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aided software engineering (CASE), as well as modern approaches such as object-oriented development, metrics
and cost estimation, process considerations, and new applications such as software reuse.
SWE 484 Artificial Intelligence (3 = 3 + 0)
Prerequisite: 4th Year standing in Faculty
The focus of this course is on an intelligent agent acting in an environment. Introductory concepts such as
simple agents acting in simple, static environments and gradually increase the power of the agents to cope with
more challenging worlds. For simple agents in simple worlds we start with a highly restricted simple logic.
Then as the agent/environment requires, the logical power of the formalism is increased. LISP or Prolog, can
be used to support these implementations.
SWE 485 Pattern Recognition (3 = 3 + 0)
Prerequisite: 4th Year standing in Faculty
Parallel and sequential recognition methods. Bayesian decision procedures, perceptrons, statistical and syntactic
approaches, recognition grammars. Applications to be considered include: feature extraction and selection, scene
analysis, and optical character recognition.
SWE 486 Robotics (3 = 3 + 0)
Prerequisite: 4th Year standing in Faculty
This course provides a good introduction to all issues in mobile robotics, from locomotion to robot perception,
hardware, sensors, planning, reasoning and poise. The focus is on the computational aspects of robotics.
Faculty and Teaching Staff – Software Engineering
Dr Samia Loucif (Chair)
Associate Professor
PhD (Computer Science), Glasgow University, Scotland, UK, 1999, MSc (Computer Science),
Constantine University with the collaboration of Glasgow University, 1990, BSc (Computer Science),
Constantine University, Algeria, 1986
Dr Adel Khelifi
Associate Professor and Dean of Research and Graduate Studies
PhD (Software Engineering), ETS-Quebec University, Canada, 2005, MS (Management Information
System), University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada, 2001, Analyst Diploma (Computer Systems),
National Center of Informatics, Tunisia, 1995, BE (Industrial and Metallurgy Engineering), Annaba
University, Algeria, 1991
Dr Maher Ragheb Aburrous
Assistant Professor
PhD (Computer Science), University of Bradford, UK, 2010, MS University of Bradford, UK, 2007, MS
(Computer Information System), University of Banking and Financial Sciences, Jordan, 2003, BS
(Computer Science and Programming), University of Kuwait, Kuwait, 1989
Ms Haifaa Kattan
Assistant Instructor
MSc (Computer Science), University of Jordan, Jordan, 2005, BSc (Computer Science),
University of Petra, Jordan, 1999
Mr Murad Mustafa Al Rajab
Assistant Instructor
MSc (Computer Science), New York Institute of Technology, UAE, 2008, BSc (Computer
Science), Ajman University of Science and Technology, UAE, 2005
Ms Amal Aboaziza
Teaching Assistant
BSc (Computer Science), Garyounis University, Libya, 2003, Diploma (Liberal Arts), Miramar
College, USA, 1998
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