Islam Elkabani

Assistant Professor of Computer Science



  [email protected]
  Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science (El-shatby), Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt



Researcher Information

  • ORCID: 0000-0001-8065-3404
  • Rank and Position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Bio


  1. Teaching Assistance - Faculty of Science, Mathematics Dept. (CS division) [1998-2001].

  2. Research Student and Teaching Assistance – Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University, USA [2002-2007].

  3. Assistant Professor of Computer Science - Faculty of Science, CS & Math. Dept. Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.[2007-2009].

  4. Assistant Professor of Computer Science - Faculty of Science, CS & Math. Dept. Beirut Arab University, Beirut, Lebanon.[2009- 2020 ].

  5. Asstant Professor of Computer Science - Faculty of Science, CS & Math. Dept. Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.[2020- present ].

Publications


  1. Cerine Tafran, Mohamed El-Abed, Islam Elkabani, Ziad Osman, “Blind Image Quality Assessment for Face Pose Problem”, BAU Journal-Science and Technology, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1-11, 2020)

  2. Islam Elkabani, Layal Abu Daher and Rached Zantout, “Use of FP-Growth Algorithm in Identifying Influential Users on Twitter Hashtags”, in ACM Proceedings of the 2020 4th International Conference on Compute and Data Analysis, Silicon Valley, San Jose, USA. pp. 113-117, March 2020

  3. Islam Elkabani, Rached Zantout, Lama Hamandi, and Bassam Elmasri, “Experimental Evaluation of an Interactive Workspace for Helping the Visually Impaired in Learning Linear Algebra”, In: Ahram T., Falcão C. (eds) Advances in Usability, User Experience, Wearable and Assistive Technology. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1217. Springer, 2020

  4. Islam Elkabani, Lama Hamandi, Rached Zantout and Salma Ghali, “Evaluation of a Multilingual Workspace to Practice Math for Visually Impaired Students”, in Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2019), Springer, 2019

  5. Layal Abu Daher, Islam Elkabani , Rached Zantout, “Identifying Influential Users on Twitter: A Case Study from Paris Attacks”, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Information Sciences, Vol. 12, No. 5, 1021-1032, 2018

  6. Layal Abu Daher, Rached Zantout, Islam Elkabani, “User Influence on Twitter Hashtags Evolution: A Case Study from Career Opportunities Groups”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 13, No. 6, 3157-3164, 2018

  7. May Itani, Sanaa Sharafeddine and Islam Elkabani, “Dynamic Multiple Node Failure Recovery in Distributed Storage Systems”, Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 72, 1-13, Elsevier, 2018

  8. Layal Abu Daher, Rached Zantout, Islam Elkabani, Khaled Almustafa, “Evolution of Hashtags on Twitter: A Case Study from Events Groups”, In: Alenezi M., Qureshi B. (eds) 5th International Symposium on Data Mining Applications: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol 753, Springer, 2018

  9. Lama Soboh, Islam Elkabani, Ziad Othman, “Arabic Cultural Style Based Music Classification” , International Conference on New Trends in Computing Sciences (IEEE), Amman, Jordan, 2017

  10. Layal Abu Daher, Rached Zantout, Islam Elkabani, “Dynamic Evolution of Hashtags on Twitter: A Case Study from Career Opportunities Groups”, International Conference on New Trends in Computing Sciences (IEEE), Amman, Jordan, 2017

  11. May Itani, Sanaa Sharafeddine and Islam Elkabani, “Dynamic Single Node Failure Recovery in Distributed Storage Systems”, Computer Networks, Vol 113, 84-93, Elsevier, 2017

  12. Suhad A. Yousif, Venus W. Samawi and Islam Elkabani, “Arabic Text Classification: The Effect of the AWN Relations Weighting Scheme”, The World Congress on Engineering 2017 WCE 2017, London, U.K., Volume: Vol II, July 2017

  13. May Itani, Sanaa Sharafeddine and Islam Elkabani, “Practical Multiple Node Failure Recovery Using Fractional Repetition Codes in Data Centers", in Proceedings of The Twenty-First IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC 2016), pp. 901-907, 2016, doi:10.1109/ISCC.2016.7543851

  14. Islam Elkabani, Lama Hamandi, Rached Zantout and Simar Mansi, “Improving Web Accessibility”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 11, No. 12, 7836-7845, 2016

  15. Salma Ghali, Islam Elkabani and Rached Zantout, “A Multilingual Interactive Workspace for Helping the Visually Impaired Learn and Practice Algebra”, 15th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2016), in Proceedings of Universal Learning Design (ULD), pp. 21-30, Linz, Austria, July 2016

  16. May Itani, Sanaa Sharafeddine and Islam Elkabani, “Practical Single Node Failure Recovery Using Fractional Repetition Codes in Data Centers”, in the Proceedings of 2016 IEEE 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), Crans-Montana, Switzerland, March 2016, pp. 762-768

  17. Islam Elkabani, Lama Hamandi, Rached Zantout and Simar Mansi, "Toward better web accessibility" in the Proceedings of 2015 5th International Conference on Information & Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA), Marrakech, 2015

  18. Islam Elkabani and Rached Zantout, "A framework for helping the visually impaired learn and practice math" in the Proceedings of 2015 5th International Conference on Information & Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA), Marrakech, 2015

  19. Suhad A. Yousif, Venus W. Samawi, Islam Elkabani and Rached Zantout, “Enhancement of Arabic Text Classification Using Semantic Relations with Part of Speech Tagger”, in the Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering and Data Bases (AIKED '15), Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, January 2015

  20. Islam El kabani, Roaa Aboo Khashfeh, “Homophily Based Link Prediction in The Facebook Online Social Network: A Rough Sets Approach”, Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol 24, No. 4, 491-503, 2015

  21. Suhad A. Yousif, Venus W. Samawi, Islam Elkabani and Rached Zantout, “Enhancement of Arabic Text Classification Using Semantic Relations of Arabic WordNet”, Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 11, No. 3, 498-509, 2015

  22. Bassam Elmasri, Islam Elkabani, Rached Zantout, “An Interactive Workspace for Helping the Visually Impaired Learn Linear Algebra”. ICCHP(1)2014:572-579

  23. Sanaa Kaddoura, Islam Elkabani, “ASP-SSN: An Effective Approach for Linking Semantic Social Networks”, International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology (IJCSIT), Vol 4, No. 5, October 2012

  24. Maher Itani, Lama Hamandi, Rached Zantout, Islam Elkabani, “Classifying Sentiments in Arabic Social Networks: Naïve Search versus Naïve Bayes”, in Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools of Engineering Applications (IEEE ACTEA’2012)

  25. Layal Abu Daher, Islam Elkabani, “Usability Evaluation of Some Lebanese Universities Web Portals”, in Proceedings of the 13th International Arab Conference on Information Technology ACIT’2012

  26. Islam Elkabani, Enrico Pontelli, Son Cao Tran, “SmodelsA - A System for Computing Answer Sets of Logic Programs with Aggregates” in Proceedings of LPNMR 2005, Diamante, Italy, 2005

  27. Islam Elkabani, Enrico Pontelli, Son Cao Tran , “Smodels with CLP and its Applications: A simple and Effective Approach to Aggregates in ASP”, in Proceedings of ICLP 2004: Saint Malo, France, 2004

  28. Enrico Pontelli, Tran Cao Son, and Islam Elkabani, “A Treatment of Aggregates in ASP (System Description)”, in Proceedings of LPNMR 7th, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, 2003

Ongoing research and Projects


  1. Synthesis and optimization of quantum/reversible circuits with better quantum cost and/or gate count using different approaches, e.g. evolutionary algorithms, group theory and heuristics.

  2. Designing Quantum Algorithms to solve computational problems faster than classical algorithms.

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