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Saad Adnan Abed Lateef (Professor)

PhD in Information Technology
Faculty Member
Computer Science - Computer Sciences and IT
saad.adnan@uoanbar.edu.iq


Biography

Saad Adnan Abed received a B.Sc. degree in computer science from the University of Baghdad, Iraq in 2012. He obtained an M.Sc. degree in information technology from the National University of Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia in 2015, and a Ph.D. degree in information technology from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia in 2021. Currently, he serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Sciences and Information Technology. His research interests encompass evolutionary and local search algorithms applied to graph-based problems, as well as word sense disambiguation.

You may find Saad's CV here.
 

Publication

  1. Bassel, A., Abed, S. A., Abdullah, S., Nordin, M. J., & Turky, A. (2024). An improved Glowworm Swarm Optimization based on Various Mutation Operators. IEEE Access.
  2. Abed, S. A., Rais, H. M., Watada, J., & Sabar, N. R. (2022). A hybrid local search algorithm for minimum dominating set problems. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence114, 105053.
  3. Hassan, F., Rahim, L. A., Mahmood, A. K., & Abed, S. A. (2022). A Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization-Based Wavelet Threshold Denoising Algorithm for Acoustic Emission Signals. Symmetry14(6), 1253.
  4. Alazzawi, A. K., Rais, H. M., Basri, S., Alsariera, Y. A., Imam, A. A., Abed, S. A., ... & Kumar, G. (2022, November). Recent t-way Test Generation Strategies Based on Optimization Algorithms: An Orchestrated Survey. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Smart Community: AISC 2020, 17–18 December, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia (pp. 1055-1060). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
  5. Al-Saffar, A., Awang, S., Al-Saiagh, W., Al-Khaleefa, A. S., & Abed, S. A. (2021). A Sequential Handwriting Recognition Model Based on a Dynamically Configurable CRNN. Sensors21(21), 7306.
  6. Hamad, A. H., Mahmood, A. A., Abed, S. A., & Ying, X. (2021). Semantic relatedness maximisation for word sense disambiguation using a hybrid firefly algorithm. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems41(6), 7047-7061.
  7. Abed, S. A., & Rais, H. M. (2020). Solving the minimum dominating set problem of partitioned graphs using a hybrid bat algorithm. In Emerging Trends in Intelligent Computing and Informatics: Data Science, Intelligent Information Systems and Smart Computing 4 (pp. 386-395). Springer International Publishing.
  8. Rais, H. M., Abed, S. A., & Watada, J. (2019). Computational comparison of major proposed methods for graph partitioning problem. Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics23(1), 5-17.
  9. Tareq, M., Abed, S. A., & Sundararajan, E. A. (2019). Artificial bee colony for minimizing the energy consumption in mobile ad hoc network. Advances on Computational Intelligence in Energy: The Applications of Nature-Inspired Metaheuristic Algorithms in Energy, 21-38.
  10. Abed, S. A., & Rais, H. M. (2017). Hybrid bat algorithm for minimum dominating set problem. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems33(4), 2329-2339.
  11.  Abed, S. A., Tiun, S., & Omar, N. (2016). Word sense disambiguation in evolutionary manner. Connection Science28(3), 226-241.
  12. Abed, S. A., Tiun, S., & Omar, N. (2015). Harmony search algorithm for word sense disambiguation. PloS one10(9), e0136614.

Lectures


No. Subjects Lectures Stage File Video
1 Database Management Systems Relational model Second
2 Database Management Systems View of data Second
3 Database Management Systems Database Design Using the E-R Model Second

Academic certificates

Degree

University

Faculty

PhD

Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP)

Faculty of Science and Information Technology

MSc

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)

Fakulti Teknologi dan Sains Maklumat

BSc

University of Baghdad

College of science

Supervision

Supervising undergraduate students. 

Other

Subject

University

Year

Object oriented programming

University of Anbar

2024-2025

Programming with C++ 

University of Anbar

2023-2024

Database and management systems

University of Anbar

2023-2024

Smart System modeling

Alkitab University

2022-2023

Object oriented programming

Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 

2018-2019

Data structure

Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 

2017-2018

Artificial intelligence

Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 

2016-2017