Ph.D.
CURRICULUM VITAE
December 2012
Name
: Abu Maria, Khulood Mohammad Jamil
Office Address
: CIS Department – Faculty of Sciences and IT Al Zaytoonah University -11733 – Amman – Jordan.
Home Address
: Marj Al Hamam-Amman-Jordan.
Date of Birth
: Mar. 30.1971.
Place of Birth
: Al Zarqa – Jordan.
Nationality
: Jordanian.
Marital Status
: Married.
Email Address
: Khulood20021@yahoo.com,
Khulood@zuj.edu.jo
Phone No. (Office)
: 00 269 – 6 -1924944 / ext. 347
Mobile No.
: 079-5849984
University Education:
Ph.D., 2008
: Computer Information System (CIS)
Thesis title: Agent-Based Emotional ntelligent
Model With Applications.
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Research Synopsis:
The thesis proposes modeling of artificial emotions through agents based
on symbolic approach. The symbolic approach utilizes symbolic
emotional rule-based systems with continuous interactions with
environment and internal “thinking” machinery that comes because of
series of inferences, evaluation, evolution processes, adaptation, learning
and emotions.
We propose a general, flexible, and powerful architecture to build software agents that embed artificial emotions. The proposed agent possesses rational knowledge and reactive capabilities, and interacts with the external world, including other agents. Therefore, we want to develop artificial mechanisms that can play the role emotions play in natural life. We call these mechanisms “Artificial Emotions”. We investigate if artificial emotional control can improve performance of agents in some circumstances. We introduce a model that is base on both symbolic and computational relations. The main contribution of this thesis is to present emotions as a valid approach to improve the behavior of artificial agents. Moreover, we present a systematic view of the kinds of emotions that can take place, assuming emotions are processes involving assessment, emotion-signal generation, and emotion-response. To come across emotions, an agent needs to incorporate a deeper model of Personality, Mood and Sensitivity. We propose EMAM (Emotional Agent Model) for
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this purpose. EMAM-Agent can generate emotions signals, evaluate and assess events, taking into account the integration of Personality, Mood, Sensitivity, Feeling and Motivational States. EMAM takes proper actions or plans for actions (sequence of actions). Two different applications such as Material Requirement Planning (as business application) and Orphanage Care Application (as social application) are incorporate to demonstrate the use of EMAM emotional agent. We use Netlogo as an agent programming language, which is an agent-oriented language to simulate and implement our proposed models.
In our agent-based applications tow models are build; one is support with artificial emotions and the other one without emotions. We use both in solving the two-benchmark problems. The two systems are simulated and results are comparing. Our study shows that systems with proper model of emotions can perform in many cases better than systems without emotions. We try to shed the light here on how artificial emotions can be modeled in a simple rule-based agent systems and if emotions as they exist in “real intelligence” can be helpful for “artificial intelligence agents”. Our proposed emotional intelligent agent architectures are present as a generic blueprint on which the design of agents of that type is base. Our focus is on the functional design, including flow of information and control.
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M.Sc., 2002
: Information Technology.
B.Sc., 1992
: Computer Science
Employment:
Feb. 2009 – Present
Al-Zaytoonah University
Assistant Prof. Of Computer Information System.
Feb. 2008 – 2009
Al-Isra University
Part time- Assistant Prof. Of Management Information System.
Dec. 1992 – 2006
Petra Engineering Industries Co.
IT Manager
Research and Publications
Research Areas
- Artificial Intelligent
- Intelligent Agents
- Agent Based System (application)
- Mobile Application
- E-planning
- E-manufacturing
- E-management
- Software Engineering
Research Projects and Research Grants
List of Projects:
Papers Presented at international Conferences:
1- Sana’a J.Khalaf and Khulood Abu Maria,“An Empirical study of XP: the case of Jordan”, Jeju Island, South Korea, December 18 – 19, 2009.
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List of Publications:
1- Khulood Abu Maria and Raed Abu Zatir,”Emotional Agents: A Model And An Application”, International Journal of Information and Software Technology, An Elsevier Publishing Journal, Volume 49, Issue 6, June 2007.
2- Khulood Abu Maria and Raed Abu Zatir , Chapter XV: “Emotional Agent Modeling (EMAM)”, in a book published by IGI Inc.: “Simulation and Modeling: Current Technologies and Applications”, 2007.
3- Khulood Abu Maria and Raed Abu Zatir , Chapter 6: “Modeling of artificial emotions and its application towards a healthy environment, “in a book published an international Editor, 9008, Editor was Mattheus (Theo) Goosen, NYIT University.
4- Mohammad A. Alia, Adnan A. Hnaif, Hayam K. Al-Anie , Khulood Abu Maria, Ahmed M. Manasrah, M. Imran Sarwar, A Novel Header Matching Algorithm for Intrusion Detection Systems, International Journal of Network Security & Its Applications (IJNSA), in press.
Teaching and Supervision
Teaching Experience
- Information System
- Decision Support System
- Formation Technology
- Strategic Management
- Packages
- System Analysis and Design
- Computer Application for Management
- Computer Skills
- E-application
- System Analysis -Object Oriented
Undergraduate Supervision
Professional Activities:
Program Committee:
Information System Analysis, Design, and Building
Networking
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Data Base Management
Programming
All IS & IT Tasks & Skills
Quality Control & TQM
References:
Dr. Abed Al Fatah Yehia
Position: Dean of CS and IT Faculty – Al-Zaytoneh University.
E-mail: science@alzaytoonah.edu.jo
