User:Alkhatib

His career encompassed teaching, research, training, consulting, professional development in the United States, the Gulf region, and Jordan. With over 75 publications, his research appeared in second tier indexed journals, and conferences proceedings spanning almost all continents at prestigious conferences sponsored by IEEE, ACM, Software Engineering Institute (CMU) – Software Process Improvement, and Association of Information Systems. Adapting a multidisciplinary approach to research, his areas of interests include integration of business and information technologies, such as knowledge management, decision support system, expert system, simulation, portal technology, workflow management/time management/database integration, eGovernment/services, eCommerce, data bases, analysis and design, creative thinking processes, team organization, ERP implementation strategies, and CRM. Other areas cover Web services, agent technologies, business intelligence, data analytics (data mining, statistical knowledge discovery, and visualization), software engineering integrating agile methods with CMMI, and software metrics. His consulting activities included the development of an Integrated IT strategic plan with business processes for a major construction company, a major manufacturing company, and a major newspaper. In the areas of professional development include Scientific Committee Chairs, track chairs, and program committee membership in a host of conferences: local, regional and international conferences. In the areas of training activities, he conducted several training programs for major IT department heads in Washington DC and the Gulf in database administration, software quality, IT project management, eCommerce models and applications, Computer-Aided Software Engineering, and Requirements Engineering. Dr. Alkhatib is the founder and Editor-in-Chief since 2006 of the International Journal of IT and Web Engineering indexed by Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) of Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters), SCOPUS, ACM and others. He is also the Editor of book series in Advances in Web Technologies and Engineering (AWTE) with 20 Volumes, and a member of the Academic Advisory Board at IGI Global publishing, USA.