Academic Staff

COURSES TAUGHT

Introduction to Software Engineering
Introduction to Computer Information Systems
E-Business
Requirements Engineering
Communication Skills and Technical Writing
Computer Skills (Information Technology)
Computer Skills 1
Computer Skills 2
Introduction to Programming
Software Maintenance
Software Testing and Quality Assurance
Software Project Management

ACADEMIC RANKS

Rank	University	Country	Date
Professor	Al-Ahliyya Amman University	Jordan	2021
Associate Professor	Al-Ahliyya Amman University	Jordan	2017
Assistant Professor	Al-Ahliyya Amman University	Jordan	2012

QUALIFICATION

Degree	Institute	Specialization	Date
Phd	University of Technology Sydney	Software Engineering	June 2012
Masters Degree	University of Western Sydeny	Computer Networks	June 2003
Bachelors Degree	Yarmouk University	Computer Science	June 2001

WORK EXPERIENCE

Job Title	Institute	Time Period
Professor	Al-Ahliyya Amman University	September 2021 - January Present
Dean of Faculty of Information Technology	Al-Ahliyya Amman University	September 2017 - September 2020
Associate Professor	Al Ahliyya Amman University	November 2017 - September 2021
Head of Software Engineering Department	Al-Ahliyya Amman University	September 2015 - September 2017
Assistant Professor	Al-Ahliyya Amman University	September 2012 - January 2017

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Recommender Systems
Software Engineering
Data Science

RESEARCHES & PUBLICATIONS

Shambour, Q. (2021) A Deep Learning based Algorithm for Multi-Criteria Recommender Systems. Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 211, no. 2021, pp. 1-8.
Shambour, Q., Turab, N. & Adwan, O. (2021) An Effective e-Commerce Recommender System Based on Trust and Semantic Information. Cybernetics and Information Technologies, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 103-118.
Shambour, Q., Abualhaj, M., Kharma, Q. & Taweel, F. (2021) A Fusion Multi-Criteria Collaborative Filtering Algorithm for Hotel Recommendations. International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics, In Press
Shambour, Q., Hussein, A.H., Abualhaj, M. & Kharma, Q. (2021) An Effective Hybrid Content-based Collaborative Filtering Approach for Requirements Engineering. Computer Systems Science and Engineering, In Press
Kharma, Q., Hassan, M., Shambour, Q., Turab, N., Nairoukh, K. (2020) Unified M-Government Application Based on Cloud-Mediator Architecture. ICIC Express Letters, Part B: Applications, 11(2)
Abualhaj, M.M., Shambour, Q.Y. & Hussein, A.H. (2020) Effective Packet Multiplexing Method to Improve Bandwidth Utilisation. International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 327-336
Shambour, Q.Y., Abu-Alhaj, M.M. & Al-Tahrawi, M.M. (2020) A Hybrid Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Algorithm for Requirements Elicitation. International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, vol. 63, no. 1-2, pp. 135-146.
Kharma, Q., Turab, N.M., Shambour, Q. & Hassan, M. (2020) Secure Cloud-Mediator Architecture for Mobile-Government using RBAC and DUKPT. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), vol. 14, no. 04, pp. 44-60.
Al-Tahrawi, M.M., Abualhaj, M.M. & Shambour, Q.Y. (2020) Spam E-Mail Filtering Using Polynomial Neural Networks. Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 2090-2109
Shambour, Q., Alkhatib, S.N., Abualhaj, M.M. & Alrabanah, Y. (2020) Effective Voice Frame Shrinking Method to Enhance VoIP Bandwidth Exploitation. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, vol. 11, no. 7, pp. 313-319.
Shambour, Q., Fraihat, S. & Hourani, M. (2018) The Implementation of Mobile Technologies in Higher Education: A Mobile Application for University Course Advising . Journal of Internet Technology, In Press
Hourani, M., Turab, N. & Shambour, Q. (2017) The Assessment of Patient Clinical Outcome: A Literature Discussion. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, vol. 10, no. 2, pp.321-333
Hourani, M. & Shambour, Q. (2016) The Assessment of Patient Clinical Outcome: Challenges, Methods, and Conceptual Limitations. International Journal of Medical Research & Health Sciences, vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 39-49
Hourani, M., Shambour, Q. & Turab, N. (2016) The Assessment of Patient Clinical Outcome: Advantages, Models, Features of an Ideal Model. Indian Journal of Community Health, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 116-124
Shambour, Q. (2016) A User-Based Multi-Criteria Recommendation Approach for Personalized Recommendations. International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, vol. 14, no. 12, pp. 657-663
Shambour, Q., Hourani, M. & Fraihat, S. (2016) An Item-based Multi-Criteria Collaborative Filtering Algorithm for Personalized Recommender Systems. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications , vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 274-279
Shambour, Q., Fraihat, S. & Hourani, M. (2016) A Semantic Multi-Agent Architecture for Multilingual Machine Translation. International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 624-635
Fraihat, S., Shambour, Q (2015) A Framework of Semantic Recommender System for E-Learning. Journal of Software, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 317–330
Shambour, Q. & Lu, J. (2015) An Effective Recommender System by Unifying User and Item Trust Information for B2B Applications. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, vol. 81, no. 7, pp. 1110–1126
Abu-Errub, A., Odeh, A., Shambour, Q., Al-Haj Hassan, O. (2014) Arabic Roots Extraction Using Morphological Analysis. International Journal of Computer Science Issues, vol. 11, no. 2, pp.128-134
Hourani, M., Shambour, Q., Al-Zubidy, A., & Al-Smadi, A. (2014) Proposed Design and Implementation for RESTful WebServer. Journal of Software, vol. 9, no. 5, pp.1071-1080
Abdali, S., Hourani, M., Abuerrub, A., & Shambour, Q. (2013) Toward a Conceptual Framework for Integrating Enterprises Performance and Risk Management. Journal of Management Research, vol. 5, no. 4, pp.145-166
Lu, J., Shambour, Q., Xu, Y., Lin, Q. & Zhang, G. (2013) A Web-Based Personalized Business Partner Recommendation System Using Fuzzy Semantic Techniques. Computational Intelligence, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 37-69
Shambour, Q. & Lu, J. (2012) A Trust-Semantic Fusion-based Recommendation Approach for e-Business Applications. Decision Support Systems, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 768–780

CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

Conference Title	Type of Participation	Date
Proceedings of The First International Conference on Soft Computing and Data Mining (SCDM-2014)	Paper/Poster	June 2014
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision-Making (MCDM 2011)	Paper/Poster	January 2011
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI’11)	Paper/Poster	January 2011
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG 2010)	Paper/Poster	January 2010
Proceedings of the 28th North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Annual Conference (NAFIPS2009)	Paper/Poster	January 2009
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE2009)	Paper/Poster	January 2009

CONSULTING & TRAINING COURSES

Title	Location	Date
N/A		2019

THESIS SUPERVISION

Title	Location	Date
N/A		2019

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIP

Title	Location	Date
The Chancellors' List for 2012. The places on the Chancellor's List are given each year for the six best ranked Doctoral theses. I was one of the students named on the chancellor’s List in recognition of exceptional scholarly achievement in PhD research in 2012. University of Technology, Sydney (http://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/UTS-outstanding-achievers-2013.pdf).	University of Technology Sydney - Sydney - Australia	2012