Advances on Smart and Soft Computing

Faisal Saeed has been an Assistant Professor at the Information Systems Department, Taibah University, KSA, since 2017. Previously, he worked as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Information Systems at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He holds a B.Sc. in Computers (Information Technology) from Cairo University, Egypt; and an M.Sc. in Information Technology Management and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UTM. His research interests include data mining, information retrieval and machine learning. Tawfik Al-Hadhrami is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, UK. He holds a B.Sc. in Control and Computer Engineering from the University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq; and an M.Sc. in Information Technology, Applied Systems from the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. Since 2009, he has been a Ph.D. student researcher at the University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, UK. His research interests include wireless and mobile networks and video networking, Internet of Things (IoT), 5G/6G, and Internet protocol networks and applications. Fathey Mohammed received his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Isfahan University, Iran, in 2003; his M.Sc. in Information Technology Engineering from the Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran; and his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He is currently a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). His research interests include cloud computing, technology innovation adoption, information systems, project management, e-government and e-business. Errais Mohammed is an Assistant Professor at the Computers Science Department at the Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco. He received his Ph.D. in Informatics from Hassan II University, Mohammedia, Morocco, in 2014. His research interests include networking, management networks and virtualization. He has published several research papers and participated in various local/international conferences.