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Profiles of Doctorate Dissertations
Research Relevance and Potential Impact
The research undertaken by the student investigates timely issues which are relevant to the growing
expansion of social structures and related explosion of data steams. The application domain addressed by
this research has important impacts to the development of professional careers among higher education
graduates. Both theoretical and practical results have been derived and published in international
conferences and journals.
Relevant Publications
• AbuKhousa, E., & Atif, Y. (2016). Virtual Social Spaces for Practice and Experience Sharing. In State-of-
the-Art and Future Directions of Smart Learning (pp. 409-414). Springer Singapore.
• AbuKhousa, E., Atif, Y., & Masud, M. (2015). A social learning analytics approach to cognitive
apprenticeship. Smart Learning Environments, 2(1), 1-23.
• AbuKhousa, E. A., & Atif, Y. (2014). A Learning Analytics Approach to Career Readi- ness Development in
Higher Education. In Advances in Web-Based Learning–ICWL 2014 (pp. 133-141). Springer International
Publishing.
• AbuKhousa, E. & Atif, Y. (2014). Big Learning Data Analytics to Support Career Readiness in Higher
Education.UAE Forum on Information and Communication Technology 2014 (ICTF2014). Abu-Dhabi, UAE.
• Atif, Y., Abu Khousa, E., Al Awar, K., Alsayari, N. & Mathew, S. (2014). A Portal Support to Cognitive
Apprenticeship,. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2014, Athens,
Greece.
• AbuKhousa, E., Al-Jaroodi, J., Lazarova-Molnar, S., & Mohamed, N. (2014). Simula- tion and Modeling
Efforts to Support Decision Making in Healthcare Supply Chain Management. The Scientific World Journal,
2014.
• Bouktif, S., Hanna, E. M., Zaki, N., & Khousa, E. A. (2014). Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for
Interpretable Bayesian Classifiers Combination: Application to Medical Predictions. PloS one, 9(2), e86456.
• AbuKhousa, E., Mohamed, N., & Al-Jaroodi, J. (2012). e-Health cloud: opportunities and challenges.
Future Internet, 4(3), 621-645.