Current Designation : Professor and Assistant Dean for the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences-Amman Campus

NYIT Faculty Member Since : September 2007
 

Qualifications :

• Ph.D. in Computer Engineering Wayne State University, 1993 Detroit, Michigan.

• MS in Computer Engineering, 1989 North Carolina A&T State University.

• BS in Electrical Engineering, 1988 University of Jordan

Publications :

• R. A. Abu Zitar and M. H. Hassoun, " Neurocontrollers Trained with Rule Extracted by a Genetic Assisted Reinforcement Learning System," IEEE transactions on Neural Networks.Vol 6. No. 4. July 1995. pp 859-879.IEEE Press Publishing.

• R. A. Abu Zitar, and Al-Fahed Nuseirat, A.M. “Neural Network   Approach to the Frictionless Grasping Problem,   J. of Intelligent and Robotic System” 29:27-45, 2000. Springer/Kluwer Publishing.

• R. Abu Zitar and A. M. Al-Fahed Nuseirat,” Performance Evaluationof Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Programming in  Optimization and Machine Learning,”   Cybernetics and Systems: International Journal. Vol 33 (1), April, 2002. Taylor and Francis Publishing.

• R. Abu Zitar and A. M. Al-Fahed Nuseirat,” A Theoretical Approach of an  Intelligent Robot Gripper to Grasp Polygon Shaped  Object  International Journal . of   Intelligent and Robotic Systems 31: 397-422, 2001. Springer/Kluwer Publishing.

• M. Al-Fahed Nuseirat and R. Abu Zitar,” A Neural Network Approach  to Firm Grip in the Presence of Small Slips,”International Journal of Robotic Systems, 18(6), 305-315 (2001). Addison Wiley Publishing.

• F. Nuseirat and R. Abu Zitar, “ Trajectory Path Planning using Hybrid Reinforcement and Back Propagation Through Time Training,” International  Journal of Cybernetics and Systems, Vol. 34, No.8, Dec 1, 2003 Tayand Francis Publishing.

• R. Abu Zitar and Anwar Al-Shrouf, “ Application of Genetic Algorithm in Design of FIR filters,”   AMSE International Journal, Vol. 77, No. 1, AMSE Press,  France, 2004.

• Raed Abu Zitar,” Application of Neural Generated Error Signal in Classification and Compression of ECG Beats” , Engineering Journal of The University of Qatar, Vol. 15. 2002.

• R. Abu Zitar , ”Towards General Neural Glucose/Insulin model,”   International Journal of Computing and Information Sciences (IJCIS),Vol. 1, No. 1, Canada, ISSN 1708-0460.

• R. Abu Zitar, “ Genetic-Neural Approach versus Classical Approach for Arabic Character Recognition Using Freeman Chain Features Extraction,” IAJIT   Vol. 2, No. 4, October 2005.

• A.F. Nuseirat and Raed Abu Zitar, “ FIR filter Design via Linear Complementarity Problem,  Messy Genetic algorithm, and  Ising Messy Genetic Algorithm,”   International Journal of Signal Processing IJSP, Vol.1,No1. 2004..Enformatika Publishing.

• R. A. Abu Zitar, “Optimum Gripper Using Ant Colony Intelligence,” Industrial Robot Journal, Vol 23, No.1, Emerald publishers, 2004.

• R. Abu Zitar and A. F. Nuseirat, ”Evolutionary Based Method for the Nonlinear Gripper Problem,”  International Journal of   Applications in Science and Engineering, Vol. 2, 2004, Taiwan, ROC.

• R. Abu Zitar,” Polynomial Network Approach for Arabic Character Recognition,” Information : An International Journal, Vol. 8, No.1,Japan, 2005.

• R. Abu Zitar and Abdul Karemm Al-Jabali,” Towards General Neural  Glucose/Insulin-II ,” Informatica : An international Journal, 29, 2005. ACM Publishing.

• R.Abu Zitar and A. Nuseirat,” A Rule Based Machine Learning Approach to  the Nonlinear Multi-fingered Robot Gripper Problem,”  Control and Cybernetics, an International Journal, vol. 34, No2,2005. Polish Academy of Sciences Publishing.

• Khulood Abu Maria and Raed Abu Zitar," Emotional Agents: A Model and an Application" , International Journal , Information and Software Technology, Vo.l 49, No. 6, Elsevier Publishing, 2007.

• Ayman Al-Dmour and Raed Abu Zitar, " Arabic Writer Identification Based on Power's Spectrum and Law's Filter method, Vol. 19, No. 4, December 2007, 307–332 International Journal of Theoretical and Experimental Artificial Intelligence, Taylor and Francis Publishing.

• Raed Abu Zitar," The Ising Genetic Algorithm Based on Gibbs Distribution Sampling: FIR filter Design," the International Journal of  Applied Soft Computing, Vol 8/2 , pp 1085-1092, Elsevier Publishing.

• Mai Al-Tahrawi and Raed Abu Zitar, "Polynomial networks versus other   techniques in text categorization," International Journal of  Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 22 Number 2 March 2008: World Scientific Publishers.

• Raed Abu Zitar, Essam Hanandeh, “ Genetic Algorithm with Neighbor Solution Approach for Traveling Salesman Problem, accepted by International Journal of Neural Network World, No.5. 2007. VSP Publishers, the Netherlands.

• Hussein Hyassat and Raed Abu Zitar,” Arabic Speech Recognition        Using SPHINX engine,” the International Journal of Speech Technology,  8,  Springer Publishing, 2008.

• Hussam Hamad and Raed Abu Zitar,” Development of an Efficient  Neural-Based Segmentation  Technique for Arabic Handwriting Recognition”,  Pattern Recognition,doi:10.1016/j.patcog.2010.03.005, Elsevier Publishing, 2010,

• R. A. Abu Zitar and Abdullah Homaifar,” The Genetic Algorithm As an Alternative Method for Optimizing the Brachistochrone Problem,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Control and Modeling Rome, Italy, 1990.

• R. A. Abu Zitar and M. H. Hassoun, " Regulator Control via Genetic Assisted Reinforcement Learning," Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference  on Genetic Algorithms, pp. 251-260, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1993.

• R. A. Abu Zitar and M. H. Hassoun, "Genetic and Reinforcement-Based Rule Extraction for Regulator Control," Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Antonio, Texas, 1993.

• R. A. Abu Zitar, "PDP Paradigms of Neural Networks and Classifier Systems," Proceedings of International Workshop on Optimization and Parallel Computations, U.A.E University, Al-Ain, U.A.E., May 1994.

• M. Al-Fahed Nuseirat and R. Abu Zitar, “ Neural Network  Architecture  to solve LCP problems: Application to the Grasping problem,” proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2000.pp. 1587-1593.

• R. Abu Zitar,” Cascaded Neural Network for Classification of   Artificially  Modeled ECG Beats Using Error Signal,” proceedings  of International Conference   on Artificial Intelligence. Las Vegas, Nevada,  June 2000. pp.1594-1598.

• Anwar Al-Shrouf and R. Abu Zitar, “LVQ method to classify Artificial ECG Beats,” proceedings of the  4th IEEE  Jordanian International conference, April, 2001, pp. 315-319.

• R. Abu  Zitar,” FIR Filter Design using Evolutionary Programming Methods proceedings  of the 4th Jordanian International IEEE conference,   April, 2001,pp. 93-96.

• R. Abu Zitar , “ Toward a Neural Model for Insulin/Glucose in Diabetics,” Proceedings of the International conference on Artificial Intelligence , Las Vegas, June, 2003.

• Anwar Al-Shrouf, Raed Abu Zitar,  Ammer Al-hayri , and Mohmmed  AbuArqub , “Application of  Cepstrum Algorithms for Speech Recognition,” Lecture  Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag  the IEA/AIE 2003 conference,   England, UK.

• Raed Abu Zitar, “ FIR filter Design via Random, Messy Genetic algorithm, and    Ising Messy Genetic Algorithm,” proceedings of the 8th World Multiconference on Systems, Cybernetics, and Informatics (SCI 2004), Orlando, USA, July 18-21, 2004.

• Raed Abu Zitar and Hussien Hiyassat,” Optimizing the Ant Colony Optimization with Genetic Algorithm-II”, IASTED international Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ACTA press, Austria,  Feb, 2005.

• Raed Abu Zitar, " Gibbs Distribution Fitness Estimation for the Genetic Algorithm: Application to FIR Filter Design",  2006 IEEE International Conferences on Cybernetics & Intelligent Systems, 7 - 9 June 2006, Bangkok, Thailand.

• Yosef Jbara and Raed Abu Zitar, "Using the  Genetic Algorithm with Modified Crossover to Manage Staff Allocation - A Case Study" , the 4th   International Conference on Computational Intelligence Robotics and Autonomous Systems 2007 (CIRAS 2007), , November 28-30, 2007, New Zealand.

• Raed Abu Zitar and Yosef Jbara," Application of ACO to the Terrain Generation in 3 Dimensional Continuous Search Space", IASTED ASM 2008, Applied Simulation and Modeling Conference, Corfu, Greece, 23-25/June/2008.

• Manar Maraqa And Raed Abu Zitar,” Recognition of Arabic Sign Language      (ArSL) Using Recurrent Neural Networks,” the First IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web, Aug 4-6, 2008, Ostrava, Czeck Republic.

• Husam Al Hamad, Raed Abu Zitar, “Over-Segmentation of Handwriting Arabic Scripts using an Efficient Heuristic Technique”, Proceedings of World  Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Volume 36, November 2008, the WASET conference proceedings (ISSN 2070-3740), France, 2008.

• Husam Al Hamad, Raed Abu Zitar, “Neural-Based Segmentation Technique for Arabic Handwriting Recognition”, Proceedings of World  Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Volume 36, November 2008, the WASET conference proceedings (ISSN 2070-3740), France, 2008.

• Adel Hamdan and raed Abu Zitar, "Continuous Learning Approach for Spam Detection using Artificial Neural Network (CLA_ANN),"  ICICS 09 conference, Dec 2009, Amman Jordan.

• Adel Hamdan and Raed Abu Zitar, "Application of Genetic Optimized Artificial Immune System in Spam Detection,"  ICICS 09 conference , Dec 2009, Amman, Jordan.

• Ayman Al-Dmour, Ahmed Musa, and Raed Abu Zitar,”Arabic Handwriting Descriptor Using Gaussian Steerable Filters,” the 2010 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'10: July 12-15, 2010, USA).

• Suha Afaneh, Raed Abu Zitar and Alaa Al-Hamami," Virus Detection using Clonial  Selection Algorithm," The 2011 3rd  International Conference on Modeling and Simulation (ICCMS 2011),  January 7-9, 2011, Mumbai, India

• Raed Abu Zitar,  "Application of Messy Genetic Algorithms in the Design of One-dimensional and Two dimensional FIR    filters", in "Genetic and Evolutionary Image Processing and Analysis" European Association for Signal,  Speech, and Image Processing EURASIP Book Series, edited by Stefano Cagnoni, Evelyne Lutton, Gustavo Olague, 2006.

• Khulood Abu Maria and Raed Abu Zitar," EMAM: a Model for Emotional Agent", in" Simulation and Modeling: Current Technologies and Applications", Idea Group Publishing, edited by  Asim El-Sheikh and Evon Abu Taih, 2007.

• Raed Abu Zitar and Ayman Al-Dmour, “ FIR filter design with Genetic Algorithm,” chapter in book entitled “Computer vision” , by Springer Publishers. Edited by Stefano Cagnoni, et al. 2009.

• Khulood Abu Maria and Raed Abu Zitar,” Modeling of artificial emotions and its  application towards a healthy environment,” in a book entitled “ Environmental Management, Sustainable Development & Human Health” edited by Eddie Laboy, Fred Schaffner, Ahmed Abdelhadi and Mattheus Goosen. Published by Taylor and Francis, 2009.

• Adel Hamdan and Raed Abu Zitar, “Application of Genetic Optimized Artificial Immune System and Neural Networks in Spam Detection,” accepted at Applied Soft Computing, DOI : 10.1016/j.asoc.2011.02.021, Elsevier Publishing, 2011.

• Isalm Amro, Raed Abu Zitar, Hussein Bahadili,”Speech Compression Exploiting Linear Prediction Coefficients Codebook and Hamming Correction Code Algorithm,” accepted at the International Journal of Speech Technology, DOI: 10.1007/s10772-011-9091-7 Springer publishing, 2011.

• Manar Maraqa, Raed Abu Zitar, (et al) “ Recognition of Arabic Sign Language Using Neural Networks,” Accepted for publication at the Journal of Intelligent Learning Systems and Applications, 2011.

• Raed Abu Zitar and Adel Hamdan Mohammad, ― Spam Detection Using Genetic Assisted Artificial Immune System, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 25, No. 8, (December 2011) issue.World Scientific Publishers.

• Raed Abu Zitar (et. al.),‖ Hamming Correction Code Based Compression for Speech Linear Prediction Reflection Coefficients,‖ accepted by International Journal of Ad hoc and Mobile Networks, by IFRSA publishing, 2011.

• Raed Abu Zitar and Adel Hamdan, ― Spam Detection using Genetic Based Artificial Immune System: a review and a model. ―, DOI 10.1007/s10462-011-9285-z, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Review, Springer Publishing.

Awards / Honorary Memberships :

• Board of Directors of Association of Modeling and Simulation in Enterprises  (AMSE), Barcelona , Spain.

• Editorial Board for the International Arab Journal for Information Technology   (IAJIT), ISSN: 1683-3198.

• Editorial Board of the Scientific Journals International (SJI).

• Editorial Board for International Journal of Electrical Engineering that is published by Jordanian Engineering Association (JEA).

• Member of the Jordanian Electrical Engineering Association since 1988.

• IEEE Member (1990)

• Neural Networks Society (1991)

• Genetic Algorithm Society (1991)

• International Society of  Signal Processing 2004.

• International Society of Computational Intelligence 2004.

• The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS).

• UNRWA Scholarship (1983-1988)

• ASAI Fellowship (1990-1992)

• UNESCO Fellowship (1990-1993).

• Quality Assurance Recognition Award in Computer Science from Al-Hussien Funding for Excellence as a member of the Higher Committee (2003).  

• Hisham Al-Hijjawi Regional Award on Information Technology and Communications Sector for the year 2008.  

• NYIT Summer Research  Grant –Global Programs-2009---$ 3000.

• NYIT Summer Research  Grant –Global Programs-2010---$ 3000.

• NYIT Summer Research  Grant –Global Programs-2011---$ 3000.