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    mhammad@pmu.edu.sa

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  • Maen M. Hammad

  • Job Title :

    Professor

  • College :

    College of Computer Engineering and Science


  • Department :

    Software Engineering


Dr. Hammad is working as a Full Professor in the Department of Software Engineering at PMU, KSA. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Kent State University, USA in 2010. His research interest is in software engineering with focus on software evolution, software maintenance, program comprehension and mining software repositories. He published more than 30 Scopus indexed articles in international journals and conferences. Dr. Hammad has more than 15 years of experience in teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Software Engineering and Computer Science. He also supervised many master software engineering students. 

 

  • Ph.D. Computer Science, Kent State University– USA , 2010
  • M.S. Computer and Information Sciences, Al-Yarmouk University– Jordan , 2004
  • B.S. Computer Science, The Hashemite University– Jordan, 2002

 

Journals

  1. Wedyan, F., Freihat, R. and Hammad, M. "Visualization of aspect-oriented programs using city transportation metaphor", Cluster Computing, June 2022.
  2. Otoom, A.F., Hammad, M., Al-jdaeh, S., Awwad, S. and Idwan, S., "Predicting the amount of files required to fix a bug", International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2021, pp.167–184.
  1. Mustafa Hammad, M. Hammad, Batool Horani, Sari Awwad, "Mining Historical Changes to Predict Software Evolution", International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, Vol. 18, No. 4, 2021, pp. 502–515.
  2. M. Hammad, Haneen Hijazi, Mustafa Hammad and Ahmed Otoom, "Mining Expertise of Developers from Software Repositories", International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, Vol. 62, No. 3, 2020, pp. 227-239.
  3. Ahmed Fawzi Otoom, Alaa Alzaben, Razan Tlailan and Maen Hammad, “Software Effort Classification with Multilayer Perceptron Neural Networks”, International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2020, pp. 1678 – 1689.
  1. Maen Hammad, Ahmed Fawzi Otoom, Mustafa Hammad, Nadera Al-Jawabreh, Rawan Abu Seini, "Multiview Visualization of Software Testing Results", International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2020, pp. 51-59.
  2. Otoom, A.F.; AL Kateb, G.; Hammad, M.; Sweis, R.J.; Hijazi, H. "Success Factors Importance Based on Software Project Organization Structure". Information, Vol. 10, No. 12, 2019.
  1. Maen Hammad and Sabah Alsofriya, “Visualizing Code Bad Smells”, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, Vol. 10, No. 5, 2019, pp. 281-286.
  2. Ahmed F. Otoom, Doaa Al-Shdaifat, Maen Hammad, Emad E. Abdallah, Ashraf Aljammal, "Automated labelling and severity prediction of software bug reports", International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2019, pp. 334 – 342.
  1. Mustafa Hammad, Mohammad Bsoul, Maen Hammad, Muna Al-Hawawreh, "An Efficient Approach for Representing and Sending Data in Wireless Sensor Networks", Journal of Communications, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2019, pp. 104-109.
  1. Maen Hammad, Ruba Alzyoudi, Ahmed F. Otoom, "Automatic clustering of bug reports", International Journal of Advanced Computer Research, Vol. 8, No. 39, 2018, pp. 313-323.
  2. Maen Hammad, Asma Labadi, "Automatic Detection of Bad Smells from Code Changes", International Review on Computers and Software, Vol. 11, No. 11, 2016, pp. 1016-1027.
  1. Maen Hammad, Anas Abuljadayel, and Mohammad Khalaf, "Summarizing Services of Java Packages," Lecture Notes on Software Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2016, pp. 129-132.
  2. Maen Hammad and Fatima Abu-Zaitoun, “Visualizing the Evolution of Subsystems”, International Review on Computers and Software, Vol. 10, No. 8, 2015, pp. 875-882.
  1. M. Bsoul, Y. Kilani, M. Hammad, E. E. Abdallah, A. Alsarhan, “An Index-Based Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks”, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 82, No. 4, 2015, pp. 2185-2197.
  2. Ahmed F. Otoom, Emad E. Abdallah, Maen Hammad, “Breast Cancer Classification: Comparative Performance Analysis of Image Shape-Based Features and Microarray Gene Expression Data”, International Journal of Bio- Science and Bio-Technology, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2015, pp. 37-46.
  3. Maen Hammad, Mustafa Hammad, Hani Bani-Salameh, Ebaa Fayyoumi, “Measuring Developers’ Design Contributions in Evolved Software Projects”, Journal of Software, Vol. 9, No. 12, 2014, pp. 3005-3011.
  1. Otoom, A.F., Abdallah, E.E., Hammad, M., Bsoul, M. and Abdallah, A.E., “An intelligent system for author attribution based on a hybrid feature set”, International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, Vol. 6, No. 4, 2014, pp. 328–345.
  2. Maen Hammad, Somia Abufakher, Mustafa Hammad, “A Visualization Approach for Bug Reports in Software Systems”, International Journal of Software Engineering and Its applications, Vol. 8, No. 10, 2014, pp. 37-46.
  1. Mohammad Bsoul, Ayoub Alsarhan, Ahmed Otoom, Maen Hammad, Ahmad Al-Khasawneh, “A dynamic replication strategy based on categorization for Data Grid”, Multiagent and Grid Systems – An International Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2014, pp. 109-118.
  2. Maen Hammad, Mustafa Hammad, Ahmed F. Otoom, Mohammad Bsoul, “Detecting Breaks in Design Patterns from Code Changes”, Journal of Software, Vol. 9, No. 6, 2014, pp. 1485-1493.
  1. M. Hammad, Mustafa Hammad, Mohammad Bsoul, “An Approach to Automatically Enforce Object Oriented Constraints”, International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, Vol. 49, No. 1, 2014, pp. 50-59.
  2. Hani Bani-Salameh, Sanaa Alwidian , Maen Hammad, Fadi Wedyan, “An Evaluation Model for Social Development Environments”, International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2014, pp. 323-336.
  1. Maen Hammad, Mustafa Hammad, Hani Bani-Salameh, “Identifying Designers and their Design Knowledge”, International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications, Vol. 7, No. 6, 2013, pp. 277-288.
  2. Hani Bani-Salameh, C. Jeffery, M. Hammad, “Developers' Social Networks--Tools Analysis Based on the 3Cs Model”, International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2013, pp 159–175.
  1. Kagdi, H., Gethers, M., Poshyvanyk, D., Hammad, M. "Assigning Change Requests to Software Developers", Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Volume 24, Issue 1, pages 3–33, January 2012..
  2. Hammad, M., Collard, M.L., Maletic, J. I., "Automatically Identifying Changes that Impact Code-to-Design Traceability During Evolution", Software Quality Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1, March 2011, pp. 35-64. (Invited submission to special issue on Best Papers from ICPC 2009).
  1. Al-Taani, A., and Hammad, M., "Recognition of On-line Handwritten Arabic Digits Using Structural Features and Transition Network", Informatica, An International Journal for Computing and Informatics, Vol. 32, No. 3, October 2008, pp. 275-281.
  2. M. Al-Kabi, G. Kanaan, R. Al-Shalabi, N. Zaghal, Z. Salah, M. Hammad,"Stem-Based Query Expansion for Arabic Corpus, " Abhath Al-Yarmouk Journal: Basis Sci. & Eng., Vol. 18, No.2, Yarmouk University, Jordan, 2009, pp.227 - 246

Conferences

  1. Maen Hammad, Sabah Alsofriya, Ahmed Fawzi Otoom. "Towards Visualizing the Status of Bug Reports", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology-New Generations, 2024, USA, pp. 491-496.
  2. Maen Hammad, Rua’a Banat, "Automatic Class Decomposition using Clustering", in Proceedings of the 18th 2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C), Stuttgart, Germany, 2021, pp. 78-81.
  1. Ahmed F. Otoom, Sara Al-Jdaeh, Maen Hammad, "Automated Classification of Software Bug Reports", in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Communication and Management (ICICM'19), Prague, Czech Republic, 2019, pp. 17-21.
  2. Maen Hammad, "Design Observer: A Framework to Monitor Design Evolution", in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG’17), Las Vegas, USA, April 10- 12, 2017, pp. 635-640.
  1. AF Otoom, M. Hammad, N Al-Jawabreh, RA Seini, "Visualizing Testing Results for Software Projects", in Proceedings of the 17th International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT'16), Morocco, 2016.
  2. Maen Hammad, Rajaa Abu-Wandi and Haneen Aydeh, “Automatic Reverse Engineering of Classes’ Relationships”, in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG’16), Las Vegas, USA, April 11-13, 2016, pp. 1267-1272.
  3. Ahmed Otoom, Doaa Al-Shdaifat, Maen Hammad and Emad Abdallah, “Severity Prediction of Software Bugs”, in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS’16), Irbid, Jordan, April 5-7, 2016, pp.
  1. Dragan, N., Collard, M.L., Hammad, M., Maletic, J.I., “Using Stereotypes to Help Characterize Commits”, in Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'11), Williamsburg, VA, Sep 27-29, 2011, pp. 520-523.
  2. Maen Hammad, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Maletic, "Measuring Class Importance in the Context of Design Evolution", in Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC'10), Braga, Portugal, June 30 - July 2, 2010, pp. 148-151.
  3. Maen Hammad, Michael L. Collard, and Jonathan I. Maletic, "Automatically Identifying Changes that Impact Code-to-Design Traceability", in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC'09), Vancouver, Canada, May 17-19, 2009, pp. 20-29.
  1. Kagdi, H., Hammad, M., and Maletic, J. I., "Who Can Help Me with this Source Code Change?", in Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'08), China, Sept. 28 - Oct. 4, 2008, pp. 157-166.

Department of Software Engineering

College of Computer Engineering and Science

Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University

AlKhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Email: mhammad@pmu.edu.sa

 

  • Dean of the Scientific Research, The Hashemite University, 2023-2025
  • Vice Dean of the Scientific Research, The Hashemite University, 2022-2023.
  • Professor, Department of Software Engineering, The Hashemite University, since Nov. 2020.
  • Associate Professor, Department of Software Engineering, The Hashemite University, 2015-2020
  • Vice Dean of the IT Faculty, The Hashemite University, 2015-2020.
  • Chair of the Software Engineering Department, The Hashemite University, 2010-2013.
  • Assistant Professor. Department of Software Engineering, The Hashemite University, 2010-2015.
  • Teacher Assistant. Department of Computer Science, Kent State University, USA 2008 - 2010.
  • Teacher and Research Assistant. Department of Computer Science, The Hashemite University, 2004- 2006

 

  • Software Maintenance and Evolution (Graduate course).
  • Software Design and Architecture (Graduate course).
  • Special Topics-System Reengineering (Graduate course).
  • Research Project (Graduate course)
  • Software Design.
  • Software Engineering.
  • Object Oriented Software Development.
  • Software Ethics and Security.
  • Information Security.
  • Data Structure.
  • Object Oriented Programming using JAVA.
  • Object Oriented Programming using C++.
  • Visual Programming using VB.NET.
  • Operating Systems.

 

software engineering with focus on software evolution, software maintenance, program comprehension and mining software repositories.