Ahmed Z Emam 
 


Adjunct Faculty

 
Contact Information

Dept. of Computer Science
Western Kentucky University
1906 College Heights Blvd
Bowling Green
KY 42101-1000
USA

Tel. No. 1-270-784-1786
Email     Ahmed.emam@wku.edu



Educational Information

  • 1995 MS in Computer Science, University of Cairo
  • 1998 MS in Computer Science, University of Louisville
  • 2000 Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Louisville
    Thesis Title: Profile Association Rule Mining from Mixed Database


Research Interest

  • Data Mining
  • Text Mining
  • Information Retrieval System
  • Database and Data Wearhouse


Employment Information

  1. Assistance Professor in Computer Science department at Western Kentucky University

  2. Assistance Professor in Computer Science department at Menoufiya University from July 2003 till now

  3. Part time Assistance Professor in Computer Science and Information School at 6 Oct. University of Louisville
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Publications in Refereed Journals
  1. Ahmed Emam, Nabawia Elramley and Hany Harb, “A new Heuristic algorithm for query processing in distributed database environment “, Journal of Science, Menoufia University Nov. 1994

  2. Ahmed Emam and Hany Harb, “Processor Assignment in Expert Database System”, Journal of Science, Menoufia University Feb.1996

  3. Ashraf Abdelwahab, Ahmed Emam, Hokey Min, and Adel Elmaghraby, "Sensitivity of Inductive Decision Trees in Commercial Data Mining Tools. " The Egyptian Computer Journal , Vol. 29, No. 2 , 2001

  4. Min Hokey, Hyesung Min, and Emam Ahmed,”A Data Mining approach to developing the profile of hotel customers”, International Journal of Contemporary Hosptility Management, Vol. 14 No. 6, 2002

  5. Min, Hokey and Emam Ahmed,”Developing The Profile Truck Drivers For Their Successful Recruitment And Retention : A Data Mining Approach”, Accepted and will appear in International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistic Management

  6. Emam, Min, Min Hokey “ A novel approach for Incremental Sampling Association Rule Mining ”, submitted to IEEE Transaction in Knowledge and Data Engineering

  7. Emam , “ A novel approach for Incremental Association Rule Mining ”, Al-Azhar University Engineering Journal, AUEJ, Vol. 8, N. 7 Jan. 2005
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Book Publications
  1. Min, Hokey and Emam Ahmed,” A data mining approach to understanding the effects of expertise and experiential learning on purchasing negotiations”, book chapter in Kluwer Academic Publishers- in press

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Recent Publications in Refereed Proceedings
  1. “Sensitivity of Inductive Decision Trees in Commercial Data mining Tools”, submitted to The 1st IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Cairo, 2002

  2. Min, Hokey, Emam, Ahmed, and Ko, Hyun-Jeung, "Benchmarking Supermarket Service Quality Using the Competitive Gap Analysis." Proceedings of the International INFORMS Conference, Seoul, Korea (June, 2000)

  3. Emam, Min, Hokey, Elmaghraby, and Kanardzic, “ A novel approach for Profile Association rule Mining from Mixed database”, 6th world Multiconference on Systemics, Cyberntics and Informatics (SCI2002), Orlando, Florida, July 14-17 2002

  4. Emam A., Elramly N., El-Marsey S., Abotable A., “ Toward designing Healthy Dietitian meal”, Submitted to High Institute of Computer Science and Statistical Conference, Dec. 2004

  5. Emam A.“ A novel approach for Incremental Association Rule Mining”, Al-Azhar Engineering International Conference, DEC. 24-27, 2004

  6. Negm N., Emam A, El-Ramly N., Torkey F.,” Incremental Mining of Association Rule Without using Old Dataset”, The 30th Intenational Conference for Statistics, Computer Science, and its Applications, 23-28 April 2005

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Reviewer and Speaker
  1. Invited Speaker in Computer Science and Computer Engineering Ph.D Seminar

  2. Reviewer for Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation (KSEF) for Data Mining Projects

  3. Reviewer for Information and Computer Science Association (ISCA) from 2000

  4. Conference of Topology, Ras Elbar , Egypt from July 27-29, 2003

  5. Reviewer for Mobile Data communication Book by Hossini Boldugei

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Member
  1. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) from 1997 till Now

  2. IBM Scholar for Websphare and DB2

  3. Publicity Chair for Signal Processing and Information Technology (IEEE-SPIT) Conference, Roma-Italy Dec. 2004

  4. Information and Communication Technology Program (ICTP)- National Project , Management Information System and E-Learning Principle Investigator

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Rewards
  1. Best excellent undergraduate student in Ain Shams University, Faculty, faculty of Science, 1986

  2. Best Graduate Assistance in Logistic and Distribution Institute (LODI), University of Louisville from October 1998 to May 20022

  3. Special Award Judge for IEEE Computer Science in 2002 International Science and Engineering Fair

  4. Best Thesis Award from Speed School for year 2002-3003, University of Louisville, USA

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