Sahar Idwan

• PhD. In Computer Science
• Full professor at Hashemite University

With the rapid increase in the number of vehicles on the road, the necessity for traffic management systems became apparent. In order to effectively control traffic, a number of technical solutions were proposed to solve traffic issues, such as eliminating traffic congestion and identifying the shortest routes. Researchers are motivated to use vari...

Traffic congestion in urban areas poses several challenges to municipal authorities including pollution, productivity loss, reckless driving, and delays in dealing with emergencies. Smart cities can use modern IoT infrastructure to solve the congestion problem and reduce pollution and delays. In this article, we focus on congestion mapping and miti...

Traffic management is one of the major factors in growth strategy formulation in urban centers across the globe. The increasing population and, therefore, the increase in the number of vehicles on roads in urban centers cause congested traffic patterns. These patterns typically emerge on intersections in busy city roads at various times during the...

In this paper, we discuss rescue planning for disaster victims trapped in a partially collapsed multistory building. Before the rescue teams enter the building, the number and approximate locations of victims should be determined leading to efficient planning of the search and rescue paths for saving more lives. We develop the MLOCATE algorithm bas...

MaDiH (Mapping Digital Cultural Heritage in Jordan) was a two-year UK-Jordanian project that aimed to identify essential systems, datasets and standards to contribute to the long-term sustainable development of Jordan’s digital cultural heritage. The project launched an online catalogue and prototype repository using the Comprehensive Knowledge Arc...

Mangrove wetlands are facing an existential threat from rapid socio-economic development. In this study, public environmental values regarding mangrove wetlands in the Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) city in the United Arab Emirates were assessed, considering gender, age, education, income, length of residency in RAK, knowledge of RAK mangrove and awareness o...

p>We consider pursuing the Jordanian women their graduate studies in Information Technology disciplines as an indicator of socio-economic development and empowering women in Jordan. This paper presents the first study of multi-variate stereotypes that shape the problem by addressing the following factors: travel abroad, family matters, skills and e...

MaDiH (مديح): Mapping Digital Cultural Heritage in Jordan is an AHRC/Newton funded collaborative project between King’s Digital Lab (KDL), the Hashemite University, the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, the Jordanian Open Source Association, and the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East...

This paper investigates sentiment analysis in Arabic tweets that have the presence of Jordanian dialect. A new dataset was collected during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. We demonstrate two models: the Traditional Arabic Language (TAL) model and the Semantic Partitioning Arabic Language (SPAL) model to envisage the polarity of the col...

This white paper reports on the findings of the MaDiH (مديح): Mapping Digital Cultural Heritage in Jordan project. It is complemented by a technical white paper. MaDiH (مديح) is a collaborative project between King’s Digital Lab (KDL) at King’s College London, the Hashemite University (HU), the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), the...

Technology has affected the development of the education process over time. COVID-19 pandemic has forced educational facilities to close. Consequently, transformation from face-to-face educational approach to the E-learning approach has pushed the world to enter a new state of learning. This situation has elicited doubts about the implementation an...

Deaf people face many challenges to communicate with the hearing world. Many studies and industrial solutions came up with interpretation from sign language to normal text but most of them are limited either to static images for letters or static animated character plays the word in motion. Therefore, this research worked on enhancing the feasible...

As of December 2019, the world’s view on life has been changed due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This requires the use of all kinds of technology to help identify coronavirus patients and control the spread of this disease. In this paper, an online questionnaire was developed as a tool to collect data. This data was used as an input for various pre...

No matter how sophisticated an organization's security system is, it remains vulnerable due to the human factor. In this study, we surveyed and analyzed the patterns practiced by users when generating passwords at a small-sized university. We found that users are not as aware of security requirements and practices as they think. Moreover, the vast...

Smart cities are benefiting from Internet of Things (IoT) in optimizing their services. Smart waste management systems can provide substantial savings in time, monetary cost, trip length and utilization of vehicles. In this paper, we use the IoT technology to determine the schedule and pathways of waste collection trucks. We discuss our previous wo...

As of December 2019, the world’s view on life has been changed due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This requires the use of all kinds of technology to help identify coronavirus patients and control the spread of this disease. In this paper, an online questionnaire was developed as a tool to collect data. This data was used as an input for various pre...

Ras Al Khaimah (Rak) is the northernmost emirate of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The emirate has witnessed a phenomenal economic and demographic growth. Taking a progressive stance on sustainability, the emirate has undertaken a sustainability strategy that aims at increasing its recycling rate from the current level of about 15 to 75% by 2021....

We describe the design and implementation of a system to automate patient handling and assignment to hospitals in mass disasters involving a large number of injured victims over a wireless network. In addition, the previously developed MEDTOC system is modified and enhanced to include location-aware features at the disaster site, as well as quick c...

No matter how sophisticated and advanced an organization's security system is, it remains vulnerable due to the human factor. In this paper, we conducted a survey to analyze the patterns used by the faculty, staff, and students when generating passwords at a small sized university. We found that users are not as aware of security requirements and p...

In this paper, the design and working of a patient load balancing system is described to enhance the automated patient handling in mass disasters involving scores of injured victims. The MEDTOC system developed earlier is augmented to handle the larger size of disasters resulting from mass casualty events. This load balancing system can be deployed...

Wi-Fi Direct is considered as the way to connect people by offering a wider connectivity to the authorized devices. This paper presents a prototype that connects more than two displays wirelessly to create a VGA host by integrating the Miracast Application Program Interface (API) with Wi-Fi direct technology. This achievement supports high-quality...

We consider applicability of the e-learning at Hashemite University (HU) from different perspectives based on the academic major of students. The e-learning concept had professionally been applied on some majors offered at the HU and gained a great impact on the learning process, students and staff. The HU has made an excellent progress toward prac...

This chapter presents the proposed model of combination between Photovoltaic solar system resources and sound biometric techniques, to generate power energy from the sunlight using the PVS controlled by a sound biometric technique. This work contributes to research knowledge by proposing and validating a sound biometric technique for allowing to re...

This paper presents a novel kit application of a Bluetooth technology so-called 'Fever Watcher-kit' (FW-kit). FW-kit facilitates monitoring and tracking the children's temperature in a safe way as needed. The FW-kit consists of two parts: temperature device and mobile application. The temperature device measures the temperature at the surface of th...

A new model is required for wireless Bluetooth technology that enhances media streaming between different devices. This paper presents a novel system that utilises the intermediate protocol L2CAP and a newly proposed integrated buffering architecture to stream media file via Bluetooth technology that is called 'mBlueThunder'. The new system overcom...

Photovoltaic system (PVS) is used for generating electric power by using solar cells to convert energy from the sun light into a flow of direct current electricity, which can be used to power equipment or to recharge a battery. In addition, the Sound biometric techniques can enable PVS to listen and understand their surrounding auditory environment...

In this paper, we present the first reported Bluetooth technology solution so-called 'BlueThunder'. The proposed solution represents an excellent blossom in the Bluetooth wireless field. It solves the incompatibility problems between devices, and, simultaneously, assures the reliability of the data streaming and enhances the quality of the transfor...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been diffused in higher education slower than it has been expected. Especially for developing countries, using ICT in the most efficient and effective ways has crucial importance for the sustainable development and effective use of resources. This paper presents a theory-based design framework...

In this study, the authors consider a solar system which consists of a solar trainer that contains a photovoltaic panel, a DC centrifugal pump, flat plate collectors, storage tank, a flowmeter for measuring the water mass flow rate, pipes, pyranometer for measuring the solar intensity, thermocouples for measuring various system temperatures and win...

With the increased use of the applications that deal with massive collections of data, integrity checking became a critical problem. Efficient checking could be achieved by deriving a simplified form of the integrity constraints against the new database state before the update operation is performed. Most of the research projects in this area are c...

In this study, a computerized model has been developed to obtain the optimal distribution of the machines on three cells based on Artificial Neural Network (ANN's). These networks rely on the historical input-output data to learn input output implicit mapping. They are trained using back propagation algorithm. Comparing the results with those in th...

In this study, we developed an algorithm that improves a Dijkstra implementation in a large and dense graph based on hMetis partitioning. hMetis is a hyper graph partitioning algorithm that divides the massive graph into sub-graphs. The algorithm is called h-Dijkstra consists of pre-processing the flat graph by partitioning it onto a sub graph then...

The main purpose of this paper is to introduce a complete design of a novel system for adaptive intelligent learning system (SAIL), and to innovate on both technical and conceptual fronts by addressing relevant barriers. This research was focused on actualizing a human centered approach through the guidance of experts in the learning and psychologi...

Directed 2D layout with positive arc weights such as Jordan road networks structure need fast algorithms to extract appropriate features at a reasonable time. One of the popular acceleration algorithms that achieve this objective is the Depth First Search computation in a large and dense graph. The algorithm is enhanced in this research by utilizin...

This paper presents Mobile application via Bluetooth wireless technology (MAvBT) that enhance the student portal in universities by connecting students' mobile phone devices to a server application that benefit from the devices Bluetooth technology and the storage abilities. MAvBT enables students to retrieve their information with minimum time and...

In this paper, we present a new algorithm for the Breadth first search traversing based on hMetis partitioning. hMetis is a hyper graph partitioning algorithm that divides the massive graph into sub-graphs. Our heuristic approach of computing the breadth first search (h_BFS) starts at the partition that contains the source node then processing the...

This paper presents a Multimedia Message Transmitter Tool (MMTT) that provides businesses with the opportunity to use Bluetooth wireless connectivity delivering the relevant information to relevant people in the right places and time. MMTT empowers any business to market their services or products for unlimited time with a one-time fee. It provides...

In this paper, we present an algorithm (CP_Hand_Activity) used to build an application that utilizes touch screen interface to help cerebral palsy (CP) children to develop and upgrade simple hand activities to reach more complicated functional activities which they can use in their daily lives. Our algorithm consists of four stages each with differ...