Smart Buildings _ UoE

Our faculty was able to start execution of cooperation contract between the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology at King Abdulaziz University and School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex (the contract period of 5 years) on 24/12/1431. Current activities aimed at the contract to increase the dissemination of scientific research in the field of smart buildings until accessing the full vision of serving our community by building a unique center at our university entitled "Smart AI Research Center of Excellence". The benefit of this contract is to make our University the leader by building the center of excellence for Artificial Intelligence. The center is supported on the outcomes of this collaboration of research, which will be designed on an intelligent hardware and software, and will be unique of its kind in the world.

An IEEE Western Saudi Arabia Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter (geo-code is CH08793) has formed on Feb 9, 2015

ScaleUp Project

[+] The Overall Strategic 
Goals of the ScaleUP Project

1. Research
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 To build upon current Intelligent Environment (IE) research and investigate the methods and models needed to realise large scale IEs.
2. Facilities
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 To develop experimental facilities at both KAU and UOE for use throughout the project and in support of the other project goals.
3. Education
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 To provide education to students and career development to researcher partners in support of the other project goals.
4. Dissemination
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 To further establish the international research reputation for both KAU and UOE through publication (with an emphasis on ISI ranked conferences / journals).

[+] The Four Work Packages of the ScaleUP Project

1. Intelligent Agents:
   Members: Hani Hagras, Areej Malibari, Aysenur Bilgin (Researcher Interest: Daniyal Al-Ghazzawi).
   Description: The focus of this work package is in the enablement of intelligent agents within the overall ScaleUp scope using appropriate methods and models. Of particular interest is the use of agent based learning that allows behavioural evolution and adaptation over time in light of dynamic real‐world environments.
2. Intelligent Video Systems:
   Members: Hani Hagras, Mohammed Ghanbari, Daniyal Al-Ghazzawi,
 Bob Yao (Researcher Interest: Areej Malibari)
   Description: The investigation of this work package is focused on the intelligent acquisition, processing and distribution of video and / or its related (extracted, 
tagged, etc.) information that can be used to enrich the information landscape of intelligent environments. Object recognition, identification and tracking are prime examples of the kind of information that can be produced by the se kinds of systems.
3. Adjustable Autonomy / HCI:
   Members: Vic Callaghan, Michael Gardner, Mohammed Al-Haddad,
 Anasol Pena Rios (Researcher Interest: Mohammed Al‐Haddad)
   Description: This work package explores the very personal balance between 
autonomy and user control that can be adjusted statically and at run time. Incorporated into this is a great deal of human‐computer interfacing, including (but not limited to brain‐computer interfaces, mixed reality and physiological monitoring).
4. Infrastructure & Formal Methods:
   Members: Martin Henson, James Dooley, Abdullah Al-Ghamdi,
 Luke Whittington (Researcher Interest: Mohammed Al‐Haddad)
   Description: This work package aims to investigate the overall infrastructure and organization that is required to scale up current intelligent environment methods and
understanding to a large scale. This can be specified and modelled using formal methods that in turn influence middleware construction, reliable operation and optimization.

[+] The Expected Goals of the Cooperation Project

1. Training the faculty members abroad.
2. Twinning the two universities in research and publishing joint research.
3. Planning to build a center of excellence such as a center for artificial intelligence.

[+] Patents

1. Anasol Pena-Rios, Victor Callaghan, Michael Gardner, Daniyal Alghazzawi and Mohammed Alhaddad "Mixed-reality system," United Kingdom Patent Application GB1517101.0, 28 September 2015 (Pending) 
   [Link]
2. Bo Yao, Hani Hagras, Daniyal Alghazzawi and Areej Malibari “Event detection and summarisation,” United Kingdom Patent Application GB1506444.7, 16 April 2015 (Pending)
   [Link]
3. Alessandro Ghelli, Hani Hagras, Aysenur Bilgin, Daniyal Alghazzawi and Ghadah Aldabbagh “An Energy Efficient Electric Cooker,” United Kingdom Patent Application GB1421419.1, 02 December 2014 (Pending)
   [Link]

[+] Publications about the ScaleUP Project

1. Khalid Almohammadi, Hani Hagras, Daniyal Alghazzawi and Ghadah Aldabbagh. (2016). "Users-Centric Adaptive Learning System Based on Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic for Massively Crowded E-learning Platforms", Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research, Vol. 6, No. 2, March 2016, Page: 81–101, ISSN: 2083-2567, De Gruyter. DOI: 10.1515/jaiscr-2016-0008. [View]
2. Bo Yao, Hani Hagras, Daniyal Alghazzawi, and Mohammed Alhaddad. (2016). "A Big Bang-Big Crunch Type-2 Fuzzy Logic System for Machine Vision-Based Event Detection and Summarization in Real-world Ambient Assisted Living", IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Vol. PP, No. 99, January 2016, ISSN: 1063-6706, IEEE.  Doi:10.1109/TFUZZ.2016.2514366. (ISI Impact Factor: 8.746) [Link] [View]
3. Aysenur Bilgin, Hani Hagras, Alessandro Ghelli, Daniyal Alghazzawi and Ghadah Aldabbagh. (2015). "An Ambient Intelligent and Energy Efficient Food Preparation System Using Linear General Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Based Computing with Words Framework", IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, Vol.10, No.4, November 2015, Page:66-78, ISSN: 1556-603X, IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/MCI.2015.2471255. (ISI Impact Factor: 2.571) [Link]
4. Khalid Almohammadi, Hani Hagras, Bo Yao, Abdulkareem Alzahrani, Daniyal Alghazzawi, and Ghadah Aldabbagh. (2015). "A Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Recommendation System for Adaptive Teaching", Soft Computing, August 15th, 2015, Page: 1-15, ISSN: 1432-7643, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s00500-015-1826-y. (ISI Impact Factor: 1.271) [Link]
5. Khalid Almohammadi, Bo Yao, Abdulkareem Alzahrani, Hani Hagras and Daniyal Alghazzawi. (2015). "An Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Based System for Improved Instruction within Intelligent E-Learning Platforms", The 2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems. Istanbul, Turkey, August 2nd-5th, 2015. [Link]
6. Aysenur Bilgin, Hani Hagras, Daniyal Alghazzawi, Areej Malibari and Mohammed Alhaddad. (2015). "Employing an Enhanced Interval Approach to Encode Words into Linear General Type-2 Fuzzy Sets for Computing With Words Applications", The 2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems. Istanbul, Turkey, August 2nd-5th, 2015. [Link]
7. Aysenur Bilgin, Hani Hagras, Joy Van Helvert and Daniyal Alghazzawi. (2015). "A Linear General Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Based Computing With Words Approach for Realising an Ambient Intelligent Platform for Cooking Recipes Recommendation", IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Vol.PP, No.99, July 8th, 2015, Page: 1, ISSN: 1063-6706, IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2015.2453400. (ISI Impact Factor: 6.306)   [Link]
8. Hani Hagras, Daniyal Alghazzawi, Ghadah Aldabbagh. (2015). "Employing Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems in the Efforts to Scale-up Ambient Intelligent Environments”, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, Vol.10, No.1, February 2015, Page: 44-51, ISSN: 1556-603X, IEEE. DOI:10.1109/MCI.2014.2350952.   (ISI Impact Factor: 2.706) [Link]
9. Bo Yao, Hani Hagras, Mohammed Alhaddad, Daniyal Alghazzawi. (2015). "A Fuzzy Logic-Based System for the Automation of Human Behavior Recognition Using Machine Vision in Intelligent Environments”, Soft Computing, February 2015, ISSN: 1432-7643, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s00500-014-1270-4. [Link]
10. Tufan Kumbasar and Hani Hagras. (2014). "Big Bang-Big Crunch Optimization Based Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Pid Cascade Controller Design Strategy", Journal of Information Sciences, Vol: 282, Pages 277–295, October 2014, ISSN: 0020-0255, Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2014.06.005. [View] [Link]
11. Khalid Almohammadi, Bo Yao, and Hani Hagras. (2014). "An Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Based System with User Engagement Feedback for Customized Knowledge Delivery within Intelligent E-Learning Platforms”, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2014), Beijing, China, July 6th-11th, 2014, Page: 808 - 817, ISBN:9978-1-4799-2073-0, IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2014.6891663. [Link]
12. Marc Davies, Vic Callghan, Daniyal Alghazzawi. (2014). "Towards MMO Intelligent Environment”, Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Shanghai, China, July 2014, Page: 242 - 248, IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/IE.2014.45. [Link]
13. Anasol Peña-Rios, Vic Callaghan, Michael Gardner, and Mohammed Alhaddad. (2014). "Using mixed reality to develop smart environments, Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Shanghai, China, July 2014, Page: 182 - 189, IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/IE.2014.34. [Link]
14. Bo Yao, Hani Hagras, Daniyal Alghazzawi and Mohammed Alhaddad. (2014). "A Type-2 Fuzzy Logic System for Linguistic Summarization of Video Sequence in Indoor Intelligent Environments”, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2014), Beijing, China, July 6th-11th, 2014. (Awarded Best Paper) [View]
15. Aysenur Bilgin, Hani Hagras, S. Upasane, Areej Malibari, Mohammed Alhaddad, and Daniyal Alghazzawi. (2014). "An Adaptive Ambient Intelligent Platform for Recommending Recipes Using Computing with Words”, Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE), Shanghai, China, June 30th - July 4th, 2014, Page: 1-8, IEEE. DOI:10.1109/IE.2014.57. [Link]
16. Anasol Peña-Rios, Vic Callaghan, Michael Gardner, and Mohammed Alhaddad. (2013). "xReality interactions within a mixed reality learning environments", 3rd European Immersive Education Summit (EiED’13), London, UK, November 28th-29th, 2013, Page: 26-35, ISBN: 978-84-695-8902-1. [View]
17. Aysenur Bilgin, Hani Hagras, Areej Malibari, Daniyal Alghazzawi, and Mohammed Alhaddad. (2013). "A Computing with Words Framework for Ambient Intelligence" , IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2013), Manchester, United Kingdom, October 13th-16th, 2013, Page: 2887-2892, IEEE. [Link]
18. Bo Yao, Hani Hagras, Daniyal Alghazzawi, and Mohammed Alhaddad. (2013). "A Big Bang-Big Crunch Optimization for a Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Based Human Behaviour Recognition System in Intelligent Environments" , IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2013), Manchester, United Kingdom, October 13th-16th, 2013, Page: 2880-2886, IEEE. [Link]
19. Anasol Peña-Rios, Vic Callaghan, Michael Gardner, and Mohammed Alhaddad. (2013). "Developing xReality objects for mixed-reality environments" , 1st Workshop on Cloud of Things (CoT'13), Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, held at the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Athens, Greece, July 16th-17th, 2013, Vol. 17, Page: 190-200, ISBN: 978-1-61499-285-1, IOS Press. [Link]
20. Bo Yao, Hani Hagras, Daniyal Alghazzawi and Mohammed Alhaddad. (2013). "A Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Machine Vision Based Approach for Human Behaviour Recognition in Intelligent Enviroments" , IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2013), Hyderabad, India, July 7th-10th, 2013, IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2013.6622337. [View] [Link]
21. Aysenur Bilgin, Hani Hagras, Areej Malibari, Mohammed Alhaddad and Daniyal Alghazzawi. (2013). "An Experience Based Linear General Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Approach for Computing With Words" , IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2013), Hyderabad, India, July 7th-10th, 2013, IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2013.6622373. [View] [Link]
22. Aysenur Bilgin, Hani Hagras, Areej Malibari, Mohammed Alhaddad, Daniyal Alghazzawi. (2013). "Towards a linear general type-2 fuzzy logic based approach for computing with words", Soft Computing A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, Vol:17, May 2013 ISSN: 1432-7643, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s00500-013-1046-2. [Link]
23. Anasol Peña-Ríos,Vic Callaghan, Michael Gardner, and Mohammed Alhaddad. (2012). "Remote mixed reality collaborative laboratory activities: Learning activities within the InterReality Portal", 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), The Intelligent Campus International Symposium (IC’12), Macau, China, December, 4th-7th, 2012, Vol.3, Page: 362-366, ISBN: 978-1-4673-6057-9, IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/WI-IAT.2012.43. [Link]
24. Anasol Peña-Rios, Vic Callaghan, Michael Gardner, and Mohammed Alhaddad. (2012). “End-user programming & deconstrutionalism for collaborative mixed reality laboratory co-creative activities”, 2nd European Immersive Education Summit (EiED’12), Paris, France, November 26th and 27th, 2012, Page: 171-182, ISBN: 978-84-695-6427-1. [View]
25. Aysenur Bilgin, Hani Hagras, Areej Malibari, Mohammed Alhaddad and Daniyal Alghazzawi. (2012). "A General Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Approach for Adaptive Modeling of Perceptions for Computing With Words", the 12th Annual Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2012), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, September 5 - 7, 2012, ISBN: 978-1-4673-4391-6, IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/UKCI.2012.6335769. [View] [Link] [Awarded Best Paper]
26. Bo Yao, Hani Hagras, Mohammed Ghanbari, Mohammed Alhaddad, and Daniyal Alghazzawi. (2012). "A Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Approach for Detecting Human Related Events in Videos", the 12th Annual Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2012) held at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, September 5th - 7th, 2012, IEEE.
27. Luke Whittington, James Dooley, Martin Henson and Abdullah Al-Ghamdi. (2012). “Towards FollowMe User Profiles for Macro Intelligent Environments”, In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop On Large Scale Intelligent Environments (WOLSIE) held at the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Guanajuato, Mexico, June 26th, 2012, IOPress. DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-080-2-179. [View] [Link]
28. Martin Henson, James Dooley, Abdullah Al-Ghamdi and Luke Whittington. (2012). "FollowMe: A Bigraphical Approach", In proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Reliability of Intelligent Environments (WoRIE'12) held at the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Guanajuato, Mexico, June 26th, 2012, IOPress. DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-080-2-179. [View] [Link]
29. Martin Henson, James Dooley,Abdullah Al-Ghamdi and Luke Whittington. (2012). “Towards Simple and Effective Formal Methods for Intelligent Environments”, In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Environments 2012 (IE'12), Guanajuato, Mexico, 2012, IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/IE.2012.26. [View] [Link]
30. Anasol Peña-­Ríos, Vic Callaghan, Michael Gardner and Mohammed Alhaddad. (2012). “InterReality Portal: A mixed reality co-­‐creative intelligent learning environment”, In proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Future Intelligent Educational Environments (WOFIEE'12), held at the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Environments 2012 (IE'12), Guanajuato, Mexico, 2012. DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-080-2-298. [View] [Link]
31. Anasol Peña-­Ríos, Vic Callaghan, Michael Gardner and Mohammed Alhaddad. (2012). “Towards the Next Generation of Learning Environments: An InterReality Learning Portal and Model”, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE2012), Brisbane, Australia, June 10th - 15th, 2012, ISBN: 978-1-4673-1507-4, IEEE. DOI:10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2012.6251220. [View] [Link]
32. Aysenur Bilgin, Hani Hagras, Areej Malibari, Mohammed Alhaddad and Daniyal Alghazzawi. (2012). “Towards A General Type-­2 Fuzzy Logic Approach for Computing With Words Using Linear Adjectives”, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE2012), Brisbane, Australia, June 10th - 15th, 2012, ISBN: 978-1-4673-1507-4, IEEE. DOI:10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2012.6251220. [View] [Link]
33. Aysenur Bilgin, James Dooley, Luke Whittington, Hani Hagras, Michael Henson, Christian Wagner, Areej Malibari, Abdullah Al-­Ghamdi, Mohammed Alhaddad and Daniyal Alghazzawi. (2012). “Dynamic Profile-­‐Selection for zSlices Based Type-­2 Fuzzy Agents Controlling Multi-­User Ambient Intelligent Environments”, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE2012), Brisbane, Australia, June 10th - 15th, 2012, ISBN: 978-1-4673-1507-4, IEEE. DOI:10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2012.6251256. [View] [Link]
34. Bob Yao, Hani Hagras, Daniyal Alghazzawi and Mohammed Alhaddad. (2012). “An Interval Type-­‐2 Fuzzy Logic System for Human Silhouette Extraction in Dynamic Environments”, Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, Aviero, Portugal, June 2012, Page: 126-134, ISBN: 978-3-642-31367-7, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31368-4_15. [View] [Link]
35. James Dooley, Vic Callaghan, Hani Hagras, Michael Gardner, Mohammed Ghanbari and Daniyal Alghazzawi. (2011). "The Intelligent Classroom : Beyond Four Walls", iCampus Workshop (IC'11) held at the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'11), Nottingham, UK, July 25th - 26th, 2011, IOS Press. DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-795-6-457. [View] [Link]
36. James Dooley, Martin Henson, Vic Callaghan, Hani Hagras, Daniyal Alghazzawi, Areej Malibari, Mohammed Alhaddad and Abdullah Al-­Ghamdi. (2011). "A Formal Model For Space Based Ubiquitous Computing", 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'11), Nottingham, UK, July 25th -28th, 2011, Page: 74-79, ISBN: 978-1-4577-0830-5, IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/IE.2011.63. [View] [Link]

[+] Events & Workshops

1. Workshop Title: "An Integrated Workshop to Learning from Data and Multi-Agents Scaled up Intelligent Environments"
   Date: (20/12/2014-1/1/2015 )
   Attachment: The Presentation
2. Workshop Title: "An Integrated Workshop to Introduce Intelligent Environments and Intelligent Systems"
   Date: (7/6/2014-19/6/2014)
   Attachment: The Presentation
3. Seminar Title: "Introduction to the Scale-up Project"
   Date & Time: 10 Dec 2012 at 1:00pm
   Location: Meeting Room @ FCIT at KAU
   Attachment: The Presentation

[+] The Professional Team Who Work on this Project

1. Grant Holder:

Daniyal Al-Gazzawi.

Hani Hagras.

Vic Callaghan.

Martin Henson.

2. Project Manager:
   • James Dooley.

3. Researcher:
• Areej Malibari.
• Mohammed Al‐Haddad.
• Abdullah Al-Ghamdi.
• Ghada Al-­Dabbagh.
• Mohammed Ghanbari.
• Michael Gardner.

4. Student:
• Luke Whittington.
• Aysenur Bilgin.
• Anasol Pena Rios.
• Bob Yao.

[+] Contact Us

• Coordinator name: Dr. AbdulRahman Talhi
  Office Phone: 6952530
  E-mail: fcit.dean@kau.edu.sa
  Fax: 6952000 Ext 67437
• Principal Researcher: Dr. Daniyal Mohammed AlGhazzawi
  Office Phone: 6951332
  E-mail: dghazzawi@kau.edu.sa
  Fax: 6952000 Ext 67437

The Environment Development Middleware Kit (EDK) is a middleware system designed to allow external computer programs to access and potentially control a broad range of individual “smart devices”. Entire intelligent environments, containing multiple devices of various types each connected via a common network, can also be represented using the mechanism API.
The EDK was developed by Dr. Marc Davis as part of ScaleUp, an international collaboration project between the University of Essex in the UK and King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia.

The Environment Development Middleware Kit (EDK) middleware is currently in early alpha release. While efforts have been made to remove bugs from the system, it is possible some remain. Users of the EDK and its API do so at their own risk. Devices being controlled with the EDK should not be left unsupervised at any time. The EDK creators accept no responsibility for any damage to persons or property arising directly or indirectly as a result of using the system or any related software. By using the EDK you indicate your agreement to these terms.