Samir A. El-Seoud

• Doctor of Science
• Professor (Full) at British University in Egypt

This study targets a group of people who require care, that is, people with special needs. The significance of this study lies in addressing the main problem that this group suffers from, which is the lack of awareness and information that leads to the acceptance of that group in society. This work aims to create a mobile application that contribut...

This study investigated students’ perception of English Language Learning in virtual discussion boards (VDBs). A 5-likert scale questionnaire of 5 sections was piloted to 108 students in a private university. Results showed that VDBs were convenient tools for learning English and for promoting students’ critical thinking skills. The general trend o...

Tourism in Saudi Arabia varies to include the most attractive and active religious tourism due to the presence of the Two Holy Mosques, eco-tourism, and business tourism. Global tourism in Saudi Arabia has a more than distinctive character, for example, Saudi Arabia has many coastal destinations, and it has green spaces that cover its mountains, pl...

The exchange of information between the different organizations in the different stages of a building’s life cycle has always been an important and difficult task at the same time. In each project, there are a vast number of participants with different views of the same physical structure who have to interact and exchange information throughout the...

Handwriting can help children to improve their learning of a language and fine-tune their motor skills. Every child needs to develop her/his handwriting skill to grasp new concepts appropriately and learn the language vocabulary. Therefore, in-hand manipulation of the traditional pen is highly important to develop pre-writing and transform the scri...

RNA virus’s diseases such as COVID-19, SARS, Influenza, and others have recently spread and caused terror to all people around the world due to the death of a large number of people after infection with these dangerous viruses. These viruses are still vague to many people because there is no specific solution to this issue, as they do not know its...

Several research works have demonstrated the high importance of handwriting in a language acquisition. Learners prefer to use the traditional method of writing with a pen and pencil to strengthen the understanding of the language vocabularies. Research has shown that an assistive haptic device can greatly benefit handwriting skills development and...

Ubiquitous computing supports U-learning to develop and implement a new educational environment that provides effective and interactive learning to students wherever they are. This study aims to present a qualitative evaluation for using U-learning instead of traditional education to avoid the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic. The authors introdu...

Image steganography is the process of communicating hidden secret image embedded in a cover image in plain sight without arousing any suspicions. In the recent times, deep learning methods have gained popularity and is widely used in the field of steganography. In this paper, an auto encoder-decoder based deep convolutional neural network is propos...

Collaborative Learning (C-learning) is applied as an effective way to develop students’ proficiency such as collaboration, communication, and critical thinking. The spread of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) around the world resulted in shutting universities globally. The education sector has changed with the distinctive rise of full E-learni...

COVID-19 pandemic imposed a new way of teaching children. Distance education through the Internet will then be adopted in many countries as the main source of education. The whole world is transformed from physical teaching in schools’ premises to virtual teaching through the web by using software like ZOOM or Microsoft team. These software connect...

Visualizing children’s stories is an important task to support distance learning and education during the current COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. This task can be regarded as a rapid transition to overcome any significant disruption to the provision of visual learning for children. However, such a task needs a deep understanding of the characters and e...

Leukemia is one of the deadliest diseases in human life, it is a type of cancer that hits blood cells. The task of diagnosing Leukemia is time consuming and tedious for doctors; it is also challenging to determine the level and type of Leukemia. The diagnoses of Leukemia are achieved through identifying the changes on the White blood Cells (WBC). W...

The present tools of career and educational guidance provided by educational organizations do not seem to address the problems faced by students, and graduates for applying to their promised job. The growing benefits of cloud software as services increase the requirements of implementing novel applications for career and educational guidance as a c...

Throughout the past several years, the new technologies and enhancements related to medical visualization has been more than fascinating. In this study, we discuss a proposed idea of a handheld or a mobile Augmented Reality (AR) application. This application will ease the process of medical visualization. The criticality of a faulty medical imaging...

Leukemia is one of the deadliest diseases in human life, it is a type of cancer that hits blood cells. The task of diagnosing Leukemia is time consuming and tedious for doctors; it is also challenging to determine the level and type of Leukemia. The diagnoses of Leukemia are achieved through identifying the changes on the White blood Cells (WBC). W...

The current period is dominated by social networks in daily life. Despite the several efforts and research practices done to overcome the issue, it still presents a problem. Despite the fact that social networks are useful for social gathering and communication, they also present new opportunities for harmful criminal acts. Cyber-harassment is an e...

Machine learning techniques are applied on higher education data for analyzing the interac-tion between the students and electronic learning systems. This type of analysis serves in predicting students’ scores, in alerting students-at-risk, and in managing the degree of stu-dent engagement to educational system. The approaches in this work implemen...

One of the most valuable medical imaging visualizations or computer-aided diagnosis is Volume rendering (VR). This survey’s objective is reviewing and comparing between several methods and techniques of VR, for a better and more comprehensive reading and learning of both pros and cons of each method, and their use cases.

Choosing a career or specialization is an important goal for students in the early stage of their life. The decision for choosing right career will affect positively or negatively on the academic level of students and professional life of the graduates. There are many factors affect career guidance process for students and graduates, some difficult...

Breast cancer is one of the leading fatal disease worldwide with high risk control if early discovered. Conventional method for breast screening is x-ray mammography, which is known to be challenging for early detection of cancer lesions. The dense breast structure produced due to the compression process during imaging lead to difficulties to recog...

Abstract: Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANET) are becoming a reality in today's world. These networks are composed of highly dynamic and capable vehicles and they rely on information that originates and is exchanged between each other. One of the main success factors of this communication is the validity of the data communicated. Hence, malicious veh...

Choosing a career is an important objective for students and graduates, since the choice is done at a relatively early age, and based on several criteria. The right decision for choosing a career will affects positively on the academic level of students and professional life of the graduates, and vice versa. As a result the importance of career gui...

Machine learning is applied on high education for analyzing the interaction between the students and electronic learning systems. This type of analysis serves in predicting of the student scores, in alerting students-at-risk, and in managing the degree of student engagement to educational system. The approaches in this work implements the divide an...

The contemporary period is scarred by the predominant place of social media in everyday life. Despite social media being a useful tool for communication and social gathering it also offers opportunities for harmful criminal activities. One of these activities is cyber-bullying enabled through the abuse and mistreatment of the internet as a means of...

Breast cancer is one of the leading fatal disease worldwide with high risk control if early discovered. Conventional method for breast screening is x-ray mammography, which is known to be challenging for early detection of cancer lesions. The dense breast structure produced due to the compression process during imaging lead to difficulties to recog...

Volume rendering (VR) is amongst the most valuable techniques in medical visualizations, or computer-aid diagnosis and other areas that are related. This study discusses and review the varying methods and techniques used to deliver a volume rendering technique.

Visualization of patient’s anatomy is the most important pre-operation process in surgeries, minimally invasive surgeries are among these types of medical operations that counts totally on medical visualization before operating on a patient. However, medicine has a problem in visualizing patients’ through looking through multiple slices of scans, t...

Visualization of patient's anatomy is the most important preoperation process in surgeries; minimally invasive surgeries are among these types of medical operations that counts totally on medical visualization before operating on a patient. However, medicine has a problem in visualizing patients' through looking through multiple slices of scans, tr...

Individuals with autism require systematic assistance while dealing with the surrounding environment and its objects. The project aim is to develop a framework that could be of substantial help to people with autism and cognitive disorders. The framework is based on common mobile devices and freely available Augmented Reality (AR) applications. The...

p class="0BodyText">Autism spectrum syndrome well known as autism. Autism was delivered within the 1920s century especially in 1944. Autism is described as a development disease that influences the social abilities, nonverbal communication or what's called body language. Human beings with Autism and Asperger’s syndrome tends to have high IQ however...

Cloud computing is a new paradigm for hosting hardware and software resources and provides a web-based services to organizations and consumers. It also provides an easy to use and on-demand access to cloud based computing resources that can be published by easy, minimal administration and with a great efficiency. Services of cloud computing are acc...

p class="0abstractCxSpFirst">Clickbait is a term used to describe a deceiving web content that uses ambiguity to prompt the user into clicking a link. It aims to increase the number of online readers in order to generate more advertising revenue. In other words, Clickbait is used to describe a type of hyperlink on a web page which seduces a user to...

Cloud computing is one of the recent emerging technologies that provides services to consumers in a pay as you go model. Cloud computing offers ITC based services over the internet and the use of virtualization allows it to provide computing resources. Data Centers are the core of cloud computing, which consists of: networked servers, cables, power...

Pay for the service is the motto of cloud computing. It allows users to use distributed resources in the Internet to do their computations without installing and paying for those resources. Those resources are diverse to provide services that cover software, platform and infrastructure. When developing services, security is critical especially at c...

This work enhances the analysis of the student performance in the high education level. This model categorizes the features according to their relativeness to the teaching style and to the student activities on an Electronic Learning system. Several new features are proposed and calculated in each of these two categories/dimensions. This approach a...

the increasing growth of mobile devices technology and Mobile-based systems with the emerging of cloud computing technology, created a Mobile Cloud Computing field to be the recent future technology for different wireless services. The development of Mobile-based system under cloud computing environment solve some performance and environment relate...

this report will exhibit an outline of the basic features of Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) and the key concepts of this technology in the Fashion Retail Industry. Several obstacles such as the necessity of putting on the garments to experience its actual view have been tackled by customers throughout the process of clothes shopping. The goal is to...

Flipped classroom pedagogy have gained attention in recent years. This paper reports our study on the attitudes of students towards flipped classroom in introductory programming. Surveys were used to measure the perception using many factors. The study explores the effect of flipped classroom on increasing student-student and student-instructor int...

This paper focuses on IQ and EQ enhancement for people with mental challenges such as Autism, Asparagus syndrome and Down syndrome. People with autism and asparagus syndrome develop a relatively high IQ but below average EQ. On the other hand, people with Down syndrome and intellectual disability have low IQ and relatively high EQ. The system uses...

Cloud computing is a set of IT services offered to users over the web on a rented base. Recently, cloud computing is considered as a new internet based paradigm for hosting and providing hardware and software services the consumers. The main services models for cloud computing includes: software, platform and infrastructure (as a service), to satis...

Cloud computing is a set of IT services offered to users over the web on a rented base. Recently, cloud computing is considered as a new internet based paradigm for hosting and providing hardware and software services the consumers. The main services models for cloud computing includes: software, platform and infrastructure (as a service), to satis...

this paper focuses on IQ and EQ enhancement for people with mental challenges such as Autism, Asparagus syndrome and Down syndrome. People with autism and asparagus syndrome develop a relatively high IQ but below average EQ. On the other hand, people with Down syndrome and intellectual disability have low IQ and relatively high EQ. The system uses...

Autism spectrum syndrome well known as autism. Autism was introduced in the twenties century specifically in 1944. Autism is defined as a development disorder that affects the social skills, nonverbal communication or what is known as body language. People with Autism and Asperger's syndrome tends to have high IQ but very low EQ [1]. In addition, o...

This paper introduces a model to analyze and predict students' performance based on two dimensions; teaching style, and eLearning activities. Such data will be collected from educational settings within an academic institution. The analyzed data is used to reveal knowledge and useful patterns from which critical decisions could be made. The suggest...

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) imaging is considerably recommended for use in clinical CT scanning because of growing fears over excessive radiation exposure. Automatic exposure control (AEC) is one of the methods used in dose reduction techniques that have been implemented clinically comprise showing significant decrease scan range. The quali...

Clickbait is a term that describes deceiving web content that uses ambiguity to provoke the user into clicking a link. It aims to increase the number of online readers in order to generate more advertising revenue. Clickbaits are heavily present on social media platforms wasting the time of users. We used supervised machine learning to create a mod...

In orthopedic surgery, it is important for physicians to completely understand the three-dimensional (3D) anatomical structures for several procedures. With the current revolution in technology in every aspect of our life, mixed reality in the medical field is going to be very useful. However, medicine has a visualization problem hindering how surg...

This paper presents a new approach for delivering the project component in introductory engineering course. The approach is based on using 3D modeling software to create the prototype of the product. Furthermore, immersive VR display were utilized to enable the students to explore and inspect their design in different stages and discover the proble...

Cloud services can be categorized into Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), the Platform as a Service (PaaS) and the Software as a Service (SaaS). In (Iaas), the whole IT infrastructure can be delivered as a service. In (Paas), a virtual platform over the internet gives users the ability to develop and deploy applications. In (SaaS), it provides acc...

Cloud Computing appears as a computational model and a distributive architecture framework. The main objectives of cloud computing are to provide secure, quick, convenient data storage and net computing service, with all computing resources visualized as services and delivered over the Internet. The term “Cloud Computing” has been in the spotlights...

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) regularly experience situations in which they need to give answers but do not know how to respond; for example, questions related to everyday life activities that are asked by strangers. Research geared at utilizing technology to mend social and communication impairments in children with autism is act...

This paper presents an innovative technological solution to improve the understanding and cognitive functions of children with intellectual disability through multimedia. New algorithms that mine the story-based scripts, rank their sentences, extract keywords and match them with multimedia have been proposed in our previous work. They are integrate...

We describe a SMS-based information system called CATS, which allows posting and searching through free Arabic text using Information Extraction (IE) technology. We discuss the challenges of applying IE technology for unedited real Arabic text. In addition, we describe the structure of this system and our approach to produce an open robust system c...

Big data is currently one of the most critical emerging technologies. Big Data are used as a concept that refers to the inability of traditional data architectures to efficiently handle the new data sets. The 4V’s of big data – volume, velocity, variety and veracity makes the data management and analytics challenging for the traditional data wareho...

Children with special needs face major difficulties to understand the script of stories. They cannot comprehend the words’ meaning properly. Instructors use different techniques to explain them. They read the script several times, use glossy images, symbols, and short clips. The instructors spend a lot of time searching for these elements. The prep...

Abstract: Much of our scientific, technological, and economic future depends on the availability of an ever-increasing supply of computational power. However, the increasing demand for such power has pushed electronic technology to the limit of physical feasibility and has raised the concern that this technology may not be able to sustain our growt...

p>In this work, we present a framework to integrate the functionalities of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) with the University academic and management functionalities at the British University in Egypt , in order to produce a University Resource Planning (URP) that facilitates the integration between educational and management processes with...

Since cloud computing technology is growing day by day, it comes with many security problems, especially from threats such as malware. As more services migrate to the cloud architecture, the cloud will become a more appealing target for cyber criminals. In this paper, we present the current threats to the cloud environment, and the proposed detecti...

Learning to prioritize different activities effectively can help many students to become more efficient towards their work, managing time, energy, and stress. This paper presents an automated tool that helps students and teaches them how, as a team, can prioritize group work. The tool is based on a formal prioritization mechanism that encompasses a...

Cloud is a pool of computing resources which are distributed among cloud users. Cloud computing has many benefits like scalability, flexibility, cost savings, reliability, maintenance and mobile accessibility. Since cloud-computing technology is growing day by day, it comes with many security problems. Securing the data in the cloud environment is...

Genomics and Next Generation Sequencers (NGS) like Illumina Hiseq produce data in the order of 200 billion base pairs in a single one-week run for a 60x human genome coverage, which requires modern high-throughput experimental technologies that can only be tackled with high performance computing (HPC) and specialized software algorithms called “sho...

p class="Abstract">System development methodologies which have being used in the academic and commercial environments during last two decades have advantages and disadvantages. Researchers had tried to identify objectives, scope …etc. of the methodologies by following different approaches. Each approach has its Limitation, specific interest, covera...

Cloud computing is an emerging technology which provides IT services and resources to the customers through the internet. These services are delivered by third party provider who owns the infrastructure. It is often provided "as a service" over the Internet, typically in the form of infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, or software as...

As an important component of traffic system, parking management system is playing an important role and affecting people’s daily life. By detecting and processing the information from parking lots, smart parking system allows drivers to obtain real-time parking information and alleviates parking contentions. The use of intelligent systems have beco...

Modern mobile communication technology had solved many problems for business and individuals. Modern open source android applications are featured individually. The integration of such applications will be essential for team managers or seniors. Many trials of integration do exist such as TripIt, Gist, TouchDown and iSolve, as an example. In this p...

Cloud computing is a set of IT services offered to users over the web on a rented base. Cloud computing has many advantages such as flexibility, efficiency, scalability, integration, and capital reduction. Moreover, it provides an advanced virtual space for organizations to deploy their applications and to run their operations. Despite the benefit...

The main aim of this research paper is to analyze Bluetooth chat software and technology. The analysis should include market and users need in order to be able to fabricate the Bluetooth chat application and make it available for users as a helpful utility and entertaining application. This research paper is mainly motivated to solve certain proble...

The main objective of this paper is to teach students how to organize their tasks into distinct categories and levels of difficult, and start approaching them like a pro. The paper discusses the basic steps that students should take into consideration to prioritize their activities. Students must know that prioritisation provides transparency to th...

The paper discusses the basic steps that students should take into consideration to prioritize their activities. Students must know that prioritisation provides transparency to the order of their activities and allows them to make informed decisions when deciding on the scope of the project. Later on, when they work within a development team on a g...

Different types of e-assessment systems that are recognized at universities and based on the campus wireless have been developed. These systems help the students to use their Mobile Phones as learning media to access the information more easily from anywhere and at any time. Seppala and Alamaki developed a mobile learning project for teacher traini...

E-learning provides students with a different opportunity to learn regardless of where they are and when they are available. In e-learning environment, students are able to participate in self-faced and interactive learning that is otherwise impossible. This paper shows that the use of interactive features of e-learning increases the motivation of...

In this paper we will present our work in studying the sublanguage of Arabic SMS-based classified ads. This study is presented from the developer's point of view. We will use the corpus collected from an operational system, CATS. We also compare the SMS-based and the Web-based messages. We also discuss some quantitative properties of the studied te...

A triple component system which can serve basic communication and cognitive needs of developmentally disabled children in the Arab world is proposed. This system is based on a combinational cognitive model which merges Mayer's Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning and Skinner's Operant Conditioning Theory. The system aims to benefit three main gr...

The Semantic Web is the next giant step of the current web technology. The use and application of the Semantic Web in E-learning has been explored with regard to two areas: 1) software that supports instructors to perform their tasks in flexible online educational settings, and 2) software that interprets the structure of distributed, self organize...

A triple component system which can serve basic communication and cognitive needs of developmentally disabled children in the Arab world is proposed. This system is based on a combinational cognitive model which merges Mayer’s Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning and Skinner’s Operant Conditioning Theory. The system aims to benefit three main gr...

It is estimated that as many as 25 percent of individuals living with autism spectrum disorders are non-verbal. That is, they cannot functionally communicate with others using their voice. Despite that substantial fraction, we still know very little about these individuals, their abilities, and their needs. "We still know very little about the cogn...

According to a report published by the World Federation of Deaf, the number of people with hearing impairments (HI) exceeds 731,000 in the Arab region. According to Qatar Statistics Authority data, it is estimated that 9.3% of people with special needs in Qatar have HI. Similar estimates are available in other Gulf and Arab countries. The main aim...

The main objectives are: 1) Design and implementation of Mobile-based assessment system. The system should allow students to download course materials, download online exams/assignments, and benefit from online interactive materials and tutorials. The system should also allow students to take Mobile-based quizzes and to evaluate their academic prog...

According to a report published by the World Federation of Deaf, the number of people with hearing impairments (HI) exceeds 731,000 in the Arab region. According to Qatar Statistics Authority data, it is estimated that 9.3% of people with special needs in Qatar have HI. Similar estimates are available in other Gulf and Arab countries. The main a...

Different types of e-assessment systems that are recognized at universities and based on the campus wireless have been developed. These systems help the students to use their Mobile Phones as learning media to access the information more easily from anywhere and at anytime. Seppala and Alamaki developed a mobile learning project for teacher trainin...

Web-based learning tools provide integrated environments of various technologies to support diverse educators’ and learners’ needs via the Internet. Motivation strategies in online distance learning and e-learning should be identified early in the process so as to enhance the learning outcomes. Online learning can be more flexible and often involve...

The main aim of this study is to investigate the needs of people with HI in the Arab world, and propose a system design that would help alleviate the challenges they face. The system design is centered on Arabic-based Natural Language Processing, with the objectives focused on presenting a multiple component educational system that utilizes multime...

E-learning provides students with a different opportunity to learn regardless of where they are and when they are available. In e-learning environment, students are able to participate in self-faced and interactive learning that is otherwise impossible. This paper shows that the use of interactive features of e-learning increases the motivation of...

E-learning provides students with a different opportunity to learn regardless of where they are and when they are available. In e-learning environment, students are able to participate in self-faced and interactive learning that is otherwise impossible. This paper shows that the use of interactive features of e-learning increases the motivation of...

Handheld device systems have been used as tools for teaching people with special needs due to cognitive function enhancement by utility of multimedia, attractive graphics and user-friendly navigation. Can a handheld device system, such as cellular phone, be used for teaching illiterate people? This paper explores and exploits the possibility of the...