From: Farzin Deravi <eederavi@pyr.swan.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: ITA'92 Provisional Programme - Please Publicise
Date: 19 Nov 1992 00:42:44 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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                              Second Conference on 
                  Information Technology and its Applications

                              19-20 December 1992

                                     ITA'92

                           Markfield Conference Centre
                                  Leicester, UK


                                   sponsored by

                         Association of Muslim Researchers
                          Information Technology Society



                          Provisional Conference Programme

1st Day 19/12/92

Registration & Coffee						10:30
Welcome Address				K Shaker Jomaa		10:55

* Improving Schedule Performance Using Quality Cost Information & Risk Analysis
  A Oztas & H AbdulRahman, UMIST.
* Scheduling Techniques for Multiprocessors
  M Laghari & F Deravi, University of Wales, Swansea.
* Managing Computer Memory / Dynamic Strategies
  S E Abdullahi, QMW, University of London.
* Transputer Based Implementation of a Failure Detection & Identification
  Algorithms, F Caliskan, QMW, University of London.

* Front End Bilingual Dictionary for Arabic/English
  A Feddag & S Jaffri, Manchester University.
* Role of Relational Databases in the Teaching Medium using Dynamic English
  to Arabic Translation, M Khandwalla & M Ranic, Coventry University.

WORKSHOP: Technology Transfer		C Kharpoutly

* Hybrid Simulated Annealing / Tabu Search for the Capacitated p-media Problem
  I Othman, University of Kent.
* Computational Techniques for Quranic Studies
  A K Barkatulla, Islamic Computer Centre

POSTER SESSION

WORKSHOP: IT Society, Future Outlook	K Shaker Jomaa

KEYNOTE SPEECH	Muslim Contributions to IT	Professor Saleem Al-Hassani


2nd Day 20/12/92

* A Computer Vision System for Tribology
  M S Laghari, University of Wales, Swansea.
* Object Detection Using Computer Vision
  A Abdulmawla, Bristol University.
* Visual Comparison & Experimental Evaluation of Spatial Gray Level 
  Dependence Matrices, A Muhamad, University of Wales, Swansea.

POSTER SESSION

* Optical Implementation of Hopfield Network using the Matched Filter
  Formalism Tool, A H Tawij, D R Selviah and J E Midwinter, UCL,
  University of London.
 
WORKSHOP Computer Mediated Group Communications		F Deravi

* Measures of Spectral Efficiency in Cellular and Mobile Radio Systems
  H Hammuda, De Montfort University.
* Block Based Fractal Image Compression Applied to Teletext Image
  data Broadcasting, M Ali & T G Clarkson, King's College, Univerity of
  London.

* Computers in Secondary Education: An Organizational Model for
  Developing Countries, R Yildiz, Newcastle University.
* A Modular Approach to Research Leading to a PhD, Does it Exist?
  H Hammuda, De Montfort University.

CLOSE								15:20


For registration forms and further information please contact:

Dr Khaled Shaker Jomaa
ITA'92, 76 Falcon Drive, Patchway, Bristol BS12 5RA
Tel: 0272-364733
Tel: 0272-761487