CURRICULUM VITAE Mar 2011 1. PERSONAL DATA Name Safaai ...

1. PERSONAL DATA 

CURRICULUM VITAE 

Mar 2011 

Name Safaai bin Deris 

Office Address Center for Information and Communication Technology 

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 

81310 UTM Skudai, 

Johor. 

Department of Software Engineering 

Fakulti Sains Komputer dan Sistem Maklumat 


81310 UTM Skudai, 

Johor. 

Home Address No. 28 Jalan Pulai 74, 

Taman Pulai Utama, 

81300 Skudai, 

Johor, MALAYSIA 

Telephone Office - 07-553 3033 

H/P - 019 756 9202 

e-mail safaai@utm.my 

Place of Birth Pasir Puteh, Kelantan 

Date of Birth 13 Aug 1955 

Sex Male 

Race Malay 

Language Malay, English, Japanese 

2. AREA OF EXPERTISE 

2.1 Main Area of Expertise 

- Artificial Intelligence and intelligent systems 

- Planning and Scheduling 

- Software Engineering 

- Bioinformatics, computational biology and system biology 

- Specific area of interest include 

o Optimization and costraint satisfaction techniques 

o Genetic algorithms and bio-inspired tehniques 

o Reactive systems, reactive scheduling, dynamic scheduling 

o System biology and in silico modeling and simulation 

o Application of AI/OR techniques in planning, scheduling and 

timetabling 

o Application of AI and statistical techniques in bioinformatics 

o Software engineering – analysis and design using UML and 

Unified Process, system and software development, formal 

method, architecture and design 

o Application of AI techniques in data mining and pattern 

processing 

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3. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS 

1973 – 1978 B. Sc, Universiti Pertanian Malaysia, Serdang Selangor 

Thesis: Chemistry and Mineralogy of Some Selected Malaysian Soils. 

1980 – 1981 

1985 – 1986 

1986 – 1987 

Post-Graduate Diploma in Integrated Surveys: 

A Multi-disciplinary Investigations for Integrated Development 

Planning 

International Institute for Aerial Surveys and Earth Sciences (ITC), 

Enschede, The Netherlands. 

(11 months: June 1980 – June 1981) 

Certificate in Japanese Language, Osaka University of Foreign 

Studies, Minoo-shi, Osaka, Japan. 

(6 months: October 1985 – March 1986) 

Research Student, Department of Industrial Engineering, College of 

Engineering, University of Osaka Prefecture, Sakai, Osaka, Japan. 

(1 year: 1 April 1986 – 31 March 1987) 

1987-1989 Master in Engineering (Industrial Engineering), 

University of Osaka Prefecture, Sakai, Osaka, Japan. 

Specialization: Statistical and Mathematical Engineering – Artificial 

Intelligence and Operations Research Applications in Industry and 

Manufacturing 

Thesis: Intelligent Decision Support System for Production 

Planning. 

(2 years: 1 April 1987 – 31 March 1989) 

1995 – 1997 

4. CURRENT POSITION 

Doctor of Engineering in Computer and System Sciences, 

Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, Japan. 

Thesis: Studies on Intelligent Optimisation Techniques for Planning, 

Scheduling, and Timetabling 

(April 1995 – March 1998) 

Feb 09 – Feb 2011 Director 

Center for Communication and Information Technology 


5. EMPLOYEMENT 

Sep 05 – Jan 2009 Deputy Dean 

School of Graduate Studies 



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Mac 02 – Jun 06 Information Technology Manager 

School of Post-Graduate Studies 

Univerisiti Teknologi Malaysia 

Nov 02 – May 06 Program Coodinator, MSc (Comp. Sc) – IKIP, Pahang 

Jul 98 – Jun 02 Head of Software Engineering Department 

Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems,UTM 

Nov 04 – present Professor, 

Lecturer, Faculty of Computer Science and Information 

Systems, 

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor. 

Aug 97 – Nov 04 

Associate Professor, 

Lecturer, Faculty of Computer Science and Information 

Systems, 


Apr 96 – Aug 97 Senior Lecturer, Head of Artificial Intelligence Panel 

Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, 


Jan 96 – Apr 96 Lecturer, Head of Artificial Intelligence Panel 



Jun 92 – Dec 95 Lecturer, 


Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Jalan Semarak, Kuala Lumpur. 

Apr 89 – Jun 92 Course Coordinator (Computer and Information Technology) 

Agricultural Extension Training Institute (ILPP), 

Department of Agriculture, Serdang, Selangor. 

Apr 83 – Sep 85 Farm Management Officer, Department of Agriculture, 

Kota Bharu, Kelantan. 

Apr 78 – Mar 83 Monitoring and Evaluation Officer 

North Kelantan Rural Development Project, 

Ministry of Agriculture, Kota Bharu, Kelantan. 

6. OTHER POSITIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

Nov 92 – Jan 94 Post Graduate Coordinator, 

Chairman, Postgraduate Committee 

Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, UTM 

Jul 93 – Oct 93 Covering Deputy Dean, (Academic) 


Jan 93 – Dec 95 Head of Decision Support System Laboratory 


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Jul 93 – Dec 95 Head of Graphic Laboratory, 


Nov 94 – Oct 96 Head of Artificial and Computational Intelligence Panel 


Jan 94 – De 97 System Manager, 

Advanced Computing Laboratory (Supercomputer), 


Nov 94 – Nov 94 Covering Head of Department of Information System, 


Jun 95 – Jun 96 Consultancy Manager, Software Technology Institute, 


Aug 97 – present Member of Research and Development Committee 


Aug 97 – present Member of Development and Infrastructures Committee 


1994 – 1997 Member of Institute of Environmental Studies 


1998 – 2005 Member of Aerospace, Communication and Information 

Technology Research Focus Group, 


1999 – 2005 Member of Contract Technical Specification Committee 

Universiti Technology Malaysia 

7. NATIONAL AND UNIVERSITY LEVEL COMMITTEE 

2009 - 2011 JK Pengurusan & Pentadbiran CICT 

2009 - 2011 JK Pengurusan Universiti 

2009 - 2011 JK Kumpulan Pengurusan Universiti 

2009 - 2011 JK Senat Uninversiti 

2009 - 2011 JK Pemudahcara Universiti 

2009 - 2011 JK Perolehan Universiti 

2009 - 2011 JK Induk Konvokesyen 

2009 - 2011 JK Eksekutif HEPA 

2009 - 2011 Majlis Pengarah-Pengarah ICT IPTA (MAPITA) 

2009 - 2011 JK Pemandu Web 

2009 - present Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatic Group (AIBIG) – 

Research Group Head 

2009 - present National Grid Technical committee 

2005 – 2008 Senate Sub-committee on Library – member 

2005 – 2008 Senate Sub-committee on Graduate studies – member 

2005 – 2008 Senate Sub-committee on Teachiing and learning – member 

2005 – 2008 Senate Sub-committee on New departments and programs – 

member 


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2005 – 2008 UTM committee on Research and development – member 

2005 – 2008 Senate Sub-committee on IP and copyright – member 

2005 – 2008 Graduate studies academic management cpmmittee 

2000 - 2005 Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (MOSTE), 

IGS grant technical evaluation panel 

2000 - 2005 Ministry of Education (MOE), LAN accreditation panel for IPTA 

and IPTS 

1995 – 1998 Environmental Institute, UTM – Member 

1995 – 2005 Advanced Manufacturing Group, UTM – Member 

1998 – 2005 Aerospace, Communication, and Information Technology, 

(ACIT) Focus Group – Member 

1998 – 2005 Tender Technical Specification Evaluation Committee, UTM 

8. RESEARCH EXPERIENCES 

Research position: 

• Head of Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics Group (AIBIG) 

• Head of Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics Laboratory (AIBIL) 

Organisation – Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics Laboratory (AIBIL) 

• No. of grants: 7 IRPA + 1 contract research 

RM900,000 

• eScience 9 

RM1,500,000.00 

• Researchers: 6 lecturers 

• PhD research student: 16 – Ongoing, 8 - completed 

• MSc research student: 4 – Ongoing, 15 - completed 

• RO/RA: 6 

• Hardware IBM cluster: 16 nodes, 32 CPU, 16 GB RAM, 1.44 Gflops cluster 

• Hardware: 20 PCs, 2 Sun Workstation 

• Database (DBMS): Oracle , SQL Server, Access, MySQL, PostGres 

• Development tools: Imprise JBuilder (Java), Allegro CL (LISP), 

C++ Builder, Oracle Developer, python 

• CASE tool: Rational Suite UML 

Research areas: 

• Planning and scheduling 

• Intelligent and mobile agents 

• Adaptive and reactive system 

• Formal methods in software engineering 

• Biocomputing and bioinformatics 

Major techniques: 

• Knowledge-based/Intelligent techniques 

• Constraint-based reasoning 

• Genetic algorithms 

• Case-based reasoning 

• Backboard technology (distributed artificial intelligence) 

• Neural networks 

• Fuzzy logic/system 

• Formal methods/formal specification and verification 


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Application areas: 

• Maintenance scheduling 

• University/college/school timetabling 

• Staff/Employee scheduling (nurse, radiographer, film processor) 

• Bioinformatics – Sequence analysis 

• Bioinformatics - Genome/protein structure prediction/sequencing 

• Bioinformatics – Gene expression analysis 

• Bioinformatics – Bio Databases and data mining 

• Bioinformatics – Protein visualization 

• Early warning system/emergency and crisis management 

• Soil/Crop classification 

• Data mining and knowledge discovery 

Major finding: 

• Knowledge-based systems development techniques 

• Hybrid algorithms for planning and scheduling 

• Reactive system using case-based reasoning 

• Genome classification techniques 

• Secondary structure prediction techniques 

Technologies under development: 

• Intelligent agent architecture for reactive system 

• Mobile agent architecture and techniques 

• Agent development methodology 

• Reactive system/reactive scheduling using blackboard technology and 

Case-based reasoning 

• Distributed inventory management system 

• Genome analysis techniques 

• Protein function and structure prediction 

Research partners: 

• Royal Malaysian Navy 

• Lyonnaise Des Eaux/Equiventures Sdn Bhd 

• UMS (University Malaysia Sabah) 

• USM Hospital University –Kota Bahru 

• Medical Online Sdn Bhd (MSC Company) 

Major commercializeable products/systems developed 

• Radiology Information System (RIS) 

• Integrated Water Treatment Management Information System 

• Reactive university timetabling system 

• Factory Production Planning and Control System 

• Integrated Production and Accounting Management Information Systems 

(IPAMIS) 

8.1 Current Research Projects – eScience 

a) In-silico cell factory for protein and biochemical production (Vit B) of 

Lactoccocus lactis – Vot 73744, Jan 2010 – Dec 2011, Grant MGI (Malaysian 

Genome Institute – MOSTI. 

8.2 Completed Research Projects – IRPA and e-Science 

Software Engineering 


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a) Tools for Component-Oriented Programming of Embedded Real-Time 

Software – 01-01-06-SF0232, Sept 07–Feb 09, Collaborator. 

b) Framework for Component-Based Software Engineering of Embedded 

Software in Resource Constrained Real-Time Systems – 01-01-06-SF0001, 

Dec 06–May 08, Collaborator. 

c) Development of Smart Monitoring System (Ad Hoc Sensor Networks for River 

Pollution and Electric Discharge Monitoring) – 01-01-06-SF0117, Dec 06-May 

08, Project Leader. 

d) Design framework of agent software based on pattern, 01-01-06-SF0441, 

Dec 2007 – Jun 2009, Collaborator. 

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 

e) The Development of a Tool using Bayesian Network Technique for 

Constructing Gene Network from Microarray Gene Expression Data – 01-01- 

06-SF0300, Sept 07–Feb 09, Project Leader. 

f) The Development of Classification Tool Using Intelligent Techniques for 

Cancer Disease Classification from Microarray Gene Expression Data – 01-01- 

06-SF0035, Dec 06-May 08, Project Leader. 

g) The Development of Feature Selection Tool for Classification of Microarrays 

Gene Expression Data Using Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques – 

01-01-06-SF0068, Dec 06-Dec 08, Collaborator 

h) The Development of Automata Learning and Stochastic Modeling for 

Biosequence Analysis – 01-01-06-SF0230, Oct 07-Mar 09, Collaborator. 

i) Parallel Molecular Modelling Framework to Assess DNA Sequence Effects on 

Nucleosome Stability – 01-01-06-SF0401, Jul 07-Dec 08, Collaborator. 

j) Development of a Structural Bioinformatics Tool Using Intelligent Technique 

for Protein Secondary Structure Analysis – 01-01-06-SF0302, Aug 07-Jul 09, 

Collaborator. 

k) Protein structure prediction from amino acid sequence using artificial 

intelligence techniques – UTM IRPA 74017, Feb 01 – Jul 04, Project Leader. 

Planning and Scheduling 

l) The Development of Ontology and Problem-Solving Method for Dynamic 

Scheduling in Agile Manufacturing - 01-01-06-SF0309, Sept 07–Dec 08, 

Project Leader. 

m) The Development of Integrated Planning and Scheduling Framework for 

Dynamic and Reactive Environment of Complex Manufacturing Problem – 01- 

01-06-SF0004, Dec 06-Jun 08, Collaborator 

n) The development of constraint agent for planning and scheduling – UTM IRPA 

72288, Jan 00 – Jun 01, Project Leader. 


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o) The development of intelligent hybrid algorithm and intelligent agent for 

staff scheduling – UTM IRPA 72312, Jan 00 – Jun 01, Project Leader. 

p) The development of reactive scheduling algorithm for ship maintenance 

using intelligent agent – UTM IRPA 72163, Jun 99 – Jun 01, Project Leader. 

q) Intelligent Optimisation Techniques (Genetic Algorithm and Constraint- 

Based Reasoning) in Planning, Scheduling and Timetabling -1995 – 1998, 

Researcher. 

r) Neuro-Fuzzy-Evolutionary Computing (GA) Applications in Planning, 

Scheduling and Prediction – UTM UPP 61517, 1994 – 1996. Researcher. 

Artificial Intelligence 

s) Agent-based language identification tools for Web documents using machine 

learning algorithms – 01-01-06-SF0180, Dec 06-May 08, Collaborator. 

t) A useful Phi-Culculus mathematical techniques for the study of concurrent 

processing, RM21,900, FRGS vot 78129, 28 Feb 07 – 27 Feb 08. 

u) The Development of multi agent system for biological information retreival 

from heterogenous distributed data and knowledge sources – UTM IRPA 

74128, Jan 03 – Dec 05, Lead Researcher. 

v) Development of collaborative environment with privacy and conference 

control for 3D protein structure visualization – UTM IRPA 74130, Jan 03 – Dec 

04. Lead Researcher. 

w) The development of hybrid cell ontology for storing and exchanging 

computer based biology models – UTM IRPA 74137, Jan 03 – Dec 04, Lead 

Researcher. 

x) The development of distributed concurrent intelligent mobile agent for 

inventory management in naval integrated logistic support system (ILS) – 

UTM IRPA 72159, Jun 99 – Jun 01. 

y) Paperless water treatment works – UTM Contract Research 68827, 1999 – 

May 01, Project Leader. 

z) Differential pulse voltametry instrumentation - UTM IRPA, 2000 – Dec 01, 

Researcher, UTM IRPA 72235, Researcher. 

aa) The development of cost effective teleradiology system MTCS Grant, 

Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, Malaysia – 1998 – 2000, 

Researcher. 

bb) The Development and Application of Intelligent Hybrid Multi-agent – 1998 – 

2000. 

cc) Applications of Genetic Algorithms – UTM UPP 61618, 1994 – 1996, Project 

Leader. 

dd) Development of Expert Systems in Identification and Classification – 1985 – 

1992. 


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ee) Development of Intelligent Decision Support Systems (IDSS) – 1985 – 

1989. 

8.3 Major Products Developed 

a) Product Life Cycle Managemet (PLM) , Zilun Sdn Bhd and APM Spring Sdn, 

(2004 – present) 

b) Graduate Studies Management System, UTM, (2003 – present) 

c) Integrated Production and Accounting Information System for Plantation 

Management (IPAMIS), LKPP Corp, (1998 – present) 

d) Factory Production Planning and Control Mangement Information System 

(FPPCMIS), Sun Jin Flex Sdn Bhd, (1998 – 2003) 

e) Radiology Information System (RIS), HISM, (1998 – 2001) 

f) Water Treatment Plant Management Information System (WTPMIS) (2000 – 

present), Strategi Tegas Sdn Bhd. 

g) Timetable Planning and Scheduling System for Universities, Colleges, 

Schools, HUSM. 

h) Staff and Employee Scheduling System, HUSM. 

9. PUBLICATIONS 

9.1 Refereed International Journals 

1. Al Mutaz M. Abdalla, Safaai Deris, N. Zaki (2011), Detection of Masses in 

Digital Mammogram Using Second Order Statistics and Artificial Neural 

Network, International Journal of Computer Science & Information 

Technology (IJCSIT),( Accepted). 

2. M.S. Mohamad, S. Omatu, S. Deris, M. Yoshioka. An Enhancement of Binary 

Particle Swarm Optimization based on the Proposed Constraint and Rule for 

Selecting a Small Subset of Informative Genes. (2010). Far East Journal of 

Mathematical Sciences. Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 253-264. Pushpa Publishing 

House. 

3. M.S. Mohamad, S. Omatu, M. Yoshioka, S. Deris. A Three-Stage Method to 

Select Informative Genes for Cancer Classification. (2010). International 

Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control. Vol. 6, No.1, pp. 

117-125. ICIC International. Indexed by ISI and SCOPUS. 

4. M.S. Mohamad, S. Omatu, S. Deris, M. Yoshioka. Particle Swarm 

Optimization with a Modified Sigmoid Function for Gene Selection from 

Gene Expression Data. (2010). Artificial Life and Robotics. Vol. 15, No. 1, 

pp. 21-24. Springer. Indexed by SCOPUS. 

5. M.F. Misman, S. Deris, M.S. Mohamad, S.Z.M. Hashim. Identification of 

Significant Phenotypes Related Genes and Biological Pathways Using a 

Hybrid of Support Vector Machines and Smoothly Clipped Absolute Deviation 

(2010). ICIC Express Letters, Part B: Applications (ICIC-ELB). Vo. 1, No. 2, 

pp. 131-136. ICIC International. Indexed by SCOPUS. 


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6. Hany T. Alashwal, Safaai Deris, Razib M. Othman (2009), Bayesian kernel for 

the prediction of protein-protein interactions, International Journal of 

Computational Intelligence, 5(2), 119-124. IF:3.31. 

7. Farzana Kabir Ahmad, Safaai Deris, and Nor Hayati Othman, Improved 

Bayesian Network Structure Learning for Breast Cancer Prognosis, 

International Journal of Information Sciences and Computer Engineering, 

Vol. x, No. y., 2009. 

8. Norliza Katuk, Ku Rohana Ku Mahamad, Norita Norwawi, and Safaai Deris, 

(2009) “Web-based Support System for flood Response Operation in 

Malaysia”, Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2009. 

Emerrald. 

9. Ho Sheau Fen Irene, Safaai Deris, Mohd Hashim, Siti Zaiton, (2009), 

“Incorporating Of Constraint-Based Reasoning Into Particle Swarm 

Optimization For University Timetabling Problem”, Computer Science 

Letters, Vol. 1 (1), ISSR Journal. 

10. M.S. Mohamad, S. Omatu, S. Deris, M. Yoshioka. Particle Swarm 

Optimization for Gene Selection in Classifying Cancer Classes. (2009). 

International Journal of Artificial Life and Robotics. Vol. 14, No.1. pp. 16- 

19. Springer. 

11. M.S. Mohamad, S. Omatu, S. Deris, M. Yoshioka. Three-Stage Method for 

Selecting Informative Genes for Cancer Classification. (2009). IEEJ 

Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 

725-730. Wiley InterScience. 

12. M.S. Mohamad, S. Omatu, S. Deris, M. Yoshioka. Gene Subset Selection Using an 

Iterative Approach Based on Genetic Algorithms. (2009). International Journal of 

Artificial Life and Robotics. Vol. 14, No.1. pp. 12-15. Springer. 

13. M.S. Mohamad, S. Omatu, M. Yoshioka, S. Deris. A Two-Stage Method to 

Select a Smaller Subset of Informative Genes for Cancer Classification. 

(2009). International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and 

Control. Vol. 5, No. 12. pp. 2959-2968. ICIC International. 

14. M.S. Mohamad, S. Omatu, M. Yoshioka, S. Deris. A Cyclic Hybrid Method to 

Select a Smaller Subset of Informative Genes for Cancer Classification. 

(2009). International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and 

Control. Vol. 5, No. 10. pp. 2189-2202. ICIC International. 

15. M.S. Mohamad, S. Omatu, S. Deris, M.F. Misman, M. Yoshioka. Selecting Informative 

Genes from Microarray Data by using Hybrid Methods for Cancer Classification. 

(2009). International Journal of Artificial Life and Robotics. Volume 13, Number 2. 

pp. 414-417. Springer. 

16. M.S. Mohamad, S. Omatu, S. Deris, M.F. Misman, M. Yoshioka. A Multiobjective 

Strategy in Genetic Algorithm for Gene Selection of Gene 

Expression Data. (2009). International Journal of Artificial Life and 

Robotics. Volume 13, Number 2. pp. 410-413. Springer. 

17. Mohd Saberi Mohamad, Sigeru Omatu, Safaai Deris and Siti Zaiton Mohd 

Hashim (2007). A Model for Gene Selection and Classification of Gene 


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Expression Data. International Journal of Artificial Life and Robotics, Vol. 

11, No. 2, pp: 219-222. Springer. 

18. Razib M. Othman, Safaai Deris, Rosli M. Ilias, Hany T. Alashwal, A genetic 

split-merge algorithm for splitting the monolithic gene ontology RDF/XML 

file, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2007. 

19. Razib M. Othman, Safaai Deris, Rosli M. Ilias, Hany T. Alashwal, A genetic 

similarity algorithm for searching the gene ontology terms and annotating 

anonymous protein sequences, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, DOI:10, 

1016/j.jbi.2007.05.010. 

20. Razib M. Othman, Safaai Deris, Rosli M. Ilias, Hany T. Alashwal, Rohayanti 

Hassan, and Farhan Mohamed, Incorparation semantic similarity measure in 

genetic algorithm: An approach for searching the gene ontology terms, Int. 

J. of Computational Intelligence, Vol 3, No. 3, 2006. 

21. Razib M. Othman, Safaai Deris, Rosli M. Ilias, Hany T. Alashwal, 

Computational methods for annotation of protein sequence according to 

gene ontology terms, Intenational Journal of Biomedical sciences, 2006, 

1(3): 186-199. 

22. Razib M. Othman, Safaai Deris, Rosli M. Ilias, Hany T. Alashwal, Automatic 

clustering of gene ontology by genetic algorithm: An approach for searching 

the gene ontology terms. International Journal of Computaional 

Intelligence, 2006. 3(3): 257-266. 

23. Razib M. Othman, Safaai Deris, Rosli M. Ilias, Hany T. Alashwal, UTMGO: A 

tool for searching a group of sematically related gene ontology terms and 

application to annotation of annonymous protein sequence. International 

Journal of biomedical sciences, 2006. 1(2):111-119. 

24. Radziah Mohamed, Safaai Deris, Hany H. Ammar, MaSE2Jadex: A Roadmap 

to engineer JADEX agents from MaSE methodology, Int. Journal of 

Intelligent Technology, Vol 1, No. 3, 2006. 

25. Radziah Mohamed, Safaai Deris, Hanny H. Ammar, Pattern-oriented design 

for multiagent system: A conceptual model, Journal of Object Technology, 

2006. 

26. Dayang Norhayati Abang Jawawi, Safaai Deris, Rosbi Mamat, Software reuse 

for mobile robot applications through analysis pattern, The Int. Arab J. of of 

Information Technology, Vol. x No. x, 2006. 

27. Hany Alashwal, Safaai Deris, Razib M. Othman, One-class support vector 

machines for protein-protein interaction prediction, International journal of 

Biomedical Sciences, Vol 1, No 2, 2006. 

28. Hany Alashwal, Safaai Deris, Razib M. Othman, Comparison of domain and 

hydrophobicity features for prediction of protein-protein interaction using 

support vector machines, The International Journal of Information 

Technology, 3(1):18-24, 2006. 


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29. Nazar Zaki, Safaai Deris , Hany Alashwal, Protein-protein interaction 

detection based on substring sensitivity measure. The International Journal 

of Biomedical Sciences, 1(2):148-154. 

30. Abdalla, S. O. and Deris, S. (2005). Combining Artificial Neural Networks 

and GOR V Information Theory to Predict Protein Secondary Structure from 

Amino Acid Sequences. International Journal of Intelligent Information 

Technologies, 1(4), 53-72, 2005. 

31. NM Zaki, S Deris, R Illias, Application of string kernels in protein sequence 

classification, Applied Bioinformatics, 4(1), 45-52, 2005. 

32. Mohd Saberi Mohamad, Safaai Deris, Rosli Md Illias, A hybrid of genetic 

algorithm and support vector machine for feature selection and 

classification of gene expression microarray, Int. Journal of Comp. 

Intelligence and Applications, 5(1), 91-107, 2005. 

33. Saad Osman Abdalla, Safaai Deris, Predicting secondary structure using 

artificial neural networks: current status and future directions, Information 

Technology Journal, 4(2), 189-196, 2005 

34. Saad Osman Abdalla, Safaai Deris, Mohamed Saberi, A hybrid classifier for 

protein secondary structure prediction, Information Technology Journal 

4(4), 433-438, 2005. 

35. Zaki, N.M., Deris, S., Illias, R.M. and Arjunan, S.N.V., Feature extraction for 

protein homologies detection using Markov Model combining scores, Int. J. 

of Computatational Intelligence (IJCIA), Vol 4, No. 1, pp 1-12, 2004. 

36. Zaki, N.M., Deris, S., Illias, R.M. and Arjunan, S.N.V., Assignment of Protein 

Sequence to Functional Family Using Neural Network and Dempster-Shafer 

Theory, Journal of Theoretics, Vol 5, No. 1, 2003. 

37. Zaki, N.M., Deris, S., Illias, R.M. and Arjunan, S.N.V., Comparative analysis 

of multi-class support vector machine approches., Journal of Theoretics, 

Vol 5, No. 4, 2003. 

38. Saad, P., Shamsuddin, S.M., Deris, S., and Mohamad, D, Rough Set on 

Trademark Images for Neural Network Classifier, Int. J. of Computer 

Mathematics., Vol. 79, No 7, pp. 789-796, 2002. 

39. Safaai Deris, and Ohta, H., A machine scheduling model for large scale rice 

production in Malaysia, Journal of Operational Research Society, Vol. 14, 

No. 8, pp. 713 - 723, 1990. 

40. Safaai Deris, Omatu, S., Ohta, H., and Pathiah Abd Samat, An objectoriented 

constraint logic programming for timetable planning, International 

Journal of System Science, Vol. 28, No. 10, pp. 987-999, 1997. 

41. Safaai Deris, Omatu, S., Ohta, H., Pathiah Abd Samat, University timetable 

planning by constraint-based reasoning - A case study, J. of Operational 

Research Society, Vol. 48, No. 12, pp. 1178-1190, 1997. 


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42. Safaai Deris, Omatu, S., Ohta, H., and Pathiah Abd Samat, Ship 

maintenance scheduling by genetic algorithms and constraint-based 

reasoning, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol.112, pp. 489-502, 

1999. 

43. Safaai Deris, Omatu, S., Ohta, and Puteh Saad, Incorporating constraint 

propagation in genetic algorithm for university timetable planning, 

International Journal of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 

Vol. 12, pp.241-253, 1999. 

44. Safaai Deris, Omatu, S., Ohta, H., Timetable planning using the constraintbased 

reasoning, Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 27, pp. 819-840, 

2000. 

9.2 Other Journals 

1. Zaki, N.M., Deris, S., Illias, R.M. and Chin, K.K., Composition of quadratic 

programming solvers in support vector machines training, Jurnal 

Teknologi, Vol 39 (D), pp 45-56, 2003. 

2. Satya Nanda Vel Arjunan, Safaai Deris, Rosli Md Illias, Prediction of Protein 

Secondary Structure, Jurnal Teknologi, 35(C), 81-90, 2001. 

3. Dyg. Norhayati Abg. Jawawi, Safaai Deris,, Rosbi Mamat, “A review of realtime 

software engineering methodologies for developing a wall-climbing 

robot control firmware”, Elektrika, Vol. 3, No.1, pp.54-60, 2000 

4. Puteh Saad, Safaai Deris, Dzulkefli Mohamed, Siti Sakira Kamarudin, Habsah 

Abdullah, Trademark image registration – A review of the current 

systems. Jurnal Teknologi Maklumat, Vol. 11, Bil. 1, pp. 81-95, 1999. 

5. Safaai Deris, Omatu, S., and Ohta, H., Course scheduling and timetabling 

by constraint-based reasoning, Bulletin of the University of Osaka 

Prefecture, Series A, Vol 44, No. 2, 1996. 

6. Deris, S. and Ohta, H., On building an intelligent decision support system 

for agriculture production planning, Bulletin of the University of Osaka 

Prefecture, Series A, Vol. 36, No. 1, 1987. 

7. Deris, S. and Ohta, H., A computer assisted soil-crop suitability 

identification and classification (CASSIC), Bulletin of the University of 

Osaka Prefecture, Series A, Vol. 36, No. 2, 1987. 

8. Dyg Norhayati Abg Jawawi, Safaai Deris, Rosbi Mamat, A review of realtime 

software engineering methologies for developing a wall-climbing 

robot control firmware, Elektrika, Journal of Electrical Engineering, Vol 3, 

No. 1, pp. 54-60 

9. Mohd Razib Othman, Safaai Deris, Nur Azura Saleh, Formal method for 

distributed concurrent intelligent mobile agent system: A suvey of 

Belief-Desire-Intention model and logic-based representation and 

reasoning, Jurnal Teknologi Maklumat, 2002. 


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10. Zalmiyah Zakaria, Safaai Deris, Penyelesaian masalah penjadualan yang 

dinamik dengan menggunakan pendekatan taakulan berasaskan kes, 

Jurnal Teknologi, 2002. 

11. Satya Nanda vel Arjunan, Safaai Deris, Rosli Md Illias, Literature survey of 

protien structure prediction, Jurnal Teknologi, 2002. 

9.3 International Refereed Conferences 

1. Ashraf A. Aly, Safaai Bin Deris, Nazar Zaki, (accepted). " Intelligent 

Techniques for Image Segmentation in Cell Tracking and Mobility Analysis", 

7 th international Conference on innovation in information technology, Abu 

Dhabi - UAE, April 2011. 

2. 2. Ashraf A. Aly, Safaai Bin Deris, Nazar Zaki, (accepted). " Electromagnetic 

field emitted by 1800 MHz GSM mobile phone cause damage and affect the 

activity of human leukocytes in vitro", IEEE IRI 2009 International 

Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Las Vegas, USA, August 

2009. 

3. 3. Ashraf A. Aly, Safaai Bin Deris, Nazar Zaki, (accepted). "Research review 

on the biological effect of cell phone radiation on human", IEEE 8 th 

Innovation, Al Ain-UAE , December 2008. 

4. Mohd Saberi Mohamad, Sigeru Omatu, Safaai Deris, Michifumi Yoshioka, 

Anazida Zainal, “An Improved Binary Particle Swarm Optimisation for 

Gene Selection in Classifying Cancer Classes”, Distributed Computing, 

Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Soft Computing, and Ambient Assisted 

Living, 10 th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, 

IWANN 2009 Workshops, Salamanca, Spain, June 10-12, 2009. Proceedings, 

Part II 2009. 

5. Mohd Saberi Mohamad, Sigeru Omatu, Safaai Deris, Michifumi Yoshioka, “An 

Iterative GASVM-Based Method: Gene Selection and Classification of 

Microarray Data”. Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence, 

Bioinformatics, Soft Computing, and Ambient Assisted Living, 10 th 

International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2009 

Workshops, Salamanca, Spain, June 10-12, 2009. Proceedings, Part II 2009. 

6. Umi Kalsom Yusof, Safaai Deris, “Constraint-Based Genetic Algorithms for 

Machine Requirement of Semiconductor Assembly Industry: A Proposed 

Framework” AMS 2009, Third Asia International Conference on Modeling 

Simulation, 25-29 May 2009, Bandung, Indonesia. 

7. Jafar R., Safaai D., Parvizpour S. (2009), Text-Based Protein Structure 

Modeling for Structure Comparison, 2009 International Conference of Soft 

Computing and Pattern Recognition (SOCPAR’09), 490-497 (Best Paper 

Award), Malacca, Malaysia. 

8. Shahreen K., Safaai D., Razib M. O., Zuraini A. S., Rohayanti H. (2009), 

Gene ontology based biclustering in gene expression data, 3rd International 

Conference on Chemical and BioProcess Engineering (ICCBPE-2009), Kota 

Kinabalu, Malaysia, 12-14 Aug 2009, A-3. 


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9. Misman, M.F., Deris, S., Hashim, S.Z.M., Jumali, R., Mohamad, M.S. (2009), 

Pathway-based microarray analysis for defining statistical significant 

phenotype-related pathways: A review of common approaches, Proceedings 

- 2009 International Conference on Information Management and 

Engineering, ICIME 2009, art. no. 5077084, 496-500, Kuala Lumpur 

10. Jumali, R., Deris, S., Hashim, S.Z.M., Misman, M.F., Mohamad, M.S. (2009), 

A study of network-based approach for cancer classification, Proceedings - 

2009 International Conference on Information Management and 

Engineering, ICIME 2009, art. no. 5077086, 505-509, Kuala Lumpur 

11. Afnizanfaizal A., Safaai D., Siti Zaiton M.H. and Hamimah M.J. (2009), 

Graph Partitioning Method for Functional Module Detections of Protein 

Interaction Network, 2009 International Conference on Computer 

Technology and Development (ICCTD 2009), Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, 12-15 

November 2009. 

12. Ashraf A. Aly, Safaai Bin Deris, Nazar Zaki, " Electromagnetic field emitted 

by 1800 MHz GSM mobile phone cause damage and affect the activity of 

human leukocytes in vitro", IEEE IRI 2009 International Conference on 

Information Reuse and Integration, Las Vegas, USA, August 2009. 

13. Balsam Mustafa and Safaai Deris, “How Prior Knowledge Affects Users 

Understanding of System Requirements” The International Conference on 

Software Science and Engineering' ICSSE, 25 – 27 Feb 2009, Penang. 

14. Ahmad F.K., Deris, S. and Othman N.H., “Gene Regulatory Network 

Inference with Low-Order Conditional Independencies”, International 

Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (ICBBE\'09), Bali, 

Indonesia, 2009. 

15. Ahmad F.K., S. Deris and Othman N. H., “Integrative Analysis Of Breast 

Cancer Prognosis By Merging Microarray And Clinical Data With Bayesian 

Networks”, The 4th International Symposium on Health Informatics and 

Bioinformatics (HIBIT), Antalya, Turkey. 

16. Sheau Fen Ho Irene, Safaai Deris, Mohd Hashim Siti Zaiton, "A Study on 

PSO-Based University Course Timetabling Problem," Advanced Computer 

Control, International Conference on, pp. 648-651, 2009 International 

Conference on Advanced Computer Control, 2009. 22-24 Jan 2009, 

Singapore. 

17. Ho Sheau Fen Irene, Safaai Deris, Mohd Hashim, Siti Zaiton. “University 

course timetable planning using hybrid particle swarm optimization.” In 

Lihong Xu, Erik D. Goodman, Guoliang Chen, Darrell Whitley, Yongsheng 

Ding, editors, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GEC 

Summit 2009, Proceedings, Shanghai, China, June 12-14, 2009. pages 239- 

246, ACM, 2009. 

18. Ho Sheau Fen Irene, Safaai Deris, Mohd Hashim, Siti Zaiton, “A Combination 

of PSO and Local Search in University Course Timetabling Problem”, IEEE 

2009 International Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology 

(ICCET 2009), pp. 492-495, Singapore. 


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19. Ho Sheau Fen Irene, Safaai Deris, Mohd Hashim, Siti Zaiton, “Investigating 

constraint-based Reasoning for University Timetabling Problem”, The 

International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Sciences 2009, 

Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science, pp. 139-143, 18-20 

March 2009, Hong Kong. 

20. Ho Sheau Fen Irene, Safaai Deris, Mohd Hashim, Siti Zaiton, “Incorporating 

Constraint-Based Reasoning in Particle Swarm Optimization for 

University Course Timetabling Problem”, The Twenty Second International 

Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied 

Intelligent Systems IEA-AIE 2009, June 24-27, 2009 Tainan, Taiwan. 

21. Shahliza Abd Halim, Dayang N. A. Jawawi,Safaai Deris. “Requirements 

Identification and Representation in Software Product Line”, 16th Asia- 

Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC 2009, 1-3 December 2009, 

Batu Ferringhi, Penang, Malaysia 2009. 

22. Noraini Ibrahim, Wan M. N. Wan-Kadir, Safaai Deris. “Propagating 

Requirement Change into Software High Level Designs toward Resilient 

Software Evolution”. 16th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, 

APSEC 2009, 1-3 December 2009, Batu Ferringhi, Penang, Malaysia 2009. 

23. Afnizanfaizal Abdullah Safaai Deris , 2008, A Survey On Protein Interaction 

Networks Prediction, 10th Symposium of the Malaysian Society of Applied 

Biology ,6-8 November 2008, Merdeka Palace Hotel & Suites, Kuching 

24. Afnizanfaizal Abdullah, Safaai Deris , 2008, Protein Interactions Network 

Prediction, MySEC08, UMT, Kuala Terengganu. 

25. Afnizanfaizal Abdullah, Safaai Deris , 2008, Machine Learning Approaches 

For Predicting Protein Interactions Network 3rd International Conference of 

Postgraduate Education 08 (ICPE-3), 23-24 Dec 2008, Skudai, Johor. 

26. Jafar Razmara, Safaai Deris, A Novel Method Proposition for Protein 3D- 

Structure Similarity Measure Based on Language Modeling Techniques, 8 th 

IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE 

08), 8-10 Oct 2008. Athens, Greece. 

27. Naser K. A. Alajmi, Safa'ai bin Deris, Salah Alnajem, (2008), A Novel Method 

Proposition for Protein 3D-Structure Similarity Measure Based on Language 

Modeling Techniques, International Conference on Advanced Computer 

Theory and Engineering (ICACTE 2008), 20 - 22, December 2008, Phuket 

Thailand. 

28. Mohd Saberi Mohamad, Sigeru Omatu, Michifumi Yoshioka and Safaai Deris 

(2008), A Two-Stage Method to Select a Smaller Subset of Genes for Cancer 

Classification, International Symposium on Intelligent Informatics 

(ISII2008)", December 12-13, 2008, Tokai, University, Kumamoto, Japan. 

29. Mohd Saberi Mohamad, Sigeru Omatu, Michifumi Yoshioka, and Safaai Deris, 

A Three-Stage Method to Select Informative Genes for Cancer Classification 

(2008), The 40th ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems 

Theory and Its Applications, November 14-15, 2008, Kyodai Kaikan, Kyoto, 


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Japan 

30. Mohd Saberi Mohamad, Sigeru Omatu, Safaai Deris, Siti Zaiton Mohd Hashim 

(2008). A Model for Gene Selection and Classification of Gene Expression 

Data. The 13th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics 

(AROB 13th '08). January 31-February 2, 2008. Oita, Japan. 

31. Mohd Saberi Mohamad, Sigeru Omatu, Safaai Deris, Muhammad Faiz Misman 

(2008). Selecting Informative Genes from Microarray Data by using a Hybrid 

Algorithm for Cancer Classification. The 13th International Symposium on 

Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 13th '08). January 31-February 2, 2008. 

Oita, Japan. 

32. Mohd Saberi Mohamad, Sigeru Omatu, Safaai Deris, Michifumi Yoshioka. A 

Recursive Genetic Algorithm to Automatically Select Genes for Cancer 

Classification. The 2nd International Workshop on Practical Applications of 

Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (IWPACBB'08). October 22-24, 

2008. Salamanca, Spain. Proceedings published by Springer (Advances in 

Soft Computing Series). 

33. Mohd Saberi Mohamad, Sigeru Omatu, Michifumi Yoshioka, Safaai Deris 

(2008). Gene Selection for Cancers Classification Using a Recursive 

Algorithm Based on Genetic Algorithm. The International Conference on 

Electrical Engineering 2008 (ICEE'08). July 6-10, 2008. Okinawa, Japan. 

34. Mohd Saberi Mohamad, Sigeru Omatu, Michifumi Yoshioka, Safaai Deris 

(2008). An Approach Using Hybrid Methods to Select Informative Genes from 

Microarray Data for Cancer Classification. The 2nd Asia International 

Conference on Modelling & Simulation 2008 (AMS2008). May 13-15, 2008. 

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society. 

35. Mohd Saberi Mohamad, Sigeru Omatu, Safaai Deris, Michifumi Yoshioka 

(2008). Multi-Objective Optimization Using Genetic Algorithm for Gene 

Selection from Microarray Data. The International Conference on Computer 

and Communication Engineering 2008 (ICCCE'08). May 13-15, 2008. Kuala 

Lumpur, Malaysia. Proceedings published by IEEE Digital Library. 

36. Mohd Saberi Mohamad, Sigeru Omatu, Safaai Deris, Muhammad Faiz 

Misman (2008). A Multi-objective Strategy in Genetic Algorithm for Gene 

Selection of Gene Expression Data. The 13th International Symposium on 

Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 13th '08). January 31-February 2, 2008. 

Oita, Japan. 

37. Muhammad Firdaus B. Mustapha and Safaai B. Deris, (2008), Solving Agile 

Manufacturing Scheduling Using Ontology and Problem Solving Method,The 

8 th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications 

(ISDA'08), 25-28 November 2008, Kaohsioung, Taiwan. 

38. Muhammad Firdaus B. Mustapha and Safaai B. Deris, Ontology and Problem- 

Solving Method for Scheduling in Manufacturing, 4th IASTED International 

Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Technology (ACST’08), 

Langkawi, Malaysia, 2-4 April 2008 

39. Saad Osman Abdalla Subair and Safaai Deris, Blind Test Is A Pragmatic Test 


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for A New Protein Secondary Structure Classifier, In The Proceeding of the 

2007 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 

(BIOCOMP'07), Las Vegas, USA, June 25-28, 2007. 

40. Nazar Zaki, S. Deris and S. Alwahaishi (2007), "SubSS: A Protein-Protein 

Interaction Detection Tool", 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on 

Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2007), pp. 999-1004. Melbourne, 

Australia, 11-13 July 2007. 

41. Al Mutaz M. Abdalla, Safaai Deris, Nazar Zaki and Doaa M. Ghoneim (2007), 

"Breast Cancer Detection Based on Statistical Textural Features 

Classification”, 4th IEEE/Innovations’07 International Conference on 

Innovations in Information Technology, Dubai 18-20 Nov 2007. (Won the Best 

Student Paper Award). 

42. Radziah Mohamed, Safaai Deris, Hany H. Ammar, Pattern-oriented design 

for multi-agent systems: a process framework. In the Proceeding of the 

International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice 

(SERP’06), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2006. 

43. N. Katuk, Ku Mahamud, K. Ruhana, N. Norwawi, S. Deris, Web-Based 

Support System for Flood Response Operation. In The Proceeding of the 

3rd International Workshop on Web-Based Support Systems (WSS'06), 

December 18, 2006, Hong Kong, China, Proceedings of WI-IAT 2006 

Workshops, 2006, pp. 169-171 

44. Radziah Mohamed, Safaai Deris, Hany H. Ammar, Agent design patterns 

framework for MaSE/POAD methodology. In the Proceeding of the 4th 

ACS/IEEE International Conference on computer system and application. 

March 8-11, 2006, pp. 521-528, Dubai/Sarjah, UAE. 

45. Hany Alashwal, Safaai Deris, M. Razib Othman and Mohd Saberi Mohamed, 

One class classifier to predict protein-protein interaction based on 

hydrophobicity properties. In the International Symposium on Biomedical 

Engineering (ISBME’06), Nov 8-10, Bangkok, Thailand, 2006. 

46. Hany Alashwal, Safaai Deris, M. Razib Othman, Prediction proteins 

interaction from protein sequence features using support vector 

machines. In the International Conference on Bioinformatics and 

Computational Biology (BioComp’06), June 26-29. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 

2006. 

47. Hany Alashwal, Safaai Deris, M. Razib Othman, Support vector machines 

for predicting Protein-Protein Interactikons using Domain and 

Hydrophobicity Features. In the International Conference on Computing 

and Informatics (ICOCI 2006), June 6-8, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2006. 

48. Hany Alashwal, Safaai Deris, M. Razib Othman, Computational Prediction 

of Protein-Protein Interaction based on protein domain structure and 

hydrophobic properties, In the International Sympoosium on Bio-Inspired 

Computing (BIC’05), Sept 5-7, Johor, Malaysia, 2005. 

49. Abdalla, S. O. and Deris, S. An Improved Method for Protein Secondary 

Structure Prediction by Combining Neural Networks and GOR V Theory. 


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Second Middle East Conference on Healthcare Informatics (MECHCI 2005). 

Dubai Knowledge Village, Dubai 9-10 April 2005. UAE 

50. Radziah Mohamed, Safaai Deris, Hany H. Ammar, Toward a reuseable and 

maintainable multi-agent system engineering (MaSE) methodology, in the 

Proceeding of the International Conference on artificial intelligence (IC- 

AI’2005), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. June, 2005. 

51. Mohd Saberi Mohammad, Safaai Deris, Genetic algorithm wrapper 

approach to select informative gene for gene expression microarray data 

using support vector machine, International Conference on Bioinformatics 

2004 (INCOB 2004), Auckland, New Zealand, 5-9 Oct 2004 

52. Yeo Lee Chin, Safaai Deris, Improve gene selection techniques by 

combining Model-Based clustering and statistical methods for 

classification of microarray gene expression data, International 

Conference on Bioinformatics 2004 (INCOB 2004), Auckland, New Zealand, 

5-9 Oct 2004 

53. Yeo Lee Chin, Safaai Deris, Combining clustering and statistical methods 

for gene selection in microarray classification problem, Seminar Nasional 

Teknologi Informasi, 2004, SNTI 2004, University Tarumanagara, Jakarta, 1- 

2 Oct2004. 

54. Mohd Saberi Mohammad, Safaai Deris, Feature selection method using 

genetic algorithm for classification of small and high dimension data, The 

International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies, 

Nov 2004, Putrajaya, Kuala lumpur. 

55. Norita Md Norwawi, Ku Ruhana Ku Mahamud, Safaai Deris. Temporal 

Classifier Algorithm for Time Series Data. . In R. Akerkar (ed) Artificial 

Intelligence and Its Application. Technomathematics Research Foundation: 

Kolhapur, India, 2003, pp86-91 

56. Norita Md Norwawi, Ku Ruhana Ku Mahamud, Safaai Deris. Towards a 

Naturalistic Agent With Temporal Data Mining. In Proceedings of the 3 rd 

International Symposium on Information Technology (ITSim2003), Kuala 

Lumpur. 29 Sep – 2 Oct. 2003, Vol 1. pp177-186 

57. Norita Md Norwawi, Ku Ruhana Ku Mahamud, Safaai Deris. Recognition- 

Primed Decision Model Using Temporal Data Mining. The 3 rd International 

Symposium on Communications and Information Technology (ISCIT2003), 

IEEE Thailand Section ,Songkhla, Thailand, Sep 3-5. Vol I. pp 269-274. 

58. Norita Md Norwawi, Ku Ruhana Ku Mahamud, Safaai Deris. Recognition- 

Primed Decision Model Using Temporal Data Mining. The 3 rd International 

Symposium on Communications and Information Technology (ISCIT2003), 

IEEE Thailand Section ,Songkhla, Thailand, Sep 3-5. [CDROM] Departmenrt 

of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Prince Songkla University, 

Thailand. 

59. Norita Md Norwawi, Ku Ruhana Ku Mahamud, Safaai Deris, Mining Decision 

Rules from Temporal Data. Malaysia – Japan Seminar on Artificial 

Intelligence Applications in Industry AIAI2003, Kuala Lumpur 24-25 June. 


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[CDROM] Centre of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIRO), Universiti 

Teknologi Malaysia. 

60. Norita Md Norwawi, Ku Ruhana Ku Mahamud, Safaai Deris. Multi Agent 

Decision Support for Flood Emergency Management. In the Proceedings of 

the 7 th Asia Pacific Decision Sciences Institute Conference (APDSI2002), 

Bangkok, Thailand, 24- 27 July [CDROM] National Institute of Development 

Administration, Bangkok, Thailand. 

61. Puteh Saad, Safaai Deris, Dzulkifli Mohamad, and Siti Mariyam Shamsuddin, 

Complex Image Recognistion Based on Descretized and Descretized 

Features: A Comparison, Proceeding of International Conference on 

Artificial Intelligence in Engineering and Technology, Kota Kinabalu, 17-18 

June 2002. 

62. Nur Azura Salleh, Safaai Deris, Mobile Retrieval Agent in Distributed 

Information Management, Proceeding of International Conference on 

Artificial Intelligence in Engineering and Technology, Kota Kinabalu, 17-18 

June 2002. 

63. Satya Nanda Vel Arjunan, Safaai Deris, Protein Secondary Structure 

Prediction Based on Denoeux Belief Neural Network, Proceeding of 

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Engineering and 

Technology, Kota Kinabalu, 17-18 June 2002. 

64. Safaai Deris, Sigeru Omatu, Hiroshi Ohta, Ghazali Sulong, Ibrahim Lufti 

Shuaib and Puteh Saad, Staff scheduling by a hybrid of genetic algorithms 

and constraint-based reasoning, The Seventh JSPS-VCC Seminar on 

Integrated Engineering, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 7-8 December, 

1998. 

65. Siti Sakira Kamaruddin, Puteh Saad, and Safaai Deris, A data-mining tool 

for a digital library application, International Conference on Information 

Technology and Multimedia (ICMU 98), Universiti Tenaga Natioanal 

(UNITEN), Kuala Lumpur, 28-30 Sept. 1998. 

66. Puteh Saad, Dzulkifli Mohamed, Safaai Deris, Siti Sakira Kamaruddin, 

Trademark image clustering technique using self-organising map, 

International Conference on Information Technology and Multimedia (ICMU 

98), Universiti Tenaga National (UNITEN), Kuala Lumpur, 28-30 Sept. 1998. 

67. Pathiah Abd Samat, Safaai Deris, Puteh Saad, Enhancement of ship 

availability by improving chromosome representation, International 

Conference on Information Technology and Multimedia (ICMU 98), Universiti 

Tenaga National (UNITEN), Kuala Lumpur, 28-30 Sept. 1998. 

68. Safaai Deris, Omatu, S., Ohta, H., Lt Cdr Shaharuddin Kutar, and Pathiah 

Samat, Application of hybrid genetic algorithm to ship maintenance 

scheduling, IFAC/IEEE International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in 

Real-Time Control, Kuala Lumpur, 22-25 September, 1997. 

69. Safaai Deris, Omatu, S., Ohta, H., and Puteh Saad, A constraint-directed 

genetic algorithm for university timetable planning, The Fourth 

International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP’97), 


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Dunedin, New Zealand, 24-28 November 1997. 

70. Safaai Deris, Omatu, S., and Kitagawa, K., Stabilization of inverted 

pendulum by the genetic algorithms, Proceeding of the IEEE Conference of 

Systems, Cybernatics and Machine, Vancouver, November 1995. 

71. Deris, S. and Omatu, S., A knowledge-based system for course planning 

and scheduling, Proceeding of the 5th JSPS-VCC Seminar on Integrated 

Engineering, Johor Bahru, Johor, Dec. 1994. 

72. Safaai Deris, Mohamad Noh Samik, Mohamad Sabtu, and Faridah Hj Ahmad, 

Application of expert system for soil crop suitability identification and 

classification in department of agriculture, Proceeding of the 

International Conference on Information Technology, 1990, ICIT 90, Kuala 

Lumpur, September 17-20, 1990, 

73. Deris, S. and Ohta, H., Fuzzy expert system for identification and 

classification jobs, Proceeding of the Third International IFIT Conference on 

Computer Applications in Production and Engineering, CAPE 89, Tokyo, 

Japan, October 2 -5, 1989. 

9.4 National Conferences and Seminars 

1. Radziah Mohamed, Safaai Deris, Hany H. Ammar, Engineering Jadex Agents 

using MaSE methodology, in the Procceding of the 2nd Malaysian Software 

Engineering Conference, Kuala Lumpur, 11-12 Dec 2006. 

2. Radziah Mohamed, Safaai Deris, Hany H. Ammar, Designing a multi-agent 

system as a composition of design pattern using MaSE/POAD 

methodology, in the Proceeding of the International Advanced Technology 

Congress, IOI Marriott Hotel, Putrajaya, 6-8 Dec 20005. 

3. Radziah Mohamed, Safaai Deris, Hany H. Ammar, Formalizing the patternoriented 

analysis and design (POAD) model using object-Z, in the 

Procceding of the 1st Malaysian Software Engineering Conference, Penang, 

12-13 Dec 2005. 

4. Radziah Mohamed, Safaai Deris, Hany H. Ammar, On the use of patterns in 

multi-agent system engineering (MaSE) methodology, in the Proceeding of 

the 2005 Post Graduate Seminar, Faculty of Computer Science and 

Information System, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 2005. 

5. Norita Md Norwawi, Safaai Deris, Ku Ruhana Ku Mahamud. Intelligent 

Decision Support Systems for Crisis Managers. In the Proceedings of the 1 st 

National Artificial Intelligence Seminar (AIS2001), Universiti Utara Malaysia 

and Prince of Songkla University, Thailand, Nov 1-3. [CDROM] Artificial 

Intelligence Special Interest Group (AISIG), School of Information 

Technology, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Kedah, Malaysia. 

1. Norita Md Norwawi, Ku Ruhana Ku Mahamud, Safaai Deris. Generation of 

Explicit Knowledge from Temporal Data. In the Proceedings of the 2 nd 

Knowledge Management International Conference and Exhibition. 14-15 

Feb, Penang, Malaysia. [CDROM] Faculty of Information Technology, 

Universiti Utara Malaysia. 


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2. Norita Md Norwawi, Ku Ruhana Ku Mahamud, Safaai Deris. Crisis 

Management and Information Technology:Issues and Challenges. In the 

Proceedings of The Malaysian Science and Technology Congress, Universiti 

Sains Malaysia, Nov 8-10 [CDROM] Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, 

Malaysia. 

3. Mohd Razib Othman, Safaai Deris, Intelligent Mobile Agent Problem 

Domain Analysis Using UML, Artificial Intelligent Seminar (AIS’01), UUM 

Sintok, Malaysia, November 2001. 

4. Zalmiyah Zakaria, Safaai Deris, Perlaksanaan taakulan berasaskan kes dan 

taakulan berasaskan kekangan di dalam penyelesaian masalah dinamik 

penjadualan universiti, National Conference on Management Science and 

Operation Research 2000. (MSORSM 2000), 20-21 Nov 2000, Penang. 

5. Zalmiyah Zakaria, Safaai Deris, A case-based reasoning approach to 

university timetabling , First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence 

Applications in Industry (AIAI’99), 20-21 Oct 1999, Kuala Lumpur. 

6. Ali Selamat, Safaai Deris, Hishamudin Asmuni, Norizam Katmon, Md Ridzuan 

Mokhtar, Zalmiyah Zakaria, “Software technology and artificial 

intelligence in natural resources managment”, Workshop on Application of 

Information Technology in Forestry, 23-24 Aug 1999, FRIM, Kuala Lumpur. 

7. Dyg Norhayati Abg Jawawi, Safaai Deris, and Rosbi Mamat, Evaluation of 

real-time operation systems for small-scale embedded systems, Kongress 

Sains dan Teknologi Malaysia (COSTAM) 1998, USM, Pulai Pinang, 10-11 Nov. 

1998. 

8. Puteh Saad, Safaai Deris, Dzulkifli Mohamed, Siti Sakira Kamaruddin, 

Parallel mathching of trademark symbols using a Kohonen network, 

Kongress Sains dan Teknologi Malaysia (COSTAM) 1998, USM, Pulai Pinang, 

10-11 Nov. 1998. 

9. Ghazali Sulong, Mohd Iskandar Illyas, Naomi Salim, Ibrahim Lufti Shuaib, 

Safaai Deris, Nor Shahliza Kamal Bashah, Siti Ruhaizah Kassim, A 

preliminary study on the development of a Radiology Information System 

(RIS) for the hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Research Seminar on 

Electrical, Electronics, Aerospace, Information Technology and 

Communication, 18 March, 1998, UTM, Skudai, Johor. 

10. Nur Azura Salleh, Safaai Deris, Applying mobile agent technology in 

distributed information management applications, IRPA/UPP Seminar, 

FSKSM, UTM, Skudai, Johor, 7-8 Jun, 2000. 

11. Zalmiyah Zakaria, Safaai Deris, Combining Case-Based Reasoning and 

Constraint-Based Reasoning in Reactive Planning and Scheduling, 

IRPA/UPP Seminar, FSKSM, UTM, Skudai, Johor, 7-8 Jun, 2000. 

12. Suhaizan Kaiat, Safaai Deris, The development of constraint agent for 

planning and scheduling, IRPA/UPP Seminar, FSKSM, UTM, Skudai, Johor, 7- 

8 Jun, 2000. 


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13. Suhaizan Kaiat, Safaai Deris, The development of intelligent hybrid 

algorithm and intelligent agent for staff scheduling, IRPA/UPP Seminar, 

FSKSM, UTM, Skudai, Johor, 7-8 Jun, 2000. 

14. Mohd Ridzuan Mokahtar, Safaai Deris, Penjadualan reaktif berasaskan 

rekabentuk sistem papan hitam, IRPA/UPP Seminar, FSKSM, UTM, Skudai, 

Johor, 7-8 Jun, 2000. 

15. Muhamad Razib Othman, Safaai Deris, Formal method for DCIM agent 

systems: Literature survey of integrating BDI model and logic-based 

representation and reasoning,IRPA/UPP Seminar, FSKSM, UTM, Skudai, 

Johor, 7-8 Jun, 2000. 

16. Safaai Deris and Mohammad Sabtu, Application of expert system for soil 

crop suitability assessment, National Seminar on Land Evaluation for 

Agricultural Development, Kuala Lumpur, August 20-22, 1990. 

17. Safaai Deris and Mohd Noh Samik, Application of expert system in 

agricultural production planning, Proceeding of the Symposium on 

Agricultural Information System, ILPP, Serdang, March 23-24, 1989. 

18. Safaai Deris, Linear programming application in farm planning, Symposium 

on Agriculture Information System PLPS, Serdang, Selangor, March 27-28, 

1985. 

9.5 Technical University Reports 

1. Computerization Study Proposal for The Royal Malaysian Navy 

Computerization Plan, 1994. 

2. Report on Computerization Study for The Royal Malaysian Navy, 1995 

a. Volume I - Main Report 

b. Volume II - Information Technology Plan – Maintenance and 

Logistics 

c. Volume III - Information Technology Plan - Operations 

d. Volume IV - Information Technology Plan – Human Resource and 

Financial 

3. User Manual, Human Resource Management Information System, RTM, 

Kementerian Penerangan, 1995. 

4. User Manual, Post Graduate Management Information System, UTM, 1995. 

5. Cadangan Program Doktor Falsafah melalui penyelidikan dan penerbitan, 

Sekolah Pengajian Siswazah, 2000. 

10. CONSULTANCY PROJECTS 

Major System Study Projects: 

1. Royal Malaysian Navy Computerization Project (Project Leader) 

2. Lembaga Kemajuan Pertanian Negeri Pahang (LKPP) IT Strategic Plan Study 

(Project Leader) 


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3. Royal Malaysian Navy – Enterprise Business Process Architecture (EBPA) 

Study for Patrol Vessels (PV) Building Project 

Major System Development Projects: 

1. Product life cycle management for automatoive industry. 

2. Integrated management information system for water treatment plants 

3. Integrated Logistic Support Systems (Pilot System) Malaysian Navy – Project 

Leader 

4. Human Resources Management System (Jab. Penyiaran Malaysia) 

5. Radiology Information System – Project Leader 

6. Hydrologic Information System - Consultant 

7. Integrated Production and Accounting Management Information System for 

Plantation Industry (IPAMIS) fro LKPP Corp Sdn Bhd – Project Leader 

8. Factory Production Planning and Control Management Information System 

for LKPP Corp Sdn Bhd (IPAMIS-Mill) – Project Leader 

9. Human Capital Management System for LKPP Corp Sdn Bhd – IPAMIS-HCMS 

10. Payroll System for LKPP Corp Sdn Bhd – IPAMIS-PRS 

Major Clients: 

1. Royal Malaysian Navy 

2. Lembaga Kemajuan Pertanian Pahang 

3. LKPP Corporation Sdn Bhd 

4. SJM Flex Sdn Bhd (JV Company PNB & Sun Jin Machinery - Korea) 

5. Strategi Tegas Sdn Bhd/Equiventures Sdn Bhd 

6. Jabatan Penyiran Malaysia 

7. Jabatan Pengairan dan Saliran 

8. Institute of Hydrology, United Kingdom 

9. Bath Iron Works (USA) 

10. Suez Lyonnaise Des Eaux - France 

11. Medical Online Sdn Bhd (MSC Company) 

12. Strategi Tegas Sdn Bhd 

13. Zilun Systems 

10.1 On-going Projects 

a. Human Capital Management System for Plantation Industry – LKPP 

Corporation Sdn Bhd, Aug 2007 – Dec 2008 – System Development 

b. Integrated Estate Production and Accounting Management Information 

System (IPAMIS) – LKPP Copr Sdn Bhd, Sept 1998 - maintenance 

c. Paperless Water Treatment Work – Equiventures Sdn Bhd and S Suez 

Lyonnaise Des Eaux, France, Oct 1999 – Mar 2007 - maintenance 

10.2 Completed Projects 

10.2.1 International Level Consultancy 

1. Factory Production Planning and Control Management Information System 

(FPPCMIS) - SJM FLEX (M) Sdn Bhd (Korean Company), Jul 00 – 2002. 


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2. The development of pilot system for integrated logistics support system for 

naval ships in Royal Malaysia Navy (RMN) – Royal Malaysian Navy and US 

Navy, Apr 96 – Dec 96. 

3. Application areas The Development of Hydrology Information System, 

Jabatan Perparitan dan Saliran, Malaysia – Jabatan Perparitan dan Saliran, 

Mar 96 – Sept 96. 

4. Expert Consultation on ASOCON Information Service Network(Asia Soil 

Conservation Network), FOA/UNDP Manila, 1990 

5. Operations Research Applications for ASEAN Countries, Kuala Lumpur – Dept 

Agriculture Malaysia – Perez-Guerrero Trust Fund (PGTF), 1991. 

6. Pest Monitoring and Forecasting – Dept of Agriculture Malaysia – 

International Rice Research Research Institute, Manila, 1991. 

10.2.2 National Level Consultancy 

1. Product Life Cycle Management for Automobille Industry – Software Zilun 

System Sdn Bhd, 2005 – 2007 – Requirement analysis 

2. LKPP Information Technology Strategic Planning Study - Lembaga Kemajuan 

Pertanian Negeri Pahang (LKPP), Oct 2000 – Apr 2004 

3. Artificial Intelligence Applications in Tele-health Project (MSC Flagship) – a) 

Health Risk Assessment, b) Lifetime Personalised Health Plan c) Customized 

and Personalized Health Information and Education, Nov 2000. 

4. Computerisation Study for Royal Malaysian Navy Application areas: Ship 

maintenance, naval logistics, naval operation, human resource 

management, financial, networking, office automation – Royal Malaysian 

Navy, Jun 1994 –Apr 1995. 

5. Study and development of graduate school management information system 

– Graduate School, UTM, Jan 95 – Present. 

6. Development of computerisation and campus-wide networking for Institute 

of Technology Tun Hussain Onn (ITTHO) – ITTHO, Batu Pahat, Jan 93 – Dec 

93. 

7. Course planning and scheduling for Emile Woolf College of Malaysia – Emile 

Woolf College, Jan 94 – Dec 94. 

8. Assessment study of national agricultural information system – Dept of 

Agriculture, Jan 90 – Dec 90. 

9. The development of soil-crop suitability identification and classification 

(SCES) for Department of Agriculture, Malaysia, Jan 90 – Dec 91. 

10. Farm accounting management information system for Agricultural Institutes 

– Dept of Agriculture Malaysia, Mac 89 – Dec 92. 


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11. Plant material sales monitoring system – Dept of Agriculture Malaysia, Mac 

89 – Dec 92. 

12. Farm management information system – Dept of Agriculture Malaysia, Mac 

89 – Dec 92. 

13. Fuzzy expert system for soil identification and classification – Dept of 

Agriculture, Mac 89 – Dec 92. 

14. Pest diagnosis expert system – Dept of Agriculture Malaysia, 1989. 

15. Integrated oil refinery and control system (IRCS) for PETRONAS, Melaka – 

PETRONAS, 1993. 

16. Intelligent route scheduling for KTM – KTM, 1991. 

17. Human resource information system for RTM, Jabatan Penyiaran 

Malaysia(RTM) – RTM, 1994. 

11. POST-GRADUATE SUPERVISIONS 

11.1 Current PhD and MSc Students 

1 2010 – 2013 

2 2010 – 2013 

3 2008 – 2011 

4 2008 - 2011 

5 2008 - 2011 

6 2008 - 2011 

PhD (Comp Sc), Afnizanfaizal Abdullah 

Title: Insilico cell factory for biochemical production of 

Lactoccocus lactis 

Responsibility: Main Supervisor 

PhD (Infor Sys), Amy Hamijah 

Title: The Dsasasevelopment osf Nuclear Emergency Response 

Malaysia 

Responsibility: Co-Supervisor 

PhD (Comp Sc), Ashraf Ali Ahmed 

Title: Intelligent Techniques for Image Segmentation in Cell 

Tracking and Mobility Analysis 


PhD (Comp Sc), Jafar Rozmon 

Title: Protein Structure Prediction Using Similarity Measure 


PhD (Comp Sc), Mamoun Mohamed Jamaous 

Title: Web Service Dynamic Discovery and Automated 

Selection Algorithms for Public Web Service Search Engine 


S(Comp Sc) Hamimah Mohd Jamil 

Title: Efficiency of Surface Contacts for Protein Docking 

Using Constraint Programming 



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7 2008 – 2011 

8 2008 – 2011 

9 2007 - 2010 

10 2007 – 2010 

11 2006 – 2009 

12 2006 – 2009 

13 2006 - 2009 

14 2006 - 2008 

15 2006 - 2008 

16 2004 – 2006 

1 2010 – 2011 

2 2008 – 2009 

PhD (Comp Sc), Shahreen Kasim 

Title: Gene clustering using microarray data and gene 

ontology 


PhD (Comp Sc), Ahmad Shahrizal Muhamad 

Title: Robust predictive maintenance schedulig using 

intelligent techniques 


PhD (Comp Sc), Mazlan Abu Mazlan 

Title: Intelligent Scheduling 


PhD (Comp Sc), Farzana Kabir Ahmad 

Title: Cancer Bioinformatics 


PhD (Comp. Sc.), Shahliza Hj Shamsudin 

Title: Component model for product line software 


PhD (Comp. Sc.) Al-Mutaz Abdullah 

Title: Cancer detection and classification from mamograph 

emages 


PhD (Comp. Sc.) Noraini Ibrahim 

Title: Requirement tracibility model 


PhD (Comp. Sc.) Umi Kalthum Yusof 

Title: Strategic Capacity Planning under Demand Forecast 

Uncertainty for Semiconductor Industry using Stochastic 

Programming Approach 


Eng. Doctorate – Somasundran 

Title: Motivation for CMMI implemetation in Malaysian 

software companies 


PhD (Comp. Sc.), Suhaila Shamsuddin 

Title: Gene network using Bayesian statistics from 

microarray expression data 

Thesis Submitted: April 2010 

MSc (Comp Sc), Mohd Akmal MMooahmud 

Title: OMntology-based semantic web services for 

bioinformatics and system biology applications 


MSc (Comp Sc), Rizuan Jumali 

Title: Supervised Machine Learning Approach For Network 


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3 2008 – 2009 

11.2 PhD/MSc Graduates 

based classification 


MSc (Comp Sc), Mohd Faiz Misman 

Title: Pathway-Based Microarray Gene Expression Analysis 

Via Machine Learning Classification 


11.2.1 Completed PhD/MSc Research Thesis 

1 2006 – 2008 

2 

2005 – 2008 

3 2006 – 2008 

4 

2005 – 2008 

5 2004 – 2006 

6 2004 – 2006 

7 2003 – 2007 

8 2002 – 2005 

9 

2002 – 2005 

10 1999 – 2004 

PhD (Comp. Sc.) Zalmiyah Zakaria 

Title: Integrated production planning and schduling for flexible 

manufacturing 

PhD (Comp. Sc.), Nasser K.A.K Al-Alajmi 

Title: Finite state machine for Arabic language processing 

PhD (Comp. Sc.) Balsam Mustapha 

Title: Conceptual Modeling and requirement complexity 

PhD (Comp. Sc.), Mohd Razib Othman 

Title: Gene ontoloy-base protein sequence annotation using 

genetic algorithm 

PhD (Comp. Sc.), Hanny Taher Al Ashwal 

Title: Protein-protein interaction prediction using support vector 

machine 

PhD (Comp. Sc.), Radziah Mohamed 

Title: Pattern-oriented design approach for developing multiagen 

systems. 

PhD (Comp. Sc.), Dayang Norhayati Abg Jawawi 

Title: Component model for embedded real-time software 

engineering of autonomous mobile robot 

PhD (Comp. Sc) Anjum Iqbal 

Title: Modeling of an antigen presenting cell for danger model of 

artificial immune system 

Co-Supervisor: UTM student 

PhD (Comp. Sc.) Saad Abdalla 

Title: Protein classification, prediction, analysis using intelligent 

techniques. 

PhD (Comp. Sc), UUM – Norita Md Norwawi 

Title:Computational recognition-primed decision model based on 

temporal data mining approach in multi-agent environment for 

reservoir flood control decision. 


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11 2000 – 2004 

12 1998 – 2003 

1 2008 - 2009 

2 2007 - 2008 

3 2006 - 2008 

4 2003 – 2005 

5 

6 

2003 - 2005 

2003 – 2005 

7 2000 – 2003 

8 2000 – 2001 

9 2000 – 2001 

10 1999 – 2000 

PhD (Comp. Sc) – Nazar Zaki Mustapha 

Title: Learning methodologies for detecting remote protein 

evolutionary and structural relationships 

PhD (Comp. Sc) – Puteh Saad 

Title: Trademarks logo image clasification and recognition using 

neural network and rough set techniques 

MSc (Comp Sc), Afnizanfaizal Abdullah 

Title: Protein Function Prediction Using Protein Structure 

Network 

Completed April, 2010 

MSc Comp Sc), Ho Sheau Fen @ Irene 

Title: Hybrid intelligent techniques for timetable planning 

Completed April, 2010 

MSc (Comp. Sc.), Mohamad Firdaus Mustapha 

Title: Dynamic schedulling for flexible manufacturing 

M. Sc. (Comp. Sc), Yuslina Zakaria 

Title: Development of hybrid cell ontology for storing and 

exchanging computer-based biological model 

M. Sc. (Comp. Sc), Yeo Lee Chin 

Title: Improved feature selection technique by combining 

clustering and statistical methods for classification of microarray 

gene expression data 

M. Sc. (Comp. Sc), Mohd Saberi bin Tan Ah Chik@Mohamed 

Title: Classification of cancer classes from gene expression 

microarray data using hybrid genetic algorithm and support 

vector machine 

M.Sc. (Comp. Sc) – Hanny Taher Al-Ashawal 

Title: The development of reactive constraint agents for the 

dynamic timetabling problem 

M.Sc. (Comp. Sc) – Mohd Razib Othman 

Title: Formal methods for concurrent distributed intelligent 

mobile agent systems 

M.Sc. (Comp. Sc.) – Satya Nanda Vel Arjunan 

Title: Protein secondary structure prediction from amino acid 

sequences using neural network classifiers based on Demspter- 

Shafer Theory. 

MSc(Comp. Sc) – Zalmiyah Zakaria 

Title: The development of reactive techniques based on casebased 

reasoning for planning and scheduling. 


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11 1998 – 2000 

12 

1995 –1997 

13 1992 – 1993 

14 1992 – 1993 

11.2.2 MSc Projects 

1 2008 

2 2008 

3 2001 

4 2001 

5 2001 

6 2001 

7 2001 

8 2000 

9 1999 

10 

1998 

M.Sc. (Comp. Sc) – Dayang Norhayati Jawawi 

Title: The development of embedded hard real-time software for 

small scale applications 

M.Sc. (Comp. Sc) – Pathiah Abd Samat 

Title: Solving ship maintenance scheduling by a hybrid of genetic 

algorithm and constraint-based reasoning techniques 

M. Sc. (Comp. Sc) – Mad Ali Aziz 

Title: Performance of IT Organisations in Public Sector 

M. Sc. (Comp. Sc) – Md Ridzuan Mokhtar 

Title: Integrated document generation – the case of title 

applications in land office 

MSc (Comp Sc) – Mamoun Mohamed Jamaous 

Title: Requirement Change Management 

MSc (Comp Sc) – Mazlan Abu Samah 

Title: Hybrid Intelligent Techniques for Sport Scheduling 

MSc.(IT Entrep.) – Samad Sibghatullah 

Title: Capital budgeting analysis tools 

MSc.(IT Entrep.) – Norazean Yaakob 

Title: Contract management system 

MSc.(IT Entrep.) – Khairuddin Hashim 

Title: Incubator management information system 

MSc(Comp. Sc) – Zamra binti Derahman 

Title: Polytechnic timetable planning using hybrid genetic algorithm 

and constraint-based reasoning 

MSc(Comp. Sc) – Salawati binti Salleh 

Title: Sistem penilaian prestasi pensyarah politeknik 

MSc.(Comp. Sc) – Radziah Mohamed 

Title: Formal specification of small-scale embedded hard real-time 

system 

M.Sc. (Comp. Sc.) – Ali Mat Seman 

Title: Examination scheduling using hybrid genetic algorithm and 

constraint-based reasoning. 

M. Sc. (Comp. Sc) – Zuraini Ali Shah 

Title: Solving electrical power unit commitment distribution by 

constraint-based reasoning 


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11 1998 

12 1998 

M.Sc. (Comp. Sc.) – Shuhaizan Kaiat 

Title: Solving electrical power unit commitment distribution by 

genetic algorithm 

MSc.(Comp.Sc.) – Rohani Hassan 

Title: Effect of neural network architecture on accuracy prediction 

using back propagation technique. 

11.3. B. Sc. AND POST-GRADUATE DIPLOMA STUDENT 

SUPERVISION 

Post-graduate diploma - 5 students 

B. Sc. - More than 50 students 

12. PROFESIONAL SOCIETIES 

a) Artificial Intelligence Society, Malaysia 

Position: Assistant Secretary 

b) The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Inc (IEEE) 

Position: Member (Membership No: 40012306) 

c) Management Science/Operation Research Society Malaysia (MSORSM) 

Position: Member 

d) American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), USA. 

Position: Member (Membership No. 38061) 

13. AWARDS 

a) Geneva Palexpo 2006 - 34th International Exhibition of Invention New 

Techniques and Products of Geneva, 5-9 April 2006, held in Geneva, Switzerland. 

Product: 2D Design Structure Recognizer (DSR),Award : Gold Medal (Commercial, 

Industrial, and Office Equipment Category) 

b) MTE 2006, 5th Malaysia Technology Expo, 23-25 February 2006, held in Kuala 

Lumpur, Malaysia. Product : 2D Design Structure Recognizer (DSR) Award : Gold 

Medal 

c) INATEX 2000 – Innovation Award, 2000. 

d) INPEX (USA) Best invention Pacific Rim 

e) INPEX (USA) 2005 – Silver medal (Engineering) 

f) INPEX (USA) 2005 – Silver medal (Design) 

g) INPEX (USA) 2005 – Bronze medal (Automotive) 

h) INPEX (USA) 2005– Bronze medal (Computer software) 

i) Anugerah Khidmat Cemerlang, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 1999. 

j) Anugerah Khidmat Cemerlang, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 1995. 

k) Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship, 1995. 

l) Anugerah Khidmat Cemerlang, Jabatan Pertanian Malaysia, 1989. 

m) Monbusho (Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Japan) postgraduate 

scholarship, 1985. 

n) Netherlands International Fellowship Program, 1980. 


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14. TEACHING EXPERIENCES 

14.1 Post-Graduate Courses 

a) Advenced Software Engineering (MCC 1093) – MSc (Comp Sc) 

b) Advanced Theoretical Computer Science (MCC 2093) – MSc (Comp Sc) 

c) Software Technology and Business (MCB 1133) - MSc(IT Enrepreneurship) 

d) Software Project Management (MCM 1262) - MSc(IT Enrepreneurship) 

e) Software Technology - (MCP 2063) – MSc (Comp Sc) 

f) Software Quality and Testing (MCP 1263) MSc (Comp Sc) 

g) Advanced Artificial Intelligence (MCP 2123, MCP 2653) – MSc (Comp Sc) 

h) Intelligent Systems (MCM 1833) – MSc (Comp Sc), BSc 

i) Fuzzy Systems (MCM 2853) – MSc (Comp Sc), BSc (Comp Sc) 

j) IT consultancies and Services (Software Business) - MCM 1143 – MSc(IT 

Enrepreneurship) 

14.2 Undergraduate Courses 

a) Software Engineering (SCP3093) – B.Sc (Comp. Sc) 

b) Theoretical Computer Science (SZK 4053) – B.Sc (Comp. Sc) 

c) Functional Programming (LISP and ML) (SCP 5123) – B.Sc. (Comp. Sc.) 

d) Artificial Intelligence (SCP 4133) – B. Sc. (Comp. Sc.) 

e) Expert Systems (SCP 4123) - M.Sc.(Comp. Sc.), B. Comp.Sc. 

f) Object-oriented Programming in C++ (SCP 5153, SZK 3755, DDC 2143) - 

M.Sc.(Comp. Sc), B. Comp.Sc. 

g) Object-oriented Methodology (SCE 3123) - B. Comp. Eng. 

h) Database Design and Management (DCM 3453) - B. Comp.Sc., Dip. Comp. 

Sc., Dip. Lepasan Ijazah Sains Komputer 

i) Decision Support Systems (SCM 6433) - B. Comp.Sc. 

j) C Programming (LCP 1023) - Dip. Lepasan Ijazah Sains Komputer 

k) COBOL Programming (ISK 1053) - B. Comp. Sc. 

15. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 

Apr – Mei 2000 Kursus Kaedah Penyelidikan UTM 2000 

Unit Pembangunan Sumber Manusia UTM 

Responsibility: Instructor, facilitator 

Level: SLAB course 

Apr – Mei 1999 Kursus Kaedah Penyelidikan UTM 1999 

Unit Pembangunan Sumber Manusia UTM 


Level: SLAB course 

4 – 6 May 1998 Kursus UNIX untuk pensyarah dan staf Institut Teknologi 

Tun Hussain Onn 


Oct 1994 Application Development for Public Administration Officers 

Level: Diploma in Public Administration 

Responsibility: Instructor 

Dec 1994 Kursus Database Concepts for Officers from Telekom 


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15/07/93 – 

16/07/93 

03/05/93 – 

29/05/93 

Malaysia Sdn Bhd. 

Level: One day seminar 


UNIX operating system for Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) 

officers 

Level: Certificate in Programming 


ORACLE Database Administration for MINDEF officers 



Dec 1993 ORACLE Report Writer for MINDEF Officers 



16. THESIS EXAMINER 

16.1 UTM Internal Examiner 

a) PhD Thesis, “An Adaptive Intrusion Detection Model for Dynamic Network 

Pattern”, Anazida Zainal, Mac 2011. 

b) PhD Thesis, “Hybridization of linear and non-linear models for time series 

forecasting, Roselina Mohammad, June 2010. 

c) PhD Thesis, Discovery and Composition of Semantic Web Service using AI 

Planning and WSMO, Syed Golan Hassan Tatabaei, Mar 2010. 

d) PhD Thesis, “Enhanced Feature Selection method for illicit web filtering”, 

Lee Zhi Sam, Mar 2010. 

e) PhD Thesis, “Automatic Resources Discovery and Selection Techniques for 

Sequenctial and Parallel Visualization pipeline and Grid Computing” – 

Aboamama Atahar Ahmed, 9 Sept 2009 

f) PhD Thesis, Robiah Ahmad, Identification of descrete-time dynamic system 

using modified genetic algorithm, 2004. 

g) PhD Thesis, Roslin Rashid, Neural networks and genetic algorithm for 

modeling of tapioca starch hydrolysis process, 2004. 

h) PhD Thesis, Gunardi Widi Nurcahyo, “Modified sweep algorithm for public 

bus routing with fuzzy-based parameters”, 2003. 

i) MSc Thesis, Tan Chin Ming, “Expert System for Transformer Identification”, 

Oct 2006. 

j) MSc Thesis, Mustafar Afanddi bin Mat Nor, Development of knowledge 

management tool for ecotourism community. 


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k) MSc Thesis, Oii Khar Tuan, “Penjadualan mesin secara dinamik berasaskan 

komputer menggunakan algorithma genetik”, UTM, 2000. 

l) MSc Thesis, Roselina Salleh@Salehuddin, “Penggunaan rangkaian neural 

dalam analisis univariat”, UTM, 1999. 

m) MSc Thesis, Mohd Nor Main, “Computerised academic scheduling system”, 

UTM, 1995. 

16.2 External Thesis Examiner 

a) PhD Thesis (USM), Harmony Search Algorithm for Ab initio protein tertiary 

structure prediction, Mohammed Said Saleh Abual-Rub, Feb 2011. 

b) MSc Thesis (UPM), “Agent-based Resource Discovery in Peer-to-Peer 

networks”, Jan 2010. 

c) MSc Thesis (UPM), “Tolerable Constructive Graph-Based Hyperheuristic 

Algorothm for Examination Timetabling Problem” – Shahrzad Mohammad 

Pour, Mei 2009. 

d) PhD Thesis (UPM), “Mediator Connector for Composing Loosely Coupled 

Software Components” – Hamid Sanatnama, Jun 2009. 

e) MSc Thesis (UPM), “Agent Based Resource Discovery in Peer to Peer 

Networks” – Mina Sedaghat, Nov 2009. 

f) PhD Thesis (USM), “Model Implementation and Evaluation of a New 

Neocortex Inspired Machine Intelligence Framework“ – Muhammad Fermi 

Pasha, Ogos 2009. 

g) PhD Thesis (USM), “Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Clustering 

Proteins in Protein Interaction Networks” – Jamaludin bin Salim, Ogos 2009. 

h) PhD Thesis (UMT), Nordin Abdul Rahman, Fast-Optimal DNA Sequence 

Similarity Search, UMT, Terengganu. 1 Julai 2008 

i) MSc Thesis (UMS), Tan Tse Guan, UMS, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, 17 Jun 08. 

j) PhD Thesis (UPM), Mohd Juzaiddin Ab Aziz, 17 April 08 

k) PhD Thesis (UKM), Mazidah Puteh, 24 Ogos 08 

l) MSc Thesis (UPM), Mehri Saeid, 4 Nov 08 

m) PhD Thesis (USM), Muhammad Rozi Malim, 02 Nov 2008 

n) PhD Thesis (USM), Martin Chew, “Connectionist Methods For Protein 

Classification”, 2007. 

o) PhD Thesis (UPM), Abu Bakar Md Sultan, “Hybrid Metaheuristics Algorithm 

And Metaheuristic Performance Measurement For University Course 

Timetabling Problem”, 2007. 


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p) PhD Thesis (UPM), Waled Saeed Abdo, “An improved rules generation and 

classification accuracy for data mining”, 2005. 

q) PhD Thesis (UPM), Mohammed Abdullah Hassan Al Hijri, “A new complexity 

weights method for function point analysis using artificial neural networks 

approach”, 2004. 

r) PhD Thesis (UPM), Zafar Iqbal Hashmi, “A multi-stage model and 

architecture for multi-modal knowledge assistance and capitalization”, 

2004. 

s) PhD Thesis (UPM), Selma, A.H., “Development of web-based access 

techniques based on user access behaviour “, 2004 

t) PhD Thesis (USM), Razamin Ramli, “A multi-stage evolutionary algorithm for 

the nurse scheduling problem”, 2004 

u) PhD Thesis (UPM), Omar, A.A. Shiba, “An improved slicing technique for 

effective classification model”, 2004 

v) MSc Thesis (UM), Law Foong Li, “Using Distributed Database for Learning 

Objects System”, 2007. 

w) MSc Thesis (UPM), Yahya Mohamed Ahmed, “Improved Reinforced-Based 

Profile Learning for Document Filtering”, 2007. 

x) MSc Thesis (USM), Sakthiaseelan a/l V. Kartigasoo, “A Multi-Tier Knowledge 

Discovery, Amalgamation and Learning Infrastgructure Using a Hybrid of 

Clustering Ensemble, Rough Set Approximation and Neural Network 

Ensemble”, 2007. 

y) MSc Thesis (UPM), Azree Shahrel Ahmad Nazri, “Socially Intelligent Agent 

Architecture for Emergent Organisation”, 2006. 

z) MSc Thesis (USM), Wong Li Pai, “Investigating room assignment problem 

using evolutionary algorithm with the matrix representation”, 2003. 

aa) MSc Thesis (UUM), Wan Hussain bin Wan Ishak, “Predicting diseases using 

multi-backpropagation”, 2002. 

bb) MSc Thesis (UUM), Fadhilah binti Mat Yamin, “Penentuan kerelevanan 

dokumen menggunakan rangkaian rambatan balik, 2002. 

cc) MSc Thesis, Helena Bulbul (UM), “Object-oriented system development in 

contrast to conventional methodologies”, 2000. 

dd) MSc Thesis (UM), Siah Guat Choon, “Software risk management tool - 

Statistical manager”, 1999. 

ee) MSc Thesis (UM), Azizi Abdullah, “The development of software metric tool 

for structured design of web/internet based environment”, 1998. 


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17. JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD 

a) Journal Teknologi, Siri D, Univerisiti Teknologi Malaysia, Tempoh: 1 Mac 2001 

– 28 Februari 2010. 

18. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PAPER REVIEW 

a) International Journal of Computer and Industrial Engineering, “An 

optimization-based decision support system for a univerisity timetabling 

problem: An integrated constraint and binary programming” Dec. 2004. 

b) International Journal of Computer and Industrial Engineering, “School 

timetabling using rule base and genetic heuristics”, Nov. 2001. 

c) International Journal of Information Science, “Self organising map and 

multivariate statistics for classifying fire risks in Indonesian fire”, Jan 2005. 

d) International Journal of Information Science, Web Page Feature Selection 

and Classification Using Neural Network, Jan 2003, 

e) International Journal of Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence, 

“A mapping framework for evaluating constraint satisfaction solution 

methods”, 1998. 

f) Computer Journal, UK, “Constraint-based direct heuristics for high school 

timetabling”, 1999. 

g) Computer and Operations Research, USA, “The Fuzzy Shortest Length and 

the Corresponding Shortest Path in a Netwotk.”, Aug 2002. 

h) Computer and Operations Research, USA, “Continuous Fuzzy Gupta 

scheduling”, Mar 2000. 

i) Computer and Operations Research, USA, “Project Management and 

scheduling research and development”, Aug 2000. 

j) Computer and Operations Research, USA, “Forecasting with computerevolved 

model specifications: A genetic programming application, Oct. 

2001. 

19. LOCAL JOURNAL PAPER REVIEW 

a) UUM, JICT, The Architecture of an Integrated Support Tool for Software 

Product Certification Process, Ogos 2009 

b) UUM, JCIT, “A Framework for Mobile Query Searching Using Ontology 

Domain”, Jun 2009. 

c) Akademi Sains Malaysia – ASM Science Journal, “Data Cognitive Complexity: 

A New Measure”, May 2009. 


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d) ASM Science Journal, Akademi Sains Malaysia (ASM), “Developing SFIT: 

Experience and Lessons Learned”, Jul 2007. 

e) Jurnal Teknologi, UTM, “Fuzzy Linear Programming: A Modern Tool for 

Decision Making”, Mac 2002. 

f) Jurnal Teknologi Maklumat, FSKSM, UTM, “Comparing the performance of 

two stochastic search techniques fro solving single level of lot-sizing 

problems, Jan 2002. 

g) Jurnal Teknologi Maklumat, FSKSM, UTM, “Penggunaan algorithma genetik 

untuk mengoptimakan masalah penjadualan waktu kuliah di Universiti”, 

2001. 

h) Elektrika, FKE, UTM, “An offline segmentation technique for the processing 

of the courtesy amount of Malaysian bank cheques”, Aug 2000. 

i) Jurnal Teknologi, UTM, “Pengalaman menggunakan SPK-C Sistem 

pengurusan kursus pengaturcaraan C, Sep 2000. 

j) Jurnal Teknologi, UTM, “Penggunaan algorithma genetic untuk masalah 

penjadualan mesin pengeluaran”, Sep 1999. 

k) Jurnal Teknologi Maklumat, FSKSM, UTM, “Reduction of invariant 

moments complexity using principal component analysis”, Jun 1999. 

l) Jurnal Teknologi Maklumat,FSKSM, UTM, “Penentuan saiz optima bagi 

rangkaian neural: Satu kajian empirikal, May 1999. 

m) Jurnal Teknologi, UTM, “An efficient parallel algorithms for rectangle and 

midpoint methods on Sequent S27 system”, Apr 1999. 

n) Journal Teknologi Maklumat, FSKSM, UTM, “Back propagation model with 

an improved error function” ,Jul 1998. 

20. CONFERENCE PAPER REVIEW 

a) 10 th IEEE Regional Conference (TENCON 2000), Kuala Lumpur 25-27 Sept. 

2000. 

b) Student Conference on Research and Development 2001 (SCOReD 2001), 

Kuala Lumpur, 20-21 Feb 2001. 

c) IRPA/UPP Seminar, FSKSM, UTM, 7-8 Jun 2000. 

21. BOOK REVIEW 

a) Suhaimi Ibrahim, Wan Mohd Nasir Wan Kadir, Paridah Samsuri, Mohd Yazid 

Idris, Rozlina Mohamad, “Kejuruteraan Perisian”, Penerbitan UTM, 2000. 

22. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ENCYCLOPEDIA 


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22.1 Entry authoring 

a) Knowledge-based 

b) Functional programming 

22.2 Entry review 

a) Intelligent system 

b) Prolog 

c) Intelligent agent 

d) Software quality assurance 

e) Software metrics 

23. BOOKS 

a) Study Guide for Software Engineering – A Practitioner’s Approach, by Roger S. 

Pressman, 2002. 

b) Book Chapters (UTM Press): 

1. Trends and Directions of Bioinformatics – Volume 1 (2008) 

2. Trends and Directions of Bioinformatics – Volume 2 (2008) 

3. Advances in Bioinformatics (2008) 

4. Advances in Planning and Scheduling and Timetabling – Vol 1 (2008( 

5. Advances in Planning and Scheduling and Timetabling – Vol 2 (2008) 

6. Advances in Information and Communication Technologies (2008) 

24. OTHER CONSULTANCY AND TECHNICAL SERVICES 

a) IGS R&D Project Evaluation Panel 

Project: Genegate: Software tool for bioinformatics applications 

Role: Member 

Organisation: Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (MOSTE) 

Year: 2003 

b) IGS R&D Project Evaluation Panel 

Project: Integrated Patient Measuring and Diagnostic System (Lifematics) 

Role: Chaiman 


Year: 2003 

c) IGS R&D Project Evaluation Panel 

Project: Multi-channel Computer Controlled Portable Load Monitoring and 

Data Logging System for General Power Industry Applications. 

Role: Member 


Year: 2003 

d) Tender Audit and Accessment Committee 

Project: Inventory Management System (CODIMS-OIMS) from Ministry of 

Defence 

Role: Member 

Organisation: Ministry of Finance 

Year: 2003 


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25. OTHER SERVICES 

e) Assistant Treasury - Japan-Malaysia Cultural Exchange Society, 1993. 

f) Assistant Secretary - Artificial Intelligence Society, Malaysia ,1995. 

g) Member Printing and facilities committee, Seminar Kebangsaan Etika 

Professional, 1992. 

h) Session chairman, Seminar Komputer Dalam Islam, September 1994. 

i) Advisor to Computerisation committee of Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN), 1993 – 

1995. 

j) Advisor to Osaka in the World Cultural Show Project by staff and students of 

UTM, 1999/2000 

26. KEYNOTE SPEAKER/INVITED SPEAKER 

a) IT World, Managing Rapidly Changing Technology, 4th Annual UTM MSc IT 

Seminar, Ibnu Sina Institute, UTM, Johor, 2005. 

b) Bioinformatics – A tool for Bio-Knowledge Generation, International 

Conference on Information Technology and Multimedia (ICIMU’2005), Nov 

2005, UNITEN, Kajang. 

c) Roles of Bioinformatics – Current Status and Future Directions, ATMA, Sg 

Besi, 2005. 

d) Software Technologies for Electonic World, Kelantan Science and 

Technology Seminar, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, 2001. 


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