{"id":17,"date":"2015-12-21T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/khaled-shaban\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2026-02-11T13:43:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:43:36","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/khaled-shaban\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Interests:<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"noindent\">\n<li><em><strong>Primary:<\/strong><\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Computational Intelligence<\/li>\n<li>Data Mining\/Science<\/li>\n<li>Algorithms Design and Analysis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"noindent\">\n<li><em><strong>Secondary:<\/strong><\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Optimization<\/li>\n<li>Cloud Computing<\/li>\n<li>Cybersecurity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Funded Projects:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<em><strong>Optimal Energy Management Framework for Inverter-based Interconnected Microgrids with 100% Renewable Penetration<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d (4380,000 USD), <em><strong>Lead-<\/strong><\/em><strong><em>PI<\/em><\/strong>, 2026-2028, International Research Collaboration Co-Fund, Qatar University.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong><em>PREFACE: Advanced PREdictive Models with Feature Selection for Enhancing Academic Achievement and Employability: Forecasting and Strategic Recommendations in Health Professions Education<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d (300,000 QAR =~ 80,000 USD), <strong><em>PI<\/em><\/strong>, 2026-2028, Collaborative Grant 2025, Qatar University.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<em><strong>SEED &#8211; Humanizing Generative AI in Higher Education: Governance Strategies for Student Empowerment and Ethical Deployment in Qatar\u2019s Universities<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d (600,000 QAR =~ 160,000 USD), <strong><em>PI<\/em><\/strong>, 2025-2026, High Impact 2024, Qatar University.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>DeIN: A Drone-based Inspection System for Outdoor Insulators in Qatar<\/strong>,\u201d\u00a0(120,000 USD), <em><strong>Lead-<\/strong><\/em><strong><em>PI<\/em><\/strong>, 2024-2025, International Research Collaboration Co-Fund, Qatar University.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>Artificial Intelligence for Early Diagnosis of Oral Cancers: Stablishing an International Consortium<\/strong>,\u201d (80,000 USD),\u00a0<strong><em>PI<\/em><\/strong>, 2024-2025, Collaborative Grant, Qatar University.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>Towards Robust Ethical and Pro-Social Artificial Intelligence Enabled Extended Reality (AI-XR) Metaverse Applications<\/strong>,\u201d (600,000 QAR =~ 160,000 USD), <strong><em>PI<\/em><\/strong>, 2023-2024, High Impact 2022, Qatar University.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>AI-driven Secured Demand Response in Next Generation Smart Grid Using Blockchain and 5G Networks,<\/strong>\u201d (200,000 USD),\u00a0<em><strong>Primary Research Mentor<\/strong><\/em>, 2021-2023, Postdoctoral Research Program (PDRA) 7th cycle, Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF).<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>Artificial Intelligence for Early Diagnosis of Oral Cancers: A Bayesian Deep Neural Network<\/strong>,\u201d (160,000 USD), <em><strong>PI<\/strong><\/em>, 2021-2023, International Research Collaboration Co-Fund (IRCC) 2021, Qatar University.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>Development of Predictive Model for Learning Analytics using Machine Learning Approach<\/strong>,\u201d (200,000 USD), <em><strong>PI<\/strong><\/em>, 2021-2022, Internal Grant, Qatar University.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>MURASALAT: Multi-dialect Arabic Understanding Models for Empathy-based Negotiating Chatbot and Question Answering<\/strong>,\u201d (480,000 USD), <strong>Lead-<\/strong><em><strong>PI<\/strong><\/em>, 2021-2024, National Priorities Research Program (NPRP), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF).<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>Hybrid Machine Learning and Physics-based Modelling and Control of an Integrated Renewable Energy Plant for Water Desalination<\/strong>,\u201d (420,000 QAR =~115,000 USD), <em><strong>PI<\/strong><\/em>, 2021-2022, High Impact Grant, Qatar University.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>Optimized and Secured Demand Response Using Smart Meters and Blockchain for the Qatari Grid<\/strong>,\u201d\u00a0(600,000 USD), <em><strong>Lead-PI<\/strong><\/em>, 2019-2021, NPRP, QNRF.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>Assessing and Managing ICT Security Risks of Industrial Controls Systems for Oil and Natural Gas Production and Transmission<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0(720,000 USD), <em><strong>Lead-PI<\/strong><\/em>, 2016-2020, NPRP, QNRF.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>OMA:\u00a0Opinion Mining for Arabic with Models of Semantics and Credibility<\/strong>\u201d (1,049,428 USD), <strong><em>Co-Lead-PI<\/em><\/strong>, 2013-2017, NPRP, QNR).<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>Enabling Self-Healing for Smart Grid with Renewable Energy Resources<\/strong>\u201d (1,049,644 USD), <strong><em>Lead-PI<\/em><\/strong>, 2013-2016, NPRP, QNRF.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>Towards Energy Efficient Home Cooling<\/strong>\u201d (10,000 QAR=~3,000 USD), <strong><em>Lead-PI<\/em><\/strong>, Nov. 2012 &#8211; Nov. 2013, Student Research Grant, Qatar University.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>New Paradigms for Robust Cloud Networking Services<\/strong>\u201d (1,050,000 USD), <strong><em>Lead-PI<\/em><\/strong>, \u00a015 Feb. 2013 &#8211; 4 Sept. 2016, NPRP, QNRF.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>Asset Management for Power Transformers in Smart Grid<\/strong>\u201d (965,000 USD), <strong><em>Lead-PI<\/em><\/strong>, 15 Nov. 2012 &#8211; 15 May 2016, NPRP, QNRF.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>Innovative framework for scalable signal processing and power-efficient communication in healthcare wireless body area sensor networks<\/strong>\u201d (1,041,000 USD), <strong><em>Co-PI<\/em><\/strong>, Nov. 2011-May 2014, NPRP, QNRF.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>Towards Intelligent System for Seizure Detection<\/strong>\u201d (10,000 QAR=~3,000 USD), <strong><em>Lead-PI<\/em><\/strong>, 2011, Student Research Grant, Qatar University.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>Cancer Detection and Characterization in Prostate MR Images<\/strong>\u201d (115,000 QAR=~31,500 USD), <strong><em>Lead-PI<\/em><\/strong>, 2011-2012,\u00a0 Internal Grant, Qatar University.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>Building Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Applications for eLearning Systems<\/strong>\u201d (30,000 USD), <strong><em>Lead-PI<\/em><\/strong>, 2009, Undergraduate Research Program (UREP), QNRF.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>Learning Management System for Qatar University<\/strong>\u201d (10,000 QAR= ~3,000 USD), <strong><em>Lead-PI<\/em><\/strong>, 2009, Student Research Grant, Qatar University.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>e-PBL: An E-Learning Environment Supporting Problem-Based Learning<\/strong>\u201d (323,800 QAR=~89,000 USD), <strong><em>Co-PI<\/em><\/strong>, 2008-2010, Internal Grant, Qatar University.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>eLearning System for Qatar University<\/strong>\u201d (50,000 QAR=~14,000 USD), <strong><em>Lead-PI<\/em><\/strong>, 2008, Startup Grant, Qatar University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Publications:<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Patents:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Ahmed Gaouda, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, Magdy Salama, Atef Abdrabou, Ramadan ElShatshat, Mutaz Khair Alla, and Ahmed Abdrabou, \u201c<em><strong>Smart Device to Detect Faults in Primary Substation Power Feeders<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d The United States Patent and Trademark Office, No. US10794965B2, October 6, 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Ahmed Gaouda, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, Magdy Salama, Atef Abdrabou, Ramadan ElShatshat, Mutaz Khair Alla, and Ahmed Abdrabou, \u201c<em><strong>Smart Fault Detection Device to Anticipate Impending Faults in Power Transformers<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d The United States Patent and Trademark Office, No. US10613157B2, April 7, 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Ahmed Gaouda, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, Magdy Salama, Atef Abdrabou, Ramadan ElShatshat, Mutaz Khair Alla, and Ahmed Abdrabou, \u201c<strong><em>Smart Fault Detection Device<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The United States Patent and Trademark Office, No. US-2017-0307676-A1, October 26, 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong>Journals:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>A. Lutfi, A. El-Hag and <strong>K. Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Multilabel Classification and Acoustic Signature Analysis of Defects in Outdoor Ceramic Insulators<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d in IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 3638-3645, Dec. 2025, doi: 10.1109\/TDEI.2025.3558194.<\/li>\n<li>Najmath Ottakath<strong>,<\/strong> Abdullah Lutfi<strong>,<\/strong> Ali Hamdi<strong>, Khaled Shaban,<\/strong> Ayman El-Hag<strong>, \u201c<em>A Deep Learning Pipeline for Early Detection and Time Estimation of Flashover in High-Voltage Insulators Using Infrared Videos<\/em>,\u201d <\/strong>Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence<strong>, <\/strong>Elsevier. (<strong><u>Accepted 17\/11\/2025<\/u><\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Lamiaa Basyoni, Adnan Qayyum, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Ezieddin Elmahjub, Abdulaziz Al-Ali, Osama Halabi, and Qadir Junaid,\u201d<em>Generative AI-Driven Metaverse: &#8220;<strong>The Promises and Challenges of AI-Generated Content<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society. (<strong><u>Accepted 21\/9\/2025<\/u><\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Eman Aloraini, Ali Hamdi<strong>, Khaled Shaban, <\/strong>and Hozaifa Kassab Kassab<strong>, \u201c<em>LexiSem: A Re-Ranker Balancing Lexical and Semantic Quality for Enhanced Abstractive Summarization<\/em>,\u201d <\/strong>Neurocomputing<strong>, <\/strong>Elsevier. (<strong><u>Accepted 24\/5\/2025<\/u><\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Afnan Al-Ali, Ali Hamdi, Mohamed Elshrif, Keivin Isufaj, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Peter Chauvin, Sreenath Madathil, Ammar Daer, Faleh Tamimi, Raidan Ba-Hattab, \u201c<strong><em>CLASSEG: Advanced Multiclassification and Segmentation for Differential Diagnosis of Oral Lesions Using Deep Learning<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Scientific Reports. (<strong><u>Accepted 19\/5\/2025<\/u><\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Hawa Hamza, Dehlela Shabir, Omar Aboumarzouk, Abdulla Al-Ansari, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Nikhil V. Navkar, \u201c<em><strong>Automated Skills Assessment in Open Surgery: A Scoping Review<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier, Volume 153, 1 August 2025, 110893, ISSN 0952-1976, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.engappai.2025.110893\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.engappai.2025.110893<\/a>. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0952197625008930\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0952197625008930<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Alaa Awad Abdellatif, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Ahmed Massoud, \u201c<strong><em>Blockchain-Enabled Distributed Learning for Enhanced Smart Grid Security and Efficiency<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Computers and Electrical Engineering, Elsevier. (<strong><u>Accepted 10\/12\/2024<\/u><\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Alaa Awad Abdellatif, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Ahmed Massoud, \u201c<strong><em>ONDS: Optimum Node and Data Selection from Constrained IoT for Efficient Online Learning<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. (<strong><u>Accepted 12\/10\/2024<\/u><\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Lamiaa Basyoni, Aliya Tabassum, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Ezieddin Elmahjub, Osama Halabi, and Junaid Qadir, \u201c<strong><em>Navigating Privacy Challenges in the Metaverse: A Comprehensive Examination of Current Technologies and Platforms<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 144-152, July 2024, doi: 10.1109\/IOTM.001.2300197.<\/li>\n<li>Abdulla Lutfi, Ayman El Hag, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Non-Intrusive Ultrasonic Sensing and Deep Learning for Outdoor Ceramic Insulator Assessment<\/em><\/strong>\u201d, IEEE Transactions on Dielectric and Electrical Insulation. (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Accepted 15\/05\/2024<\/strong><\/span>)<\/li>\n<li>Alaa Awad Abdellatif, Noor Khial, Menna Helmy, Amr Mohamed, Aiman Erbad, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>ODL: Opportunistic Distributed Learning for Intelligent IoT Systems<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE Internet of Things Magazine. (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Accepted 23\/04\/2024<\/strong><\/span>)<\/li>\n<li>Arash Golabi, Abdelkarim Erradi, Hazim Qiblawey, Ashraf Tantawy, Ahmed Bensaid, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Optimal Operation of Reverse Osmosis Desalination Process with Deep Reinforcement Learning Methods<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Applied Intelligence, Springer, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10489-024-05452-8<\/li>\n<li>Aya Amer, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Ahmed Massoud, \u201c<strong><em>Optimization of Hybrid Renewable-Diesel Power Plants Considering Operational Cost, Battery Degradation, and Emissions<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Heliyon, Elsevier. (<strong><u>Accepted 23\/2\/2024<\/u><\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Alaa Awad Abdellatif, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Ahmed Massoud, \u201c<strong><em>SDCL: A Framework for Secure, Distributed, and Collaborative Learning in Smart Grids<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE Internet of Things Magazine. (<strong><u>Accepted 26\/10\/2023<\/u><\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Mohsen Shamas, Wassim El-Hajj, Hazem Hajj, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Metadial: A Meta-Learning Approach for Arabic Dialogue Generation<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), Volume 22, Issue 6, Article No.: 172, pp 1\u201321, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3590960.<\/li>\n<li>Tassneem Zamzam, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Ahmed Massoud, \u201c<strong><em>Optimal Reactive Power Dispatch in ADNs using DRL and the Impact of its Various Settings and Environmental Changes<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Sensors, 2023, 23, 7216. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/s23167216<\/li>\n<li>Roudy Touma, Hazem Hajj, Wassim El-Hajj, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Automated Generation of Human-readable Natural Arabic Text from RDF Data<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), Volume 22, Issue 4, Article No.: 98, pp 1\u201313, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3582262<\/li>\n<li>Tarek Naous, Zahraa Bassyouni, Bassel Mousi, Hazem Hajj, Wassim El-Hajj, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Open-Domain Response Generation in Low-Resource Settings using Self-Supervised Pre-training of Warm-Started Transformers<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), Volume 22, Issue 4, Article No.: 97, pp 1\u201312, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3579164<\/li>\n<li>Aya Amer, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Ahmed Massoud, \u201c<strong><em>Demand Response in HEMSs using DRL and the Impact of its Various<\/em> <em>Configurations and Environmental Changes<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d <em>Energies<\/em>, MDPI, 2022, 15, 8235. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/en15218235.<\/li>\n<li>Aya Amer, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Ahmed Massoud, \u201c<strong><em>DRL-HEMS: Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent for Demand Response in Home Energy Management Systems Considering Customers and Operators Perspectives<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. (<strong><u>Accepted 28\/6\/2022<\/u><\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Mosbah Aouad, Hazem Hajj, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Rabih A. Jabr, and Wassim Hajj, \u201c<strong><em>A CNN-Sequence-to-Sequence Network with Attention for Residential Short-term Load Forecasting<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Electric Power Systems Research, Elsevier, 2022. (<strong><u>Accepted 29\/5\/2022<\/u><\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Omama Hamad, Ali Hamdi, Sayed Hamdi, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>StEduCov: An Explored and Benchmarked Dataset on Stance Detection in Tweets Towards Online Education During COVID-19 Pandemic<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Big Data and Cognitive Computing, MDPI, 2022. <strong>(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Accepted 25\/5\/2022<\/span>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Khaled Shaaban, Ali Hamdi, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Machine Learning-based Multi-target Regression to Effectively Predict Turning Movements at Signalized Intersections<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, Elsevier, March 14, 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Tassneem Zamzam, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Ahmed Gaouda, and Ahmed Massoud, \u201c<strong><em>Performance Assessment of Two-timescale Multi-objective Volt\/Var Optimization Scheme Considering EV Charging Stations, BESSs, and RESs in Active Distribution Networks<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Journal: Electric Power Systems Research, Elsevier. (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Accepted 30\/1\/2022<\/strong><\/span>)<\/li>\n<li>Ali Hamdi, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Abdelkarim Erradi, Amr Mohamed, Shakila Khan Rumi, and Flora Salim, \u201c<em><strong>Spatiotemporal Data Mining: A Survey on Challenges and Open Problems<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d Artificial Intelligence Review (AIRE), 15 April 2021. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10462-021-09994-y<\/li>\n<li>Aya Amer, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Ahmed Gaouda, and Ahmed Massoud, \u201c<strong><em>Home Energy Management System Embedded with a Multi-Objective Demand\u00a0Response Optimization Model to Benefit Customers and Operators<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Energies, MDPI, 2021, 14, 257. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/en14020257<\/li>\n<li>Ashraf Tantawy, Abdelkarim Erradi, Sherif Abdelwahed, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Model-Based Design for Cyber Physical System Security: A Case Study<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Computers and Security Journal, Elsevier, September, 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Atika Qazi, H. Fayaz, Nasrunin Abd. Rahim, Glenn Hardeker, Daniyal Alghazzawi, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Khalid Haruna, \u201c<strong><em>Towards Sustainable Energy: A Systematic Review of Renewable Energy Sources, Technologies, and Public Opinions<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 63837-63851, 23 May 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Gilbert Badaro, Ramy Baly, Hazem Hajj, Wassim El-Hajj, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, Nizar Habash, Ahmad Al-Sallab, and Ali Hamdi, \u201c<strong><em>A Survey of Opinion Mining in Arabic: A Comprehensive System Perspective Covering Challenges and Advances in Tools, Resources, Models, Applications and Visualizations<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), vol. 18, issue 3, pp. 27, 9 May 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Kamel Benhmed, Abdelniser Mooman, Abdunnaser Younes, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Ayman El-Hag, \u201c<em><strong>Feature Selection for Effective Health Index Diagnoses of Power Transformers<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d Power Engineering Letters, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, , vol. 33, issue 6, pp. 3223-3226, December 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Elias Bou-Harb, Nasir Ghani, Abdelkarim Erradi, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Passive Inference of Attacks on CPS Communication Protocols<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Journal of Information Security and Applications, Elsevier,\u00a0vol. 43, pp. 110-122, December 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Ali Hamdi, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Anazida Zainal, \u201c<strong><em>CLASENTI: A Class-specific Sentiment Analysis Framework<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), vol. 17, issue 4, no 32, August 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Tarek Khalifa, Atef Abdrabou, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and A. M. Gaouda, \u201c<strong><em>Heterogeneous Wireless Networks for Smart Grid Distribution Systems: Advantages and Limitations<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d MDPI Sensors, 18, 1517, 11 May 2018.<\/li>\n<li>A. M. Gaouda, Atef Abdrabou, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Mutaz Khairalla, A. M. Abdrabou, Ramadan El Shatshat, and M.M.A. Salama, \u201c<em><strong>A Smart IEC 61850 Merging Unit for Impending Fault Detection in Transformers<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 1812-1821, May 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Ramy Hussein, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, and Ayman H. El-Hag, \u201c<strong><em>Denoising Different Types of Acoustic Partial Discharge Signals using Power Spectral Subtraction<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d High Voltage, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 44-50, March 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Ahmed E.B. Abu-Elanien, M.M.A. Salama, and <strong>Khaled B. Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Modern network reconfiguration techniques for service restoration in distribution systems: A step to a smarter grid<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Alexandria Engineering Journal, Elsevier, vol. 57, issue 4, pp. 3959-3967, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>M. Pourvali, C. Cavdar, <strong>K. Shaban<\/strong>, J. Crichigno, N. Ghani \u201c<em><strong>Post-failure repair for cloud-based infrastructure services after disasters<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d Computer Communications, Elsevier, Vol. 111, pp. 29-40,\u00a0October 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Aboelsood Zidan, Mutaz Khairalla, Ahmed M. Abdrabou, Tarek Khalifa, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Atef Abdrabou, Ramadan El Shatshat, and A. M. Gaouda, \u201c<strong><em>Fault Detection, Isolation and Service Restoration in Distribution Systems: State-of-the-art and Future Trends<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 2170 &#8211; 2185, September 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Long Qu, Chadi Assi, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Maurice Khabbaz, \u201c<strong><em>A Reliability-Aware Network Service Chain Provisioning with Delay Guarantees in NFV-Enabled Enterprise Datacenter Networks<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 554-568, September 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Ramy Baly, Hazem Hajj, Nizar Habash, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, and Wassim El-hajj, \u201c<em><strong>A Sentiment Treebank and Morphologically Enriched Recursive Deep Models for Effective Sentiment Analysis in Arabic<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), vol. 16, issue 4, no. 23, July 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Ahmad El Sallab, Ramy Baly, Hazem Hajj, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, Wassim El-hajj, and Gilbert Badaro, \u201c<strong><em>AROMA: A Recursive Deep Learning Model for Opinion Mining in Arabic as a Low Resource Language<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), vol. 16, issue 4, no. 25, July 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Zhuoyao Wang, Majeed M. Hayat, Nasir Ghani, and <strong>Khaled B. Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Optimizing Cloud-Service Performance: Efficient Resource Provisioning Via Optimal Workload Allocation<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 1689-1702, 1 June 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Maurice Khabbaz, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Chadi Assi, \u201c<em><strong>Delay-Sensitive Flow Scheduling In Low Latency Enterprise Datacenter Networks: Modelling and Performance Analysis<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 2078-2090, May 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Tarek Khalifa, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, Atef Abdrabou, Abdoulmenim Bilh, and Kshirasagar Naik, \u201c<strong><em>Modelling and Performance Analysis of TCP Variants for Data Collection in Smart Power Grids<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d\u00a0Computer Communications, Elsevier, vol. 103, pp. 39-48, 1 May 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Ramy Hussein, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Ayman El-Hag, \u201c<strong><em>Robust Feature Extraction and Classification of Acoustic Partial Discharge Signals Corrupted with Noise<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 405-413, 3 March 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Abd Almonam Zahed, Ayman El-Hag, Nasser Qaddoumi, Ramy Hussein, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Comparison of Different Fourth Order Hilbert Fractal Antennas for Partial Discharge Measurement<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation,\u00a0vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 175-182, February 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Sara Ayoubi, Chadi Assi, Yiheng Chen, Tarek Khalifa, and <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Restoration Methods for Cloud Multicast Virtual Networks<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, vol. 78, pp. 180-190, 15 January 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Ali Hamdi, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Anazida Zainal, \u201c<strong><em>A Review on Challenging Issues in Arabic Sentiment Analysis<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Journal of Computer Science, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 471-481,\u00a02016.<\/li>\n<li>Abdulaziz M. Ghaleb, Tarek Khalifa, Sara Ayoubi, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, and Chadi Assi, \u201c<strong><em>Surviving Multiple Failures in Multicast Virtual Networks with Virtual Machines Migration<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d\u00a0IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 899-912, 4 December 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Ramy Baly, Roula Hobeica, Hazem Hajj, Wassim El-hajj, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, and Ahmad Al-sallab, \u201c<strong><em>A Meta-Framework for Modeling the Human Reading Process in Sentiment Analysis<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d ACM Transactions on Information Systems, vol. 35, no. 1, article 7, October\u00a02016.<\/li>\n<li>Ramy Hussein, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, and Ayman H. El-Hag, \u201c<strong><em>Energy Conservation-based Thresholding for Effective Wavelet Denoising of Partial Discharge Signals<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IET Science, Measurement &amp; Technology, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 813 &#8211; 822, October 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Long Qu, Chadi Assi, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<em><strong>Delay-Aware Scheduling and Resource Optimization with Network Function Virtualization<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 64, no. 9, pp. 3746 &#8211; 3758, 9 September\u00a02016.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, Ayman H. El-Hag, and Kamel Benhmed, \u201c<strong><em>Prediction of Transformer Furan Levels<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Power Engineering Letters, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 1778-1779, August 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Ramy\u00a0\u00a0 Hussein, <strong>Khaled\u00a0 Shaban<\/strong>, and Ayman\u00a0 El-Hag, \u201c<strong><em>Denoising of Acoustic Partial Discharge Signals Corrupted with Random Noise<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 1453-1459, August 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Sara Ayoubi, Chadi Assi, Lata Narayanan, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Optimal Polynomial Time Algorithm for Restoring Multicast Cloud Services<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE Communication Letters, vol. 20, no. 8, pp. 1543 &#8211; 1546, 23 May\u00a02016.<\/li>\n<li>H. Bai, <strong>K. Shaban<\/strong>, M. Khodeir, F. Gu, J. Crichigno, S. Khan, and N. Ghani, \u201c<strong><em>Overlay Network Scheduling Design<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Computer Communications, Elsevier, vol. 82, pp. 28-38, 15 May 2016.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, Abdullah Kadri, and Eman Rezk, \u201c<strong><em>Urban Air Pollution Monitoring System with Forecasting Models<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 2598 &#8211; 2606, 04 January, 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Abdul-Rahim Ahmad, Imran Ali Tasadduq, Muhammad Hasan Imam, and <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, \u201d<em><strong>Automated Discovery and Utilization of Tacit Knowledge in Facility Layout Planning and Optimization<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, Journal of Software and Systems Development, vol. 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Ramy Hussein, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, Ayman El-Hag, \u201c<strong><em>Wavelet Transform with Histogram-based Threshold Estimation for Online Partial Discharge Signal Denoising<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 64 , no. 12, pp.\u00a03601 \u2013 3614, 30 July\u00a02015.<\/li>\n<li><strong>K. B. Shaban<\/strong>, M. Abdulwahed, and A. Younes, \u201c<strong><em>Problem-centric Process for Research-based Learning<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP), vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 24-30, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Sara Keretna, Chee Peng Lim, Doug Creighton, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, &#8220;<strong><em>Enhancing Medical Named Entity Recognition with an Extended Segment Representation Technique<\/em><\/strong>,&#8221; Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Elsevier, vol. 119, no. 2, pp. 88-100, April 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Mustafa Harbaji, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Ayman El-Hag, \u201c<strong><em>Classification of Common Partial Discharge Types in Oil-Paper Insulation System Using Acoustic Signals<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE Transaction on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 1674-1683, 4 June 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Sara Ayoubi, Chadi Assi, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Lata Narayanan, \u201c<em><strong>MINTED:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong><em>Multicast Virtual Network Embedding in Cloud Data Centers with Delay Constraints<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE Transaction on Communications, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 1291-1305, 16 February 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Feng Gu, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Nasir Ghani, Samee Khan, Mahshid R. Naeini, Majeed M. Hayat, Chadi Assi, \u201c<strong><em>Survivable Cloud Network Mapping for Disaster Recovery Support<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 64, no. 8, pp. 2353-2366, September 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Tarek Khalifaa, Atef Abdraboub, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, Maazen Alsabaanc, and Kshirasagar Naikd \u201c<strong><em>Transport Layer Performance Analysis and Optimization for Smart Metering Infrastructure<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, vol. 46, pp. 83-93, November 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Chadi Assi, Sara Ayoubi, Samir Sebbah,\u00a0<strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Towards Scalable Traffic Management in Cloud Data Centers<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 1033-1045, March 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Abduljalil Mohamed,\u00a0<strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, Amr Mohamed, \u201c<strong><em>Evidence-Based Combination of Weighted Classifiers Approach for Epileptic Seizure Detection using EEG Signals<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics (IJKDB), Volume 3, Issue 2, Pages 27-44, April-June 2013.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong><\/em>, Ayman El-Hag, and Andrei Matveev, \u201c<em><strong>A Cascade of Artificial Neural Networks to Predict Transformers Oil Parameters<\/strong><\/em>\u201d,\u00a0IEEE Transaction on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 516-523, April 2009.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong><\/em>, \u201c<em><strong>A Semantic Approach for Document Clustering<\/strong><\/em>\u201d,\u00a0Journal of Software, Academy Publisher, vol. 4, no. 5, pp.\u00a0391-404, July 2009.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong>Conferences:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Dehlela Shabir, Nihal Abdurahiman, Jhasketan Padhan, Julien Abinahed, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Nikhil Navkar, \u201c<strong><em>An Automated Pipeline for Large-Scale 3D Annotation of Laparoscopic Instruments to Enable Deep Learning Tasks in Box Trainers<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 2026 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI 2026) Granada, Spain, May 8-10, 2026. (<strong><u>Accepted 11\/2\/2026<\/u><\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Dehlela Shabir, Nihal Abdurahiman, Julien Abinahed, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Nikhil Navkar, \u201c<strong><em>Real-time Semantic Segmentation of Laparoscopic Instruments in Training Environments: Dataset Generation and Benchmarking<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 2026 International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AAIML 2026), Tokyo, Japan, March 20 -22, 2026. (<strong><u>Accepted 9\/11\/2025<\/u><\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Ali Elmancy, Ali Hamdi, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Ayman El-Hag, \u201c<strong><em>Real-time Insulator Defect Detection and Damage Assessment on Edge for UAV-Based Inspection<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 26<sup>th<\/sup> International Middle East Power Systems Conference (MEPCON 2025), Aswan, Egypt, December 20-22, 2025. <strong>(<u>Accepted 11\/10\/2025<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ahmad El-Hajj, Alaa Awad Abdellatif, Mohammed Al-Husseini, Wassim El-Hajj, Hazem Hajj, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Rabih A. Jabr, \u201c<strong><em>EECG: An Efficient and Scalable Blockchain Solution for Securing Two-Way Cryptographic Communications in Smart Grids<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The ACS\/IEEE 22<sup>nd<\/sup> International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2025), Doha, Qatar, October 19-22, 2025. <strong>(<u>Accepted 7\/8\/2025<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Kamal Mohamed, Lillian Wassim, Ali Hamdi, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Weather-Aware Transformer for Real-Time Route Optimization in Drone-as-a-Service Operations<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The ACS\/IEEE 22<sup>nd<\/sup> International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2025), Doha, Qatar, October 19-22, 2025. <strong>(<u>Accepted 7\/8\/2025<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Nada Ayman, Shaimaa Alaa, Ali Hamdi, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Hozaifa Kassab, \u201c<strong><em>Personalized Route Planning for Asthma Patients Using Multi-Head Attention and Deep Reinforcement Learning<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The ACS\/IEEE 22<sup>nd<\/sup> International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2025), Doha, Qatar, October 19-22, 2025. <strong>(<u>Accepted 7\/8\/2025<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Mohamed Osman, Mohamed Elshrif, Muna Shaweesh, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Raidan Ba Hattab, Elham Abu Alhaija, and Ridha Hamila,\u201d<strong><em>Dental Age Estimation From Mandibular Teeth in Jordanian Population<\/em><\/strong>, \u201d The ACS\/IEEE 22<sup>nd<\/sup> International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2025), Doha, Qatar, October 19-22, 2025. <strong>(<u>Accepted 7\/8\/2025<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Youssef Maklad, Fares Wael, Ali Hamdi, Wael Elsersy, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201d<strong><em>A Dense Retrieval-based Multi-Agent System for Network Protocol Fuzzing<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The ACS\/IEEE 22<sup>nd<\/sup> International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2025), Doha, Qatar, October 19-22, 2025. <strong>(<u>Accepted 7\/8\/2025<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Mohamed Basem, Islam Oshallah, Ali Hamdi, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Hozaifa Kassab, \u201d<strong><em>Two-Stage Quranic QA via Ensemble Retrieval and Instruction-Tuned Answer Extraction<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The ACS\/IEEE 22<sup>nd<\/sup> International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2025), Doha, Qatar, October 19-22, 2025. <strong>(<u>Accepted 7\/8\/2025<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ali Hamdi, Malak Mohamed, Rokaia Emad, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201d<strong><em>An Ensemble Classification Approach in A Multi-Layered Large Language Model Framework for Disease Prediction<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The ACS\/IEEE 22<sup>nd<\/sup> International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2025), Doha, Qatar, October 19-22, 2025. <strong>(<u>Accepted 7\/8\/2025<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Mohammad Basheer Kotit, Omama Hamad, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Ali Hamdi, \u201d<strong><em>CAKD: A Confidence-Aware Knowledge Distillation Approach for Building Compact and Efficient LLMs<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The ACS\/IEEE 22<sup>nd<\/sup> International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2025), Doha, Qatar, October 19-22, 2025. <strong>(<u>Accepted 7\/8\/2025<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Shahd Shaban, Ali Hamdi, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201d<strong><em>Efficient Segmentation of Solar Panel Defects Using Knowledge Distillation<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The ACS\/IEEE 22<sup>nd<\/sup> International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2025), Doha, Qatar, October 19-22, 2025. <strong>(<u>Accepted 7\/8\/2025<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Abdulrahman Allam, Seif Ahmed, Ali Hamdi, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201d<strong><em>Scaling Arabic Medical Chatbots Using Synthetic Data: Enhancing Generative AI with Synthetic Patient Records<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The ACS\/IEEE 22<sup>nd<\/sup> International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2025), Doha, Qatar, October 19-22, 2025. <strong>(<u>Accepted 7\/8\/2025<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Marena Anis, Ali Hamdi, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201d<strong><em>Attentional Language Modeling for Text to 3D Generation<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The ACS\/IEEE 22<sup>nd<\/sup> International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2025), Doha, Qatar, October 19-22, 2025. <strong>(<u>Accepted 7\/8\/2025<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Mohamed Younes, Omar Walid, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Ali Hamdi, and Mai Hassan, \u201d<strong><em>Augmented Fine-Tuned LLMs for Enhanced Recruitment Automation<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The ACS\/IEEE 22<sup>nd<\/sup> International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2025), Doha, Qatar, October 19-22, 2025. <strong>(<u>Accepted 7\/8\/2025<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Omar Walid, Mohamed Younes, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Ali Hamdi, and Mai Hassan,\u201d<strong><em>MSLEF: Multi-Segment LLM Ensemble Finetuning in Recruitment<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The ACS\/IEEE 22<sup>nd<\/sup> International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2025), Doha, Qatar, October 19-22, 2025. <strong>(<u>Accepted 7\/8\/2025<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Osama Abdellatif, Ahmed Ayman, Abdelrahman Hassan, Ali Hamdi, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201d<strong><em>LLM-Ops and Ensemble Intelligence for Robust LLM Performance: Integrating Fine-Tuning and Majority Voting<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The ACS\/IEEE 22<sup>nd<\/sup> International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2025), Doha, Qatar, October 19-22, 2025. <strong>(<u>Accepted 7\/8\/2025<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Mariam Elewa, Ali Hamdi, Hozaifa Kassab, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Balancing Factual Consistency and Diversity in Abstractive Summarization via Model-Agnostic Composite Reranking<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The ACS\/IEEE 22<sup>nd<\/sup> International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2025), Doha, Qatar, October 19-22, 2025. <strong>(<u>Accepted 7\/8\/2025<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Najmath Ottakath, Abdulla Lutfi, Ali Hamdi, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Ayman El-Hag, \u201c<strong><em>Deep Learning-Based Time-to-Flashover Prediction in Outdoor Insulators<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 17<sup>th<\/sup> Conference on Optimization and Information Systems (COSI 2025), Bejaia, Algeria, June 1-3, 2025. <strong>(<u>Accepted 14\/4\/2025<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Dehlela Shabir, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Nikhil Navkar, \u201c<strong><em>Deep Learning-Based Gesture Recognition for Enhanced Laparoscopic Suturing Skill Evaluation and Training<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 9<sup>th<\/sup> International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics (ICMHI 2025), Kyoto, Japan, May 16-18, 2025. <strong>(<u>Accepted 14\/2\/2025<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Yasmine Abu Adla, Hazem Hajj, Wassim El Hajj, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201d<strong><em>Enhancing LLM-based Arabic Negotiation by Fine Tuning on Dialogue Shortcomings<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 7<sup>th<\/sup> International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2024), Trento, Italy, October 19 and 20, 2024. <strong>(<u>Accepted 16\/9\/2024<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ahmad Hajj, Samah Albast, Yasmine Abu Adla, Shady Elbassuoni, Hazem Hajj, Wassim El Hajj, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201d<strong><em>Design and Comparison of Arabic Negotiation Bots Using LLMs versus Seq2Seq Models with Reinforcement Learning<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 7<sup>th<\/sup> International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2024), Trento, Italy, October 19 and 20, 2024. <strong>(<u>Accepted 16\/9\/2024<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Samah Albast, Wassim El-Hajj, Hazem Hajj, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Shady Elbassuoni, \u201c<strong><em>Multimodal Arabic Negotiation Bots<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 1<sup>st<\/sup> Workshop on Generative AI for E-Commerce held in conjunction with CIKM 2024. <strong>(<u>Accepted 30\/8\/2024<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Omama Hamad, Ali Hamdi, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>ASEM: Enhancing Empathy in Chatbot through Attention-based Sentiment and Emotion Modeling<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), Torino, Italy, 20-25 May, 2024. <strong>(<u>Accepted 20\/2\/2024<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Sohaila Eltanbouly, Abdelkarim Erradi, Ashraf Tantawy, Ahmed Ben Said, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Hazim Qiblawey, \u201c<strong><em>LIME: Long-term Forecasting Model for Desalination Membrane Fouling to Estimate the Remaining Useful Life of Membrane<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 36<sup>th<\/sup> International Conference on Industrial, Engineering &amp; Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA\/AIE 2023), July 19 \u2013 22, 2023, Shanghai, China. <strong>(<u>Accepted 25\/3\/2023<\/u>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Alaa Awad Abdellatif, Mhd Saria Allahham, Noor Khial, Amr Mohamed, Aiman Erbad, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Reliable Federated Learning for Age Sensitive Mobile Edge Computing Systems<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2023), 28 May \u2013 01 June 2023, Rome, Italy. <strong>(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Accepted 18\/1\/2023<\/span>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Arash Golabi, Abdelkarim Erradi, Hazim Qiblawey, Ashraf Tantawy, Ahmed Bensaid, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Reverse Osmosis Desalination Process Modeling and Simulation with Membrane Fouling<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 9th International Conference on Modeling Simulation and Applied Optimization 2023 (ICMSAO&#8217;23), Morocco, April 26th-28th 2023. (<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Accepted 11\/12\/2022<\/span><\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Alaa Abdellatif, Aya Amer, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Ahmed Massoud,\u00a0 \u201c<strong><em>A Novel Multivariate and Accurate Detection Scheme for Electricity Theft Attacks in Smart Grids<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2023), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, February 20-22, 2023. <strong>(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Accepted 17\/11\/2022<\/span>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Omama Hamad, Ali Hamdi, Sayed Hamdi and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Attention-based Model for Accurate Stance Detection<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 25th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2022), Brno, Czech Republic, September 6\u20139, 2022. <strong>(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Accepted 5\/6\/2022<\/span>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Omama Hamad, Ali Hamdi, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<em><strong>Empathy and Persona of English vs. Arabic Chatbots: A Survey and Future Directions<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d 25th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2022), Brno, Czech Republic, September 6\u20139, 2022. <strong>(<em>Accepted 5\/6\/2022<\/em>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ali Hamdi, Qais Al-Nuzaili, Fuad Ghaleb, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<em><strong>C-SAR: Class-specific and Adaptive Recognition for Arabic Handwritten Cheques<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d 6th International Conference of Reliable Information and Communication Technology 2021 (IRICT 2021), 22-23 December 2021, Virtual Conference. (<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>accepted<\/strong><\/span><\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Ali Hamdi, Amr Aboeleneen, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>MARL: Multimodal Attentional Representation Learning for Disease Prediction<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 13th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2021), September 22-24, 2021, Virtual Conference. Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 12899, pp. 14\u201327, 2021). (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Nominated for the Conference Best Paper Award<\/strong><\/span>).<\/li>\n<li>Raphaelle Akhras, Wassim El-Hajj, Michel Majdalani, Hazem Hajj, Rabih Jabr, and <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Securing Smart Grid Communication using Ethereum Smart Contracts<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 16th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2020), 15-19 June 2020, Limassol, Cyprus.<\/li>\n<li>Neha Kamalraj Bhatia, Ayman H. El-Hag, and <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Machine Learning-based Regression and Classification Models for Oil Assessment of Power Transformers<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Informatics, IoT, and Enabling Technologies (ICIoT\u201920), 2-5 February 2020, Doha, Qatar.<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Sheikh, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Finding Behavioural and Imaging Biomarkers of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) using Artificial Intelligence: A Review<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Informatics, IoT, and Enabling Technologies (ICIoT\u201920), 2-5 February 2020, Doha, Qatar.<\/li>\n<li>Arash Golabi, Abdelkarim Erradi, Ashraf Tantawy, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Detecting False Data Injection Attacks in LinearParameter Varying Cyber-Physical Systems<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 2019 International Conference on Cyber Security for Emerging Technologies (CSET), October 27-29, 2019, Doha, Qatar.<\/li>\n<li>Morteza Safaei Pour, Antonio Mangino, Kurt Friday, Matthias Rathbun, Elias Bou-Harb, Farkhund Iqbal, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Abdelkarim Erradi, \u201c<strong><em>Data-driven Curation, Learning and Analysis for Inferring Evolving IoT Botnets in the Wild<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, August 26\u201329, 2019, Canterbury, UK. (<strong><em>Received the Conference Best Research Paper Award<\/em><\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Obeida ElJundi, Wissam Antoun, Nour El Droubi, Hazem Hajj, Wassim El-Hajj, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>hULMonA: The Universal Language Model in Arabic<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 4th Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (WANLP-2019), 1 August, 2019, collocated with the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019) 28 July \u2013 2 August, 2019, Florence, Italy.<\/li>\n<li>Ramy Baly, Alaa Khaddaj, Hazem Hajj, Wassim El-Hajj, and <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>ArSentD-LEV: A Multi-Topic Corpus for Target-based Sentiment Analysis in Arabic Levantine Tweets<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 3rd Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT3), May 8, 2018, collocated with the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018), 7-12 May 2018, Miyazaki, Japan.<\/li>\n<li>Mark M. R. Ibrahim, H. A. Mostafa, M. M. A. Salama, R. El\u2013Shatshat, and <strong>K. B. Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>A Graph-theoretic Service Restoration Algorithm for Power Distribution Systems<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 2018 International Conference on Innovative Trends in Computer Engineering (ITCE\u20192018), February 19 \u2013 21, 2018\u060c Aswan, Egypt.<\/li>\n<li>Ramy Baly, Georges El-Khoury, Rawan Moukalled, Rita Aoun, Hazem Hajj, Wassim El-Hajj and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Comparative Evaluation of Sentiment Analysis Methods Across Arabic Dialects<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 3rd International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistics (ACLing 2017), November 5-6, 2017, Dubai, UAE.<\/li>\n<li>M. Pourvali, D. Oliverira, <strong>K. Shaban<\/strong>, J. Crichigno, E. Bou-Harb, and N. Ghani,\u00a0\u201d<strong><em>Reliable Embedding of Multicast Virtual Network Services in Cloud Networks<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Networking (IEEE CloudNet 2017), 25-27 September 2017, Prague, Czech Republic.<\/li>\n<li>J. Crichigno, D. Oliveira, M. Pourvali, D. Torres, <strong>K. Shaban<\/strong>, E. Bou-Harb, and N. Ghani,\u00a0\u201d<strong><em>Joint Routing and Placement of Virtual Network Functions<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d\u00a0IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Networking (IEEE CloudNet 2017), 25-27 September 2017, Prague, Czech Republic.<\/li>\n<li>Ramy Baly, Gilbert Badaro, Ali Hamdi, Rawan Moukalled, Rita Aoun, Georges El-Khoury, Ahmad Al Sallab, Hazem Hajj, Nizar Habash, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Wassim El-Hajj,\u201d<em><strong>OMAM at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Evaluation of English State-of-the-Art Sentiment Analysis Models for Arabic and a New Topic-based Model<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation 2017 (SemEval-2017), August 3 to 4, 2017, collocated with the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2017) , July 30 to August 4, 2017, Vancouver, Canada.<\/li>\n<li>Mohammed El-Razzaz, Chadi Helwe, Shady Elbassuoni, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<em><strong>Methodical Evaluation of Arabic Word Embeddings<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2017), July 30 to August 4, 2017, Vancouver, Canada.<\/li>\n<li>Ayman Othman, Monsef Tahir, Ramadan El Shatshat, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201d<strong><em>Application of Ensemble Classification Method for Power Transformers Condition Assessment<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE 30th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), April 30 to May 3, 2017, Windsor, Canada.<\/li>\n<li>Ramy Hussein, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, and Ayman El-Hag, \u201d<strong><em>Robust Detection of Acoustic Partial Discharge Signals in Noisy Environments<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 2017 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC 2017), May 22-25, 2017, Torino, Italy.<\/li>\n<li>Ramy Baly, Gilbert Badaro, Georges El-Khoury, Rawan Moukalled, Rita Aoun, Hazem Hajj, Wassim El-Hajj, Nizar Habash, and\u00a0<strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<em><strong>A Characterization Study of Arabic Twitter Data with a Benchmarking for State-of-the-Art Opinion Mining Models<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d The 3rd Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (WANLP-2017), April 3, 2017, Valencia, Spain.<\/li>\n<li>Rim EL Ballouli, Wassim El-Hajj, Ahmad Ghandour, Shady Elbassuoni, Hazem Hajj and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>CAT: Credibility Analysis of Arabic Content on Twitter<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 3rd Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (WANLP-2017), April 3, 2017, Valencia, Spain.<\/li>\n<li>M. Elkhatib, M. Ahmed, R. Elshatshat, M. Salama, and <strong>K. Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Coordinated Voltage Control for Distribution System Restoration in Smart Grids<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 12th GCC \u2013 CIGRE International Conference (GCC Power 2016), Pages 51-55, Nov. 8-10, 2016, Doha, Qatar.<\/li>\n<li>Kamel Benhmed, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Ayman El-Hag, \u201c<strong><em>Estimating Transformers Health Index using Artificial Intelligent Techniques<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 12th GCC \u2013 CIGRE International Conference (GCC Power 2016), Pages 466-471, Nov. 8-10, 2016, Doha, Qatar.<\/li>\n<li>Abdulaziz M. Ghaleb, Tarek Khalifa, and <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Enhancing the Performance of Post-Failure Restoration Schemes in Multi-Tenant Networks<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 3rd International Workshop on Management of SDN and NFV Systems (ManSDN\/NFV 2016), Nov. 4, 2016, Montreal, Canada.<\/li>\n<li>Long Qu, Chadi Assi, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Maurice Khabbaz, \u201c<strong><em>Reliability-Aware Service Provisioning in NFV-enabled Enterprise Datacenter Networks<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 12th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2016), Oct. 31 &#8211; Nov. 4, 2016, Montreal, Canada.<\/li>\n<li>Jean Raymond Daher, Satish Chilkaka, Abdunnaser Younes, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<em><strong>Association Rule Mining On Five Years Of Motor Vehicle Crashes<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d The 5th International Conference on Transportation and Traffic Engineering (ICTTE 2016), July 6-10, 2016, Lucerne, Switzerland.<\/li>\n<li>Atef Abdrabou, Hosam Hittini, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Wireless Multihoming for Smart Grid High Data Rate Applications<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 15th Annual Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS 2016), 18-20 April 2016, London, England, UK.<\/li>\n<li>Ayman AL Zaatari, Reem El Ballouli, Shady Elbassuoni, Wassim El-Hajj, Hazem Hajj, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Nizar Habash, \u201c<strong><em>Arabic Corpora for Credibility Analysis<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016), 23-28 May 2016, Portoro&#x200d; (Slovenia).<\/li>\n<li>NourEldeen Elsayad, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, Ahmad Massoud, and Ramdan El-Shatshat, \u201d<strong><em>Voltage\/load Control Strategy for Smart Distribution Grids with a High Penetration of Renewable Energy Sources<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality (ICREPQ\u201916), 4-6 May, 2016, Madrid, Spain.<\/li>\n<li>Mahsa Pourvali, Feng Gu, Kaile Liang, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Nasir Ghani, \u201d<strong><em>Progressive Recovery of Virtual Infrastructure Services in Optical Cloud Networks After Large Disasters<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC), 20-24 March, 2016, Anaheim, California, USA.<\/li>\n<li>Maurice Khabbaz, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Chadi Assi, and Long Qu, \u201c<strong><em>Prioritizing Deadline-Constrained Data Flows In Cloud Datacenter Networks<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 31st ACM\/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2016), 4-8 April, 2016, Pisa, Italy.<\/li>\n<li>Abdulaziz M. Ghaleb, Tarek Khalifa, Sara Ayoubi, and <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Surviving Link Failures in Multicast VN Embedded Applications<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE\/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2016), 25-29 April, 2016, Istanbul, Turkey.<\/li>\n<li>Long Qu, Chadi Assi, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Network Function Virtualization Scheduling with Transmission Delay Optimization<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE\/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2016), 25-29 April, 2016, Istanbul, Turkey.<\/li>\n<li>Mahsa Pourvali, Kaile Liang, Feng Gu, Hao Bai, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Samee Khan, and Nasir Ghani, \u201c<em><strong>Progressive Recovery For Network Virtualization After Large-Scale Disasters<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d 2016 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, Optical and Grid Networking (ICNC 2016), 15-18 February, 2016, Kauai, Hawaii, USA.<\/li>\n<li>Mahsa Pourvali, Kaile Liang, Feng Gu, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, Samee U. Khan and Nasir Ghani, \u201c<strong><em>Progressive Recovery for Cloud-Based Infrastructure Services<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CLOUDNET&#8217;15), Pages 223-225, 5-7 October 2015, Niagara Falls, Canada.<\/li>\n<li>H. Bai, F. Gu, J. Crichigno, S. Khan, N. Ghani, <strong>K. Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Virtual Network Advance Reservation<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CLOUDNET&#8217;15), Pages 84-86, 5-7 October 2015, Niagara Falls, Canada.<\/li>\n<li>Ramy Hussein, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, and Ayman H. El-Hag, \u201c<strong><em>Acoustic Partial Discharge Signal Denoising using Power Spectral Subtraction<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 2015 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP), Pages 330-333, 18-21 October 2015, Ann Arbor Miami, USA.<\/li>\n<li>H. Bai, F. Gu, <strong>K. Shaban<\/strong>, J. Crichigno, S. Khan, and N. Ghani, \u201c<em><strong>Flexible Advance Reservation Models for Virtual Network Scheduling<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d IEEE International Workshop on Cloud-based Networks and Applications (IEEE CloudNA 2015), Pages 651-656, 26-29 October 2015, Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA.<\/li>\n<li>Mohamed Ahmed, Mohamed Elkhatib, Magdy Salama, and <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Transformer Health Index Estimation Using Orthogonal Wavelet Network<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 2015 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC2015), Pages 120-124, October 26 &#8211; 28, 2015, London, Ontario, Canada.<\/li>\n<li>Mohamed Elkhatib, Mohamed Ahmed, Ramadan Elshatshat, Magdy Salama, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Autonomous Decentralized Distribution System Restoration Algorithm<\/em><\/strong>\u201d, International Symposium on Smart Electric Distribution Systems and Technologies (EDST) CIGRE SC C6 Colloquium, September 8 &#8211; 11, 2015, Vienna, Austria.<\/li>\n<li>Gilbert Badaro, Ramy Baly, Rana Akel, Linda Fayad, Jeffrey Khairallah, Hazem Hajj, Wassim El-Hajj, and\u00a0<strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>,\u00a0\u201c<strong><em>A Light Lexicon-based Mobile Application for Sentiment Mining of Arabic Tweets<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (WANLP 2015), July 30, 2015, Beijing, China.<\/li>\n<li>Ahmad Al Sallab, Hazem Hajj, Gilbert Badaro, Ramy Baly, Wassim El Hajj, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<em><strong>Deep Learning Models for Sentiment Analysis in Arabic<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (WANLP 2015), Pages 9-17, July 26-31, 2015, Beijing, China.<\/li>\n<li>Mohamed Ahmed, Mohamed El-Khatib, Magdy Salama, Ramadan El-Shatshat, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Distribution system restoration based on cooperative multi-agent approach<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 2015 International Symposium on Smart Electric Distribution Systems and Technologies (EDST 2015), Pages 42-46, 8-11 September, 2015, Vienna, Austria.<\/li>\n<li>Sara Ayoubi, Yiheng Chen, Chadi Assi, Tarek Khalifa, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Multicast Tree Repair and Maintenance in the Cloud<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2015), Pages 829-835, June 27 &#8211; July 2, 2015, New York, USA.<\/li>\n<li>Ramy Hussein, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, Ayman El-Hag, \u201c<strong><em>Histogram-based Thresholding in Discrete Wavelet Transform for Partial Discharge Signal Denoising<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 2nd International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications (ICCSPA&#8217;15), Pages 1-5, 17-19 February, 2015, Sharjah, UAE.<\/li>\n<li>Abdul-Rahim Ahmad, Imran A. Tasadduq, M. H. Imam, and <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Automated Knowledge Discovery in Facility Layout Planning<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 24th International Business Information Management Conference (24th IBIMA), 6-7 November 2014, Milan, Italy.<\/li>\n<li>Azade Nazi, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Vagelis Hristidis, Nan Zhang, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Gautam Das, \u201c<strong><em>Query Hidden Attributes in Social Networks<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d\u00a02014 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop (ICDMW), Pages 886 \u2013 891, 14 December, 2014, Shenzhen, China.<\/li>\n<li>Gilbert Badaro, Hazem Hajj, Ali Haddad, Wassim El-Hajj, and <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Recommender Systems Using Harmonic Analysis<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d\u00a02014 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop (ICDMW), Pages 1004 \u2013 1011, 14 December, 2014, Shenzhen, China.<\/li>\n<li>Gilbert Badaro, Ramy Baly, Hazem Hajj, Nizar Habash, Wassim El-hajj, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>An Efficient Model For Sentiment Classification Of Arabic Tweets On Mobiles<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference, November 13, 2014, Doha, Qatar.<\/li>\n<li>Ramy Baly, Gilbert Badaro, Hazem Hajj, Nizar Habash, Wassim El Hajj, and <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Semantic Model Representation for Human\u2019s Pre-conceived Notions in Arabic Text with Applications to Sentiment Mining<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference, November 13, 2014, Doha, Qatar.<\/li>\n<li>Mahsa Pourvali, Hao Bai, Feng Gu, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, Mahshid Rahnamay-Naeini, Jorge Crichigno, Majeed Hayat, Samee U. Khan, and Nasir Ghani, \u201c<strong><em>Virtual Network Mapping for Cloud Services Under Probabilistic Regional Failures<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The Third IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (IEEE CloudNet 2014), Pages 407 &#8211; 412, October 8-10, 2014, Luxembourg.<\/li>\n<li>Zhuoyao Wang, Majeed M Hayat, Nasir Ghani, and <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>A probabilistic multi-tenant model for virtual machine allocation in cloud systems<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The Third IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (IEEE CloudNet 2014), Pages 339 &#8211; 343, October 8-10, 2014, Luxembourg.<\/li>\n<li>Sara Keretna , Chee Peng Lim, Doug Creighton, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<em><strong>Classification Ensemble to Improve Medical Named Entity Recognition<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d The 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2014), Pages 2630 &#8211; 3636, October 5-8, 2014, San Diego, CA, USA.<\/li>\n<li>Mohsen Bakhshi Ashtiani, S. Mohammad Shahrtash, Ayman H. El-Hag, and <strong>Khaled B. Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Comparison between Different De-noising Techniques for Acoustic Partial Discharge Signals<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis (CMD2014), September 21-25, 2014, Jeju Island, Korea.<\/li>\n<li>Gilbert Badaro, Hazem Hajj, Ali Haddad, Wassim El-Hajj, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>A Multiresolution Approach to Recommender Systems<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 8th Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis for Business, Consumer and Social Insights (SNA-KDD 2014), in the Workshop Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2014), August 24-27, 2014, New York, NY, USA. (<u><strong>accepted<\/strong><\/u>)<\/li>\n<li>Sara Ayoubi, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Chadi Assi, \u201c<strong><em>Multicast Virtual Network Embedding in Cloud Data Centers with End Delay and Delay Variation Constraints<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2014), Pages 482 &#8211; 489, June 27 &#8211; July 2, 2014, Alaska, USA.<\/li>\n<li>Kamel Benhmed, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, Ayman El-Hag, \u201c<strong><em>Cost Effective Assessment of Transformers Using Machine Learning Approach<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 2014 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference &#8211; Asia (ISGT ASIA) &#8211; Equipment and its Technologies in Power System, Pages 328 &#8211; 332, 20 \u2013 23 May, 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<\/li>\n<li>Sara Ayoubi, Samir Sebbah, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Chadi Assi, \u201c<strong><em>Traffic Engineering in Cloud Data Centers: A Column Generation Approach<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Special Track on Data-centric Cloud and Network Management at IEEE\/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2014), Pages 1 &#8211; 5, 5-9 May 2014, Krakow, Poland.<\/li>\n<li>Mustafa Harbaji, Ayman El-Hag, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Accurate Partial Discharge Classification from Acoustic Emission Signals<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d the International Conference on Electric Power and Energy Conversion Systems (EPECS&#8217;13), Pages 1-4, October 2-4, 2013, Istanbul, Turkey.<\/li>\n<li>Abduljalil Mohamed, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Amr Mohamed, \u201c<strong><em>Bayesian Network based-Heuristic for Energy Aware EEG Signal Classification<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d the 2013 International Conference on Brain &amp; Health Informatics (BHI&#8217;13), October 29-31, 2013, Maebashi Terrsa, Chiyodamachi, Maebashi-city, Gunma, Japan.\u00a0Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8211, Pages 246-255, 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Zeinab Jahed, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Hamid Reza Tizhoosh, \u201c<strong><em>Multi-Stage Intra-Patient Template Matching for Prostate Detection in MR Volumes<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 35th Annual International IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS\u201913) Conference, 3-7 July 2013, Osaka, Japan.<\/li>\n<li>Feng Gu, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Nasir Ghani, Majeed Hayat, Chadi Assi, \u201c<strong><em>Regional Failure Survivability for Cloud Networking Services Using Post Fault Restoration<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d 8th IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (IEEE SoSE2013), 2-6 June 2013, Maui, Hawaii, USA.<\/li>\n<li>Ramy Hussein, Amr Mohamed, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, Abduljalil Mohamed, \u201c<strong><em>EEG Feature Extraction and Selection Techniques for Epileptic Detection: A Comparative Study<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d IEEE Symposium on Computer and Informatics (ISCI 2013), Langkawi, Malaysia, 7 &#8211; 9 April, 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Abduljalil Mohamed, <strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong>, and Amr Mohamed, \u201c<strong><em>Effective Seizure Detection through the Fusion of Single-Feature Enhanced-k-NN Classifiers of EEG Signals<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The 4th IEEE Biosignals and Biorobotics conference (ISSNIP), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 18-20, 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Abduljalil Mohamed, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, and Amr Mohamed, \u201c<strong><em>Evidence Theory-based Approach for Epileptic Seizure Detection<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d The Third Workshop on Biological Data Mining and its Applications in Healthcare (BioDM), in the Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (IEEE ICDMW 2012), Brussels, Belgium, pages 79 &#8211; 85, December 10, 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Abdullah Kadri, <strong>Khaled Shaban<\/strong>, Elias Yaacoub and Adnan Abu-Dayya, \u201c<strong><em>Air Quality Monitoring and Prediction System using Machine-to-Machine Platform<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d the 19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2012), Doha, Qatar, November 12-15, 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 7666, Part IV, pages 508-517, 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Refat Atef Ghunem, <em><strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong><\/em>, Ayman Hassan El-Hag, and Khaled Assaleh, &#8220;<strong>Towards Cost-effective Maintenance of Power Transformer by Accuretely Predicting its Insulation Condition<\/strong>,&#8221; 2012\u00a0IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference (IEEE EPEC12),\u00a0London, Ontario, Canada, pages 236-241, October 10-12, 2012.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/em><\/strong>, and Mahmoud Abdulwahed, &#8220;<strong>Research-based Learning in Computing Courses for Senior Engineering Students<\/strong>,&#8221; The IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (IEEE TALE 2012), Hong Kong, pages H4A-16 &#8211; H4A-22, August 20-23, 2012. (<strong>Best Paper Award<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Hamada R. H. Al-Absi, Brahim B. Samir, <em><strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong><\/em>, and Suziah Bt. Sulaiman, \u201c<strong>Computer Aided Diagnosis System based on Machine Learning Techniques for Lung Cancer<\/strong>,\u201d International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCIS2012), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 12-14, 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Feng Xu, Kaile Liang, <strong><em>Khaled Shaban<\/em><\/strong>, Min Peng, Samee Khan, and Nasir Ghani, \u201c<strong>Diverse Lightpath Protection against Correlated and Probabilistic Failures in Multi-Domain Optical Networks<\/strong>,\u201d 2012 IEEE Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (IEEE OFC\/NFOEC2012), Los Angeles, California, March 4-8, 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Noora Mohammed Al-Naimi, <em><strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong><\/em>, \u201c<strong>&#8220;<\/strong><strong>The 100 Most Influential Persons in History&#8221;: A Data Mining Perspective<\/strong>,\u201d The Fourth Workshop on Data Mining Case Studies and Practice Prize (DMCS 2011) at IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2011), pages 719-724, Vancouver, Canada, December 11-14, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Hamada R. H. Al-Absi, Azween Abdullah, Mahamat Issa Hassan,\u00a0<em><strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong><\/em>, \u201c<strong>Hybrid System for Disease Diagnosis System based on Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, and Genetic Algorithms<\/strong>,\u201d The International Conference on Informatics Engineering and Information Science (ICIEIS2011), Part II, Communication in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) Series of Springer LNCS, CCIS 252, pages 128-139, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 14-16 November 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Zeyad Ali, Mohamed Samaka, and <strong><em>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/em><\/strong>, \u201c<strong>A Virtual Problem Based Learning Environment in Moodle<\/strong>,\u201d 5th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED2011), Valencia, Spain, pages 2421-2428, 7-9 March, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Tamer Khattab, Amr Mohamed, <em><strong>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/strong><\/em>, Basim Uthman, Leopold Streletz, and Adnan Abu-Dayya, \u201c<strong>Detection and Classification of Human Movement (DC-MOVE)<\/strong>,\u201d Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum, page 44, Doha, Qatar, 12-13 December, 2010.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/em><\/strong>, Abdunnaser Younes, Robert Lam, Michael Allison, and Shajeehan Kathirgamanathan, \u201c<strong>Credit Default Swap Pricing using Artificial Neural Networks<\/strong>\u201d, IEEE 2010 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2010), pages 1467-1474, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July, 2010.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/em><\/strong>, Joannes Chan, and Raymond Szeto, \u201c<strong>Interest-Determining Web Browser<\/strong>\u201d, 10th\u00a0 Industrial Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010), Berlin, Germany, 12-14 July, 2010. P. Perner (Ed.): ICDM 2010, LNAI 6171, pp. 518-528. Springer, Heidelberg 2010.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Khaled Bashir Shaban<\/em><\/strong>, Abdunnaser Younes, Nathan Good, Mohammed Iqbal, and Richard Lourenco, \u201c<strong>A Hybridized Genetic Algorithm for Cost Estimation in Bridge Maintenance Systems<\/strong>\u201d, 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2010), Volume 2, pages 428-433, Funchal-Madeira, Portugal, 8-12 June, 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Mohamed Soliman, and <strong><em>Khaled Shaban<\/em><\/strong>, \u201c<strong>Evaluation of Adaptation for Pedagogical Objectives in E-Learning Systems<\/strong>\u201d,<em> In the Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning (IMCL2009)<\/em> , pages 328-331, Amman, Jordan, April 22-24, 2009.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Khaled Shaban<\/em><\/strong>, Ayman El-Hag, and Andrei Matveev, \u201c<strong>Predicting Transformers Oil Parameters<\/strong>\u201d, <em>Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC)<\/em>, Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada, June 1-3, 2009.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Khaled Shaban<\/em><\/strong>, Katelyn Poyntz, Chris Pellett, and Kirk Steele, \u201c<strong>Estimating Home Construction Costs Using Neural Networks<\/strong>\u201d, <em>Third International Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO&#8217;09)<\/em>, Track: Artificial Intelligence, Neural Network &amp; 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