RESEARCH INTEREST
1. Virtual reality2. Cyber Therapy
3. Rehab Engineering
4. Machine learning
5. Operating systems
RESEARCH PAPERS
5. تخفيف الآم الحروق باستخدام الواقع الافتراضي – المؤتمر الهندسي السعودي السابع – الرياض – 22/25/1428هـ 2 – 5 /12/2007م6. محاربة سرطان الثدي باستخدام تقنيات العلاج التصويري والواقع الافتراضي – المؤتمر الهندسي السعودي السابع – الرياض 22-25/1428هـ 2-5/12/2007م
7. W. Alhalab, M. Kubat, M Tapia “An Algorithm to Numerically Evaluate the Efficiency of a Search Engine Rank” Proceedings of The 7th International Business Information Management Association Conference, Brescia, Italy; December 14 - 16, 2006,
8. W. Alhalab, M. Kubat, M Tapia, “Search Engine Personalization Tool Using Linear Vector Algorithm” In the Proceedings of the Fourth Saudi Technical Conference, Riyadh, 2-6/12/2006
9. W. Alhalabi, S Aseeri, “The Impact of Virtual Reality and Computer Game on Imagery Therapy for Cancer Patients” In the Proceedings of the Seventh Saudi Engineering Conference, Riyadh, 2-5/12/2007
10. W. Alhalab, M. Kubat, M Tapia “Time Spent on a Web Page is Sufficient to Infer a User's Interest” in the Proceedings of the Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications 2007 conference in Chamonix, France 14-16/3/2007
11. W. Alhalab, M. Kubat, M Tapia “A Fully Automated Recommender System using Collaborative Filters” In the Proceedings of the Communications, Internet, and Information Technology conference in Banff, Albert, 2-4/7/2007
12. W. Alhalab, M. Kubat, M Tapia “A Tool to Personalizing the Ranking of the Documents Returned by an Internet Search Engine” journal of Convergence Information Technology, 2007; 3 (2); page(s) 6-10. [Link]
13. W. Alhalab, M. Kubat, M Tapia “Search Engine Ranking Efficiency Evaluation Tool” Inroads SIGCSE Bulletin – Computer Science Education, 2007; 39 (2); page(s) 97-101.
14. W. Alhalabi, R Al-meleakm, “Effect of Virtual Reality on Breast Cancer Patients” In the Proceedings of the Seventh Saudi Engineering Conference, Riyadh, 2-5/12/2007
15. F.Y. Al-Zamzami and W. Alhalabi, “Using Guided Imagery as a Distraction Method during Dental Procedures” In the Proceedings of the Modeling and Simulation conference in Quebec City, Canada 26-28/5/2008 [Link]
16. W.S. Al-Halabi, S.A. Aseeri, R.A. Almeleak, and H.T. Al-Hashmie “Effect of Virtual Reality on Breast Cancer Patients” In the Proceedings of the Modeling and Simulation conference in Quebec City, Canada 26-28/5/2008
17. W.S. Al-Halabi, A. Alsalmi, “The Impact of Imagery Therapy on Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatments” In the Proceedings of International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control ~MIC 2009~ February 16 – 18, 2009, Innsbruck, Austria
18. W. S. Al-Halabi, A. Alsubhi, A. Alrajhi, M. Alqurashi, “Using Virtual Reality to Cure Paralysis Caused by Brain Stroke” In the proceedings of the 3rd International conference on disability & rehabilitation, March 22-26, 2009, Riyadh, KSA
19. W. S. Al-Halabi, A. Alsubhi Use of Computer Generated Environments to Cure Post-Stroke Paralysis” Accepted for publishing in International Conference on Modeling and Simulation July 6 – 8, 2009, Banff, Alberta, Canada
20. W. Alhalabi and M. Al-Qurashi “Imagery Therapy for Pain Control Using Computer Generated Virtual Reality” Frontiers in Neuroengineering, Annual CyberTherapy and CyberPsychology 2009 conference. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.14.2009.06.004
21. W. Alhalabi, M. Kubat, M Tapia “Induction-Based Approach to Personalized Search Engines Introducing The Search Engines Ranking Efficiency Evaluation Tool [SEREET]” VDM Verlag (January 6, 2009), ISBN-10: 3639109449
22. W. S. Al-Halabi, A. Alsubhi Use of Computer Generated Environments to Cure Post-Stroke Paralysis” Accepted for publishing in International Conference on Modeling and Simulation July 6 – 8, 2009, Banff, Alberta, Canada
23. W. Alhalabi, M. Kubat, M Tapia “A Mathematical Formula for the Search Engine Ranking Efficiency Evaluation Tool S.E.R.E.E.T” Accepted for publishing International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control November 4 – 6, 2009, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
24. W. Alhalabi and M. Al-Qurashi “Imagery Therapy for Pain Control Using Computer Generated Virtual Reality” Frontiers in Neuroengineering, Annual CyberTherapy and CyberPsychology 2009 conference. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.14.2009.06.004
25. W. Alhalabi, M. Alqurashi, M. Basuliman “A Leap toward Optimization: Should Test Centers at Educational Institutions be Centralized or should it Remain Decentralized?” Proceedings of "eLearning and Software for Education," National Defense University, Romania, 2012 [Link]
26. Wadee Alhalabi “The Impact of Imagery Therapy on Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients” International Journal of Computer Science, Issues, Vol. 9, Issue 5, No 3, September 2012 [Link]
27. Khan, M.A.U, Alhalabi, W. “Robust multi-scale orientation estimation: Spatial domain Vs Fourier domain” in the proceedings of Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications (ICCSPA), 2013 1st International Conference on Date of Conference: 12-14 Feb. 2013, Page(s): 1 – 6, Print ISBN: 978-1-4673-2820-3, Sharjah [Link]
28. Wadee Alhalabi, Reem Ahmed A. Almasoudi “A Mechanism using the Electronic Signature to Verify the Power of Attorney and the Requested Activity,” International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication IJRITCC, July 2013, V. 1, No. 7, 624-627 [Link]
29. Wadee S Alhalabi and Sara H. Ba Abdullah “Development of a Thermo-Feedback Vision Assistive System,” The 15th IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications (CA 2013), August 26 – 28, 2013, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA [Link}
30. Wadee Alhalabi, “Virtual Reality Helps Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients,” Oriental Journal of Computer Science & Technology, 5 December 2012, V5, N2, 169-179 [Link]
31. Muhammad Imran, Wadee Alhalabi, "Improving the Operating System Resource Management by Processes Simulation" International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 5, Issue 2, February-2014 1404 ISSN 2229-5518, IJSER © 2014, [Link]
32. M. Haghighat, M. Abdel-Mottaleb, W. Alhalabi “Computationally Efficient Statistical Face Model in Feature Space.” Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management (CIBIM), IEEE Orlando, FL. Published in 2014 Conference [Link]
33. Wadee Alhalabi, Hiba Shahid, John Reif, “Real-time operating system (RTOS) with application on play models,” International journal of computer engineering research published, Vol.5(2), pp. 9-16 , October 2014 [Link]
34. M. Haghighat, M. Abdel-Mottaleb, W. Alhalabi “Discriminant Correlation Analysis: Real-Time Feature Level Fusion for Multimodal Biometric Recognition” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 2015 Impact Factor: 2.408 [Link]
35. John H. Reif, Wadee Alhalabi, "Solar-Thermal Powered Desalination: Its Significant Challenges and Potential" Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 48, August 2015, Pages 152–165, Impact Factor: 6.798 [Link]
36. Miltiadis D. Lytras, Hassan I. Mathkour , Hassan Abdalla, Wadee Alhalabi, Cornelio Yanez-Marquez, Sean Wolfgand Matsui Siqueira, “An emerging – Social and emerging computing enabled philosophical paradigm for collaborative learning systems: Toward high effective next generation learning systems for the knowledge society,” Computers in Human Behavior Volume 51, Part B, October 2015, Pages 557–561, Impact Factor: 2.694 [Link]
37. Wadee Alhalabi, John Reif, Zeineb Elsheikh, Heba Felimban, Majda Fallata, Khalid Thabit, Abdullah Abusorrah, “The co-learning in the design, simulation and optimization of a solar concentrating system,” Computers in Human Behavior Volume 51, Part B, October 2015, Pages 857–866, Impact Factor: 2.880 [Link]
38. Hind Alsharif, Wadee Alhalabi, Miroslav Kubat, “Induction From Multi-label Examples” Life Science Journal 2014;11(10) [Link] 495
39. Min-Chun Yu, Yen-Chun Jim Wu, Wadee Alhalabi, Hao-Yun Kao, Wen-Hsiung Wu, “ResearchGate: An effective altmetric indicator for active researchers,” Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 55, Part B, Pages 1001-1006 February 2016 Impact Factor: 2.694 [Link]
40. Wadee Alhalabi, Omar Kitanneh, Amira Alharbi, Zain Balfakih, Akila Sarirete, “Efficient solution for finding Hamilton cycles in undirected graphs,” SpringerPlus (2016) 5:1192 [Link]
41. M. Haghighat, M. Abdel-Mottaleb, W. Alhalabi “Fully automatic face normalization and single sample face recognition in unconstrained environments” Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 47, Pages 23–34, 1 April 2016, Impact Factor: 2.240 [Link]
42. Wadee Alhalabi; Miguel Torres; Eduardo Loza; Giovanni Guzman; Rolando Quintero; Marco Moreno-Ibarra “Qualitative spatial reasoning methodology to determine the particular domain of a set of geographic objects” Computers in Human Behavior Volume 59, June 2016, Pages 115–133 June 2016 Impact Factor: 2.694 [Link]
43. M. Haghighat, M. Abdel-Mottaleb, W. Alhalabi “Discriminant Correlation Analysis for Feature Level Fusion with Application to Multimodal Biometrics” 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016) Shanghai, China March 20-25, 2016, IEEE ICASSP Conference [Link]
44. Wadee Alhalabi, Elena Niculina Dragoi, Areej Alsaeedi “Random Number Generator Influence on Differential Search Performance”, The 6th IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Simulation and Identification (MSI 2016) August 16 – 18, 2016, Campinas, Brazil [Link]
45. Wadee Alhalabi, Elena Niculina Dragoi, “Influence of randomization strategies and problem characteristics on the performance of differential search algorithm. I. Synthetic case studies” Computational Optimization and Applications - SUBMITTED
46. Robert E. Wendrich, Kris-Howard Chambers, Hunter G. Hoffman, Olaf Grevenstuk Wadee Alhalabi “Hybrid Design Tools in a Social Virtual Reality Using Networked Oculus Rift: A Feasibility Study in Remote Real-time Interaction,” Proceedings of the International Design Engineering Technical Conference & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC CIE, Aug 21-24, 2016, Charlotte, NC, USA [Link]
47. J Gomez, H Hoffman, M Gonzalez1, D Patterson, Azucena García Palacios, María V. Navarro Haro , W Alhalabi, M Rosenberg, L Rosenberg, S Bistricky, M Linehan, W Meyer “The use of Virtual Reality with Oculus Rift to facilitate Dialectical Behavior Therapy Observing Sounds and Visuals Mindfulness Skills Training Exercises for a Hispanic Patient with Severe Burns: a Case Study. International Society for Burn Injuries (ISBI) Congress, Aug 29 - Sep 01, 2016, Miami, Florida [Link]
48. Wadee S. Alhalabi, " Virtual Reality systems enhance students’ achievements in engineering education", Behaviour and Information Technology,Volume 35, 2016 - Issue 11 [Link] [Download]