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CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. George Sammour
Management Information Systems (MIS)/King Talal Faculty of Business & Technology,
Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT), Amman, Jordan
Phone: +962 6 535 9949, +962 777 636188 Fax: +962 6 534 7295
E-mail: [email protected]
1. Personal Data
Date of Birth: 26/5/1966
Nationality: Jordanian
2. Education
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Ph.D. Business Informatics 2013, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
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M.Sc. (Computer Science 2005, Amman Arab University, Amman, Jordan
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B.Sc. Computer Science 1997, Princess Sumaya University for Technology,
Amman, Jordan
3. Ph.D. Dissertation
Analyzing the Predictive Performance of Scheduler Process Models of Rule-based
Activity-based Models, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
4. Employment
Academic Positions
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Assistant Professor, Management Information systems Department , Princess
Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan.
September 11, 2015– Now
Chairman of the Management Information Systems Department, Princess
Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan.
September 22, 2013 – September 10, 2015
Assistant Professor, Management Information systems Department , Princess
Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan.
February 3, 2013 – September 21, 2013
Instructor, Management Information systems Department , Princess Sumaya
University for Technology, Amman, Jordan
September 4, 2011 – February 2, 2013
Researcher / PhD candidate , Transportation Research Institute, Hasselt
University, Hasselt, Belgium
March 18, 2008 – August 31, 2011
Graduate Assistant, Applied Economics Department, Hasselt University,
Hasselt, Belgium
October 18, 2008 – March 31, 2011
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Instructor & Webmaster, Computer Science Department , Princess Sumaya
University for Technology, Amman, Jordan
September 30, 2006 – February 2, 2008
Lab. Instructor, Computer Science Department , Princess Sumaya University for
Technology, Amman, Jordan
September 30, 1998 – September 30, 2006
5. Research Interests (major fields of research, and related fields)
Modeling and Data mining
Activity-based transportation forecasting models,
Validation and performance analysis of process models,
e-Learning, Knowledge Management, and Semantic Web.
6. Membership in Scientific Societies and Associations
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Member of the research group: Business informatics/ Hasselt University.
Editorial board member at the Journal of Business & Management.
7. Fellowships and Scholarships
Full PhD scholarship from Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
2008-2011.
8. Teaching Experience
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Graduate Courses
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Data Mining and Modeling
Electronic Business
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Business Intelligence
Enterprise systems Architecture
Activity Based Models
Undergraduate Courses
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Electronic Business
Management Information systems
Decision support systems
Data Security
Operating Systems
Data mining
Data Analytics
Business process management
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Professional and Scientific Meetings or workshops
Participation in Scientific meetings
 CRM Workshop, The first international Conference on E-Business and ELearning (EBEL 05) may 2005, Amman, Jordan.
10. Participation in or organization of curricular and/or extracurricular activities
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Academic program consultant / Member of the advisory board of academic
programs and curriculum, Al-Khawarizmi International College, Abu Dhabi,
United Arab emirates.
Member of AACSB Accreditation committee for King Talal Faculty of Business
and Technology (KTFBT) at PSUT.
Head of Committee for preparing the Eligibility Application for the AACSB
Accreditation at KTFBT.
Head of committee for preparation of the initial Self Evaluation Report (iSER)
for the AACSB accreditation at KTFBT.
11. Professional Certification
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Certified Customer Relationship Management Teacher, Grenoble Ecole De
Management / EuropeAid, Grenoble, France, September, 2004.
Microsoft Certified Professional ( MCP) / MS Visual C++ programming track,
2003.
12. Publications
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Journal Contribution
1. SAMMOUR, George; Bellemans, Tom; Vanhoof, Koen; Janssens, Davy &
Wets, Geert (2012). The usefulness of the sequence alignment methods in validating
rule-based models.
2.Published In: TRANSPORTATION, 39(4), p. 773-789. [Article - cat: A1].
3. SAMMOUR, George; Bellemans, Tom; Vanhoof, Koen; Janssens, Davy;
Kochan, Bruno & Wets, Geert (2012). The usefulness of the Sequence Alignment
Methods in validating rule-based activity-based forecasting models. Published In:
TRANSPORTATION, 39 (4), p. 773-789. [Article - cat: A1].
4. SCHREURS, Jeanne; GELAN, Anouk & SAMMOUR, George (2009). eLearning readiness in organisations. Case healthcare. Published In: International
Journal of Advanced Corporate Learning, 2(2). p. 34-39. [Article - cat: A1].
5. SCHREURS, Jeanne; Dalle, R. & SAMMOUR, George (2009). Authoring
systems delivering reusable learning objects. Published In: The International Journal
of Emerging Technologies in Learning, 4(Sp. Iss.). p. 37-42. [Article - cat: A1].
6. SCHREURS, Jeanne; Ehlers, Ulf & SAMMOUR, George (2008). E-learning
readiness analysis (ERA): An ehealth case study of e-learning readiness. Published
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In: International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 4(5). p. 496-508. [Article cat: A1 - Validation: vabb 2010].
7. SAMMOUR, George; SCHREURS, Jeanne; Al-Zoubi, A.Y. & VANHOOF,
Koen (2008). Knowledge management and e-learning in professional development.
Published In: International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 4(5). p. 465-477.
[Article - cat: A1 - Validation: vabb 2010].
8. Al-Zoubi, A.Y SAMMOUR, George, Qasem M Al-Zoubi, Utilization of Tablet
PCs in Electromagnetics Education, published in The International Journal of
Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET),, Vol 2, No 2 (2007) http://onlinejournals.org/i-jet/issue/view/6.
9. SAMMOUR, George, Elearning Systems Based on the Semantic Web, , published
in The International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), Vol1
No.1 (2006) http://online-journals.org/i-jet/issue/view/1.
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Books and Book Chapters
1. SAMMOUR, George & Debatista, M., Edited by: Dr. Dogac A. & Akay B, Ecommerce Solutions & Applications in Mediterranean Hotels, a case study,
Published in the book: Rising to the Digital Challenge: Lessons from
Mediterranean Enterprises, http://medforist.grenoble-em.com/Book1.htm ,
2005.
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Proceedings Paper
1. SAMMOUR, George; Bellemans, Tom; Vanhoof, Koen; Janssens, Davy &
Wets, Geert (2012). Usefulness of sequence alignment methods in valudating
rule-based activity-based models. In: TRB 91st Annual Meeting Compendium of
Papers DVD, p. 1-17. [Article - cat: C1].
2. SCHREURS, Jeanne; SAMMOUR, George & Dalle, R. (2009). Authoring
systems delivering reusable learning objects. In: The Fourth International
Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning. [cat: C1]
3. SAMMOUR, George; SCHREURS, Jeanne & VANHOOF, Koen (2009). Data
mining and marketing approach to track customer movements. In: Euromedia
‘2009. p. 5-9. [cat: C1 - Validation: ecoom 2010].
4. HUSTINX, W.; SCHREURS, Jeanne & SAMMOUR, George (2009).
Personalisation of E-learning courses. In: Euromedia ‘2009. p. 80-87.
[Conference Paper - cat: C1].
5. SAMMOUR, George; DEPAIRE, Benoit; VANHOOF, Koen & WETS, Geert
(2009). Identifying homogenous customer segments for low risk email marketing
experiments. In: José Cordeiro, Joaquim Filipe (Ed.) Proceedings of the 11th
International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. p. 89-94. [cat: C1].
6. SCHREURS, Jeanne; SAMMOUR, George & GELAN, Anouk (2009). Elearning readines in organisations, the case of hospitals. In: 8th International
Conference on Web-based Learning, ICWL, RWTH Aachen University August
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2009. [cat: C2].
7. SAMMOUR, George; SCHREURS, Jeanne; Al-Zoubi, A.Y. & VANHOOF,
Koen (2008). Knowledge management and e-learning in professional
development. In: Lytras, Miltiadis a.o. (Ed.) CCIS Series: The open knowledge
society; A computer Science and information systems manifesto. (CCIS Series)
[cat: C1].
8. SCHREURS, Jeanne; SAMMOUR, George & Ehlers, Ulf (2008). ERA- Elearning readiness analysis. A eHealth case study of e-learning readiness. In:
Lytras, M. & Carroll, J.M. & Damiani, E. & Avison, D. & Vossen, G. &
OrdonezDePablos, P. (Ed.) The Open Knowledge Society: A Computer Science
And Information Systems Manifesto. p. 267-275. (COMMUNICATIONS IN
COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, 19) [cat: C1 Validation: ecoom 2008].
9. SAMMOUR, George; SCHREURS, Jeanne; Zoubi, A.Y. & VANHOOF, Koen
(2008). Knowledge Management and eLearning in Professional Development. In:
Lytras, MD. & Carroll, JM. (Ed.) OPEN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY: A
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANIFESTO. p.
178-183. (COMMUNICATIONS IN COMPUTER AND INFORMATION
SCIENCE) [Proceedings Paper - cat: C1 - Validation: ecoom 2008].
10. SAMMOUR, George, Arafat Awajan, A PROPOSED QUALITY ASSURANCE
SYSTEM (QAS) FOR E-LEARNIG SOLUTIONS, The First International EBusiness Conference IEBC 2005 Tunisia, 23-25 June, 2005.
11. SAMMOUR, George. Qaryouti, M. shareef, K. Kaabneh, Heuristic Search on
Encrypted Data (HSED), The first international Conference on E-Business and ELearning (EBEL 05) Proceedings, P.240, 23-24 may 2005, Amman, Jordan.
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