation phases through the addition of Gaussian...

This research proposes a novel Hybrid Success History Intelligent Optimizer with Gaussian Transformation (SHIOGT) for solving different complexity level optimization problems and for Convolutional Neural Network (CNNs) hyperparameter tuning. SHIOGT algorithm is designed to balance exploration and exploitation phases through the addition of Gaussian...

Emerging technologies in artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced optimization methodologies have opened up a new frontier in the field of software engineering. Among these methodol-ogies, optimization algorithms such as the multi-verse optimizer (MVO) provide a compelling and structured technique for identifying software vulnerabilities, thereby...

COVID-19 has changed the information landscape. The results were the wide spread of information of all kinds and from all sources, leading to increased information disorder (i.e. disinformation, misinformation practices). This study aimed to explore the practices of academic libraries during times of crisis from the staff perception in four public...

Purpose; The aim of this research was to investigate the attitudes towards m-learning among medical students in Jordan, and their perceptions about the advantages and disadvantages of m-learning compared to the status quo (mostly face-to-face learning). It also aimed at exploring how m-learning might support information and learning needs during c...

The objective of this study was to examine the behaviour of Omani individuals in relation to misinformation on social media platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the government's response to the pandemic. A quantitative survey method was employed, and data was collected through a controlled questionnaire distributed among 15 grou...

Data testing is a vital part of the software development process, and there are various approaches available to improve the exploration of all possible software code paths. This study introduces two contributions. Firstly, an improved version of the Multi-verse Optimizer called Testing Multi-Verse Optimizer (TMVO) is proposed, which takes into acco...

Purpose Technological advancement has forced academic libraries to change their traditional services and routines by adopting emerging technologies to respond to the changing information needs of their users who are now more technologically inclined and prefer to access information remotely and in a timely manner. Smart technologies are the recent...

Swarm intelligence (SI) is part of artificial intelligence that is based on the collective behavior of particles in a self-organized and decentralized intelligent systems which is inspired from either the human or animal social behavior. SI has a great involvement in solving optimization problems. As optimization-based systems are complicated, so p...

Technological advancement has forced academic libraries to change their traditional services by adopting emerging technologies to respond to the changing information needs of their users, who are now more technologically inclined and prefer remote and timely access to scholarly information. Smart technologies are the recent trend in academic librar...

Application of data science tools, techniques, and principles have increased within the field of library and information science. This trend is especially noticeable in academic libraries where strategic priorities around data science initiatives have been created to further support and add value to the research enterprises at their institutions. T...

Swarm intelligence (SI) is part of artificial intelligence that is based on the collective behavior of particles in a self-organized and decentralized intelligent systems which is inspired from either the human or animal social behavior. SI has a great involvement in solving optimization problems. As optimization-based systems are complicated, so p...

Purpose COVID-19 forced libraries and other institutions to either close their doors to users or change their services routines. At this time, the libraries should extend their efforts to meet the increasing demands of information services in terms of quantity and quality of information services. This study aims to explore the role and responsibili...

During COVID-19 pandemic countries faced various levels of COVID-19 infection rates. This affected the educational process where universities were forced to switch to online learning. This situations crated various challenges for university schools in general and music schools in specific, in dealing with this situation that necessitates emergency...

Purpose Digital preservation requires new skills and collaboration among library staff to maintain long-term access to information resources. Digital content and digital technologies pose a serious challenge to information institutions to continue to select, preserve and access information resources. However, there is an urgent need to increase awa...

In view of the increased importance of the Sustainable Development Goals and the limited number of public libraries in Jordan, it is important to investigate the role and practices of academic libraries in promoting knowledge and skills to support the Sustainable Development Goals in Jordan. It is also important to explore the challenges that might...

COVID-19 appears in Wuhan in December 2019 and spread all around the world including Jordan. Jordan set successful example in dealing with covid-19 crisis, with its low number of deaths, increased recovery cases and decreased cases of infections in comparison with Middle East and surrounding countries. It succeeded in eliminating the virus outbreak...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a serious and common chronic disease with high morbidity and mortality rates. Recently, stem cell-based therapy has shown considerable promise as a future therapeutic modality for DM. This review aims to summarize the types of stem cells that have the most successful evidence in treating type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and...

Digital skills are necessary to work and manage electronic library infrastructures and services. Accordingly, there is an urgent need for assessing the level of digital skills among librarians at academic libraries in Jordan. It is also important to investigate the influence of digital skills on technology acceptance among librarians in Jordan. A q...

There are several applications in use worldwide which improve sexual and reproductive health (OCP) among young people using mobile technology but none of these applications are in Arabic language. Mobile apps reflect a feasible and productive way to improve access in low and middle income countries to OCP services and resources. This paper describe...

Data plays a major role in helping to understand clearly the changing needs of academic library users, and in helping libraries to innovate their services and procedures accordingly. Data needs to be transformed into information for decision-making and strategic planning. Business intelligence offers powerful analytical tools, such as visualization...

Libraries hold large amounts of data, which can contribute to improvements in the quality of library services. Data resources of modern library have the characteristics of big-data, where library can use big-data methods to achieve reform and innovation, including resource transferring, resource utilization, social identity, thinking innovation. Li...

Research data management services require new skills and collaboration among library staff to work with both researchers and end-users as they manage data going forward. However, there is an urgent need to increase awareness of the new trends about the partnership between research community and academic libraries, there is also a need for new resea...

Cloud Computing, consists of eliminating the dependence on computer equipment, hard drives or pendrives, to work and store information directly on the Internet. The doubts and uncertainties of cloud computing come to us since leaving the hands of third parties the correct functioning of our applications or when saving our files in the cloud, becaus...

A contraindication is included in a medical treatment, it is a prescription that should be avoided for example by performing a different medical procedure or administering one or more medications or medicines or if combined with another medications, which increases the risk of deteriorating the patient's own symptoms or conditions of death. It is a...

The Integration of ICT in Library and Information Science Curricula An Analytical Study of Students Perception in Jordanian Universities Abstract Purpose - This study aims at exploring undergraduate students’ perceptions of ‎teaching information and communication technology (ICT) courses in the library and ‎information science (LIS) program in Jor...

Cloud computing are servers from the Internet that are responsible for responding to requests at any time. You can access your information or service, through an internet connection from any mobile device or landline located anywhere. They serve their users from several hosting providers frequently distributed around the world. This survey present...

Wireless ad-hoc network is a decentralized wireless network that does not have a permanent structure. Client devices are connected to form wireless network. Each node in the network to forward data from one node to another. Based on the connectivity of the network, the node dynamically determinewhich node to forward the data main threats for a secu...

Recent years have witnessed a huge revolution in developing automated diagnosis for different diseases such as cancer using medical image processing. Many researchers have been conducted in this field. Analyzing medical microscopic images provide pathology medical track with large information about the status of the patients and the progress of the...

Purpose Mobile technologies (MT) have been attracting the attention of academic library stakeholders for some time, as it is considered a strong communication channel that can offer advanced library services. Furthermore, MT can offer a number of flexible options for library users. Accordingly, the overarching aim of this research is to investigat...

Service oriented architecture (SOA) is a form of software design in which application component supply services to other components through a network communication protocol, it has many services that can transfer small data with communication channels or additional services which bring into a relationship that ensure efficiency of service activitie...

Hadoop is a cloud computing open source system, used in large-scale data processing. It became the basic computing platforms for many internet companies. With Hadoop platform users can develop the cloud computing application and then submit the task to the platform. Hadoop has a strong fault tolerance, and can easily increase the number of cluster...

Software testing is a significant stage in software development lifecycle. There are different sorts of' structural software testing methodologies that may be generally utilized and moved forward through enhancing the traverse of all of the conceivable code software paths. The interest for automating data testing is growing; however, manual testing...

Cambridge Core - General - Information Systems - edited by Christine Urquhart

Ad Hoc networks are a set of wireless mobile communication nodes (stations, users) that exchange information between different nodes in a dynamic environment. The mobile infrastructure help to form the dynamic network structure. Nodes communicate and send information between each other and with the centralized access points without interference. Ea...

Evaluation the performance of the algorithms and the method that is used to implement it play a major role in the assessment of the performance of many applications and it help the researchers to decide which algorithm to use and which method to implement it, it also give indicate of the performance of the hardware that the algorithm is tested over...

This new book takes a holistic view of information architecture to offer information professionals a vital critical analysis of library and information service architecture with discussion of methods, tools, techniques, and trends. The editors argue that library assessment literature has primarily dealt with performance measurement and change mana...

With web and social media information availability and accessibility increasing on the one hand, there is an increased complexity of retrieval on the other. Generally, real information needs are complex to express. Books are the prevailing information resources and book searching is one of the online activities that users attempt daily. Mobile tech...

Purpose This study aims to explore undergraduate students’ perceptions of teaching information and communication technology (ICT) courses in the library and information science (LIS) program in Jordanian universities. It also aims at investigating the correlation between the impact of some variables, namely, gender, the type of university, academic...

This paper investigates how academic librarians perceive the role of social networks in enhancing the professional skills of library staff, and how they can be used to promote library services. It is based on case study design in real organizational settings, which are two academic libraries in Jordan, namely the University of Jordan library and Al...

This study was undertaken with the primary aim of identifying, examining and providing an understanding of the factors that could affect citizens' intention to adopt and use e-government services in Jordan. The preliminary research model used here had been developed from the Technology Acceptance Model by incorporating additional constructs from ot...

Aims and objectives. For a particular randomised controlled trial, it is often useful to retrieve associated siblings - qualitative research, process and economic evaluations done alongside the randomised controlled trial (RCT). This thesis examines both the effectiveness and efficiency of search strategies, and the productivity of different databa...

Skin detection represents a challenge in recent years, due to the fact that imaging conditions and illumination factor affect the resulted image. In addition, human skin color has a wide range making it a tedious task to target and extract. This paper addresses a novel method to detect skin in still images. The detection approach is based on five f...