Welcome to the Third Mosharaka International Conference on Communications, Computers and Applications (MIC-CCA2009). This event is intended to represent a major forum for researchers, engineers and students from all over the world to meet in Amman to present their latest research results and to exchange new ideas and practical experience in communication systems and networks, computer science and engineering, communications and computer applications and technologies, and intelligent data engineering. Coming to Jordan represents a unique opportunity to witness the embrace of history and future. As small in area as it is, Jordan has a rich history spanning thousands of years, that a tourist can only admire. Places like Petra and the Dead Sea are examples of the many one-of-a-kind places to visit in Jordan. Amman, the capital of Jordan, is a living model of a large and modern city that has all kinds of tourist attractions. On top of all that, Jordan, as a peaceful country in a turbulent area, enjoys extreme levels of safety and security. Jordanian people are internationally known for generosity, hospitality and cultural awareness and tolerance.

MIC-CCA2009 is the third edition of Mosharaka International Conference on Communications, Computers and Applications. In each of the first two editions, the conference received more than 100 paper submissions. After rigorous peer reviewing, the average number of accepted papers was 60.

Only full paper submissions are allowed at all Mosharaka International Conferences, including MIC-CCA. The traditions of rigorous peer reviewing and accepting only the top quality papers will continue in MIC-CCA2009. Our outstanding reviewing process is facilitated by careful selection of technical program committee members from among the best international experts doing research in the conference topics. Each submitted paper is subject to no less than two peer reviews before it can be considered for acceptance.

At each Mosharaka International Conference, and based on paper review scores, the paper with the highest scores receives the Best Paper Award. This a cash award to which only presented papers are eligible. The best paper is usually delivered to the presenter of the winning paper at the main conference dinner. The following paper has won the MIC-CCA2008 best paper award:

Auto Calibration in Drift Aware Wireless Sensor Networks using The Interacting Multiple Model Algorithm, by Maen Takruri, Subhash Challa and Rajib Chakravorty.

In recognition of the quality of papers accepted at Mosharaka International Conferences, several conferences including MIC-CCA2008, have been technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society. You can access MIC-CCA papers at the IEEE Xplore website HERE. A special issue of the Academy Publisher Journal of Networks is being organized based on accepted MIC-CCA2008 papers.

General Conference Chairman

Mohammad M. Banat Jordan University of Science and Technology Jordan

Conference Organizer

Jaser K. Mahasneh Mosharaka for Researches and Studies Jordan

Organizing Committee

Maaruf Ali Oxford Brookes University United Kingdom Eduard Babulak Fairleigh Dickinson University - Vancouver Canada Mohamed K. Nezami Philadelphia University Jordan Rami S Qahwaji University of Bradford United Kingdom Nizar Zorba University of Jordan Jordan

Technical Program Committee

Gheith A. Abandah University of Jordan Jordan Mamun Ibrahim Abu-Tair Queen's University of Belfast United Kingdom Robert Akl University of North Texas United States Noura Aknin Abdelmalek Essaâdi University Morocco Monther Aldwairi Jordan University of Science and Technology Jordan Maaruf Ali Oxford Brookes University United Kingdom Mohamad Yusoff Alias Multimedia University Malaysia Haider M. AlSabbagh Basra University Iraq Ali Amer Saudi Telecom Company Saudi Arabia Mohamad Aoude Lebanese International University Lebanon Meysam Asgari Amirkabir University of Tehran (AUT) Iran Timothy Kwadwo Asiedu TIM Technology Services Ghana Baber Aslam University of Central Florida United States Eduard Babulak Fairleigh Dickinson University - Vancouver Canada Behnam Banitalebi Shiraz University Iran Jaume Barcelo Universitat Pompeu Fabra Spain Yassine Bouslimani University of Moncton Canada Angel Bravo-Santos Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Spain Francesc Burrull Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena Spain Chih-Liang Chen National Chiao Tung University Taiwan Omar Daoud Philadelphia University Jordan Khaled Daqrouq Philadelphia University Jordan Nihad I Dib Jordan University of Science and Technology Jordan Sener Dikmese Kocaeli University Turkey Mohamed Fezari University of Annaba Algeria Santiago J. Flores Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Spain Lamia Chaari Fourati Institut Supérieur d'Informatique et Multimédia de Sfax Tunisia Labib Gergis Misr Academy Egypt Zabih Ghassemlooy Northumbria University United Kingdom Lorenza Giupponi Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) Spain Visvasuresh Victor Govindaswamy Texas A&M University United States Ahmad Hassan Taibah University Saudi Arabia Oliver D Holland King's College London United Kingdom Ali Jamoos Al-Quds University Palestine George Karetsos Center for Technological Research of Thessaly (CTRT) Greece Timo O. Korhonen Helsinki University of Technology Finland Anoop Kumar Krishna European Aeronautic Defence and Space (EADS) Company Singapore Rakhesh Singh Kshetrimayum IIT Guwahati India Shishir Kumar Jaypee Institute of Engineering & Technology India Chae-Woo Lee Ajou University Korea Huan-Bang Li National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Japan Jun Li Communications Research Centre Canada Mingqi Li Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, CAS China Josemaria Malgosa-Sanahuja Polytechnic University of Cartagena Spain Abdelhamid Mammeri University of Sherbrooke Canada Abbas Mohammed Blekinge Institute of Technology Sweden Mohamed K. Nezami Philadelphia University Jordan Ales Prokes Brno University of Technology Czech Republic Omar Ramadan Eastern Mediterranean University Turkey Suryakari Nagaraja Rao J.N.T. University-Hyderabad India Abdul Razaque Rind Allama I.I.Qazi Sindh University Jamshoro Sindh Pakistan Sattar B. Sadkhan University of Babylon Iraq Ahmed M. Salama University of Mosul Iraq Peddoju Sateesh Kumar J.N.T University India Ala Sharaiha IETR-Université de Rennes 1 France Asrar U. Sheikh King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Saudi Arabia Pierre Siohan France Telecom France Mahmoud A. Smadi Hashemite University Jordan Vladimir Stankovic University of Strathclyde United Kingdom Larbi Talbi University of Quebec Canada Tomohiko Taniguchi Fujitsu Laboratories Japan Tammam Tillo Politecnico di Torino Italy George S Tombras University of Athens Greece Sandip Vijay IIT India Alexey Vinel Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation Russia Duduku V Viswacheda University Malaysia Sabah Malaysia Vishal Wankhede Pune University India Jiping Xiong Zhejiang Normal University China Arwa H. Zabian Irbid National University Jordan Nizar Zorba University of Jordan Jordan Stanislav Zvanovec Czech Technical University in Prague Czech Republic

CCAT	Communications and Computer Applications and Technologies	Submit
CSE	Computer Science and Engineering	Submit
IDE	Intelligent Data Engineering	Submit

3G Systems and Beyond	Ad Hoc Networks	Artificial Intelligence
Biocomputing	Cluster Computing	Clustering and Cooperative Strategies
Coding, Modulation & Equalization	Communication Theory	Communications QoS and Reliability
Communications Software	Compilers	Computational Intelligence
Computer Architecture	Computer Vision	Congestion Control Mechanisms
Cross-Layer Designs	Data Management	Data Mining
Data Structures	Database Engineering	Digital Audio & Video Broadcasting
Distributed Agents	Distributed and Parallel Computing	E-Commerce
Embedded Systems	End-to-End QoS Provision	Expert Systems
Fault-Tolerant Systems	Fixed/Mobile Networks Integration	Fuzzy Systems
Genetic Algorithms	Gigabit Networks	Graphical User Interfaces
Grid Computing	Heterogeneous Computing	Human-Computer Interfaces
IMT-2000 (UMTS, CDMA2000, etc.)	Information Theory and Coding	Intelligent Control
Interference Mitigation and Management	Internetworking	IP and Multimedia Services
Knowledge-Based Systems	Location-Based Services and Positioning	M-Commerce
Machine Intelligence	Middleware Platforms	MIMO Techniques and Space-Time Coding
Mobile Agents	Mobile Computing	Mobile Data Services
Mobile Multimedia	Mobility Management	Multicarrier and OFDM Techniques
Multicasting	Multimedia Communications	Network Convergence
Network Intelligence	Network Management	Network Measurements and Testbeds
Network Modelling and Simulation	Network Optimization	Network Performance
Network Protocols	Network Reliability	Network Security and Privacy
Neural Networks	Object-Oriented Systems	Operating Systems
Optical Communication Systems and Networks	Parallel Computer Architectures	Pattern Recognition
Peer-to-Peer Computing	Personal Communications	Pervasive Computing
Power Management and Control	Programming Languages	Propagation and Channel Modeling
Radio Resource Management	Real-Time Systems	Satellite and Space Communications
Self Organization and Network Reconfiguration	Sensor Networks	Signal Processing Techniques
Smart Antennas	Software Engineering	Software-Defined Radio
Spectrum Sharing and Co-Existence	Speech Processing	Spread Spectrum Techniques
Supercomputing	Switching and Routing	Telemedicine
Traffic Engineering	Ultra-Wideband Communications	Visualization and Computer Graphics
VoIP Services and Technologies	Web Authoring and Programming	Web Computing
Wireless Access Techniques	Wireless and Mobile IP	Wireless ATM
Wireless LANs and PANs	Wireless Multimedia	Wireless WANs

Author Notifications	26 September 2009
Final Paper Submission	16 October 2009
Registration Deadline	16 October 2009

Title	Applied Image Processing and Machine Learning: a Multidisciplinary Perspective
Speaker	Dr. Rami Qahwaji University of Bradford, United Kingdom
Summary	Image processing techniques are receiving increasing interest because of their different applications in the fields of medical imaging, remote-sensing, satellites and space, security, video processing, games, content-based image retrieval, etc. Machine learning algorithms are also becoming increasingly important in real-life applications that deal with classification, verification, optimisation, prediction, etc. This talk will focus on recent advances in both disciplines and will pay special attention to the challenges and opportunities facing the integration of learning algorithms in the design and implementation of automatic and/or real-time imaging systems. The talk will also provide a brief description for the state-of-the-art and will identify open research problems that need to be resolved along with some future research directions.
Speaker Biography	Dr Rami Qahwaji is a Reader in Visual Computing in the Informatics Research Institute at the University of Bradford. Dr Qahwaji received a first class BSc honours degree in Electrical Engineering (University of Mustansiriyah - Baghdad) followed by an MSc in Control and Computer Engineering from the same university and finally a PhD in Computer Vision Systems in 2002 from the University of Bradford. His research interests include: satellites imaging, medical imaging, biometrics, watermarking, 3D image representation, signal processing and machine learning. He is the principal investigator for the 3-year EPSRC grant (EP/F022948/1), which is entitled “Image Processing, Machine Learning and Geometric Modelling for the 3D Representation of Solar Features” (296K). He was also the principal investigator for the 3-year EPSRC grant (GR/T17588/01) entitled “Image Processing and Machine Learning Techniques for Short-Term Prediction of Solar Activity”, value £125K. He was also involved in 2 small EPSRC grants GR/S62758/01, value £13.7K and GR/S84699/01, value £13.7K, and is currently doing consultancy work for Hines Engineering ltd – Bradford, which is funded by the innovation vouchers – Yorkshire Forward. He is also a member of a newly formed international team that is funded by the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) (Bern, Switzerland) that will work to establish European network for processing solar satellites data in Europe. His publications include around 85 refereed journal papers and conference proceedings, 30 conference presentations and 7 PhD completions. He was invited to give talks in the UK, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and the USA. He is Charted Engineer (CEng), a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA) and a member of various professional organisations such as IET, IEEE, IASTED, AGU, etc. He has refereed research proposals for different grant awarding bodies such as the Royal Society, British Council, Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) and King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM – KSA). He is also a reviewer for several international journals such as IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, IET Image Processing, IET Proc. Radar, Sonar & Navigation, Patter Recognition Letters, Neural Computing and Applications, Signal Processing, Solar Physics, and others. He is the conference Co-Chair for the International Conference on Cyberworlds 2009 (UK) and also (CSAA09) (Egypt). He is the Guest editor for special issues of the Virtual Reality Journal (Springer) and the Visual Computer (Springer) and is the Editor of the Proceedings of the International Conference on Cyberworlds 2009.

Authors of accepted papers can register by sending the camera ready versions of their papers along with a scan of the registration fee payment (see details of how to make the payment below). Authors of multiple accepted papers (up to three per author) will be required to pay a single registration fee. Please send registration documents above to banat@mosharaka.net.

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Registration Fees Regular Regiatration 400 € Student Registration 200 € Payment Methods Bank Transfer To the order of: Mosharaka for Researches and Studies;P.O. Box (60), Jerash(26111), Jordan Bank Bank of Jordan, P.O. Box (2140), Al-Shmeisani, Amman (11181), Jordan Swift Code BJORJOAX Account No. 0343050848792004 MoneyGram – Western Union To the order of: Jaser Khalaf Mahasneh Chairman of Mosharaka for Researches and Studies P.O. Box (60), Jerash(26111), Jordan Mobile No. +962/7/77835611 +962/7/97160169

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MIC-CCA2009 will be held at Days Inn-Amman Hotel. This elegant is located in one of the most beutiful areas of Amman. Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA) is around 30 minutes away. Taxis are available outside the terminals. Shuttle buses also link QAIA with Amman’s Abdali city center terminal every half-hour between 06.00 and 23.00 and every hour between 23.00 - 06.00.

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