Ashraf Ahmad obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan. He obtained his B.Sc. degree from Princess Sumya University for Technology (PSUT) in Jordan. Dr. Ahmad is currently an assistant professor at the department of computer since in PSUT, Jordan. His interest area includes multimedia semantic features extraction, and analysis, multimedia retrieval, and multimedia communication. Prof. Ahmad has authored over 40 scientific publications including journal papers, conference papers and book chapters. In addition, Dr. Ahmad has several US and international patents in his field of expertise. He serves in program committee for several international conferences. He is also a reviewer and referee for several conferences and journals. His work has been published and presented at various international conferences. Dr. Ahmad has been listed in Who’s Who in the World for the year 2006 and Who’s Wh
Ismail Khalil Ibrahim holds a tenured position as senior researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Telecooperation, Johanes Kepler University Linz, Austria. He currently teaches, consults, and conducts research in mobile multimedia, agent technologies, and the Semantic Web and is also interested in the broader business, social, and policy implications associated with the emerging information technologies. Before joining Johannes Kepler University of Linz in October 2002, he was a research fellow at the Intelligent Systems Group at Utrecht University, Netherlands from 2001-2002 and the project manager of AgenCom project at the Software Competence Center Hagenberg , Austria from 2000-2001. He worked in the University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq as lecturer from 1985-1990, in the Human Resources Training and Development Institute, Iraq as the head of the academic studies department from 1990-1996, in Gadjah Mada University , Indonesia as teaching and research assist