Dr. Ahmed Tawfik

 Faculty of Management and Information Systems
 Department of Information Systems
 Ph.D. University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 1997
 M.Sc. University of Nebraska, USA, 1992
 B.Sc. of Electronics and Telecommuncations Engineering, Cairo University, 1988

 E-Mail: ahmed.tawfik AT ufe.edu.eg
 Tel. extension: 2055
 Room : 113

Short Biography

Dr Ahmed Tawfik is an Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing at the French University in Egypt. Prior to joining the UFE, he has held academic positons in Canada and in Egypt and he has taught courses in Computer Science and in Computer Engineering. His research interests include intelligent systems, multi-agent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and knowledge discovery. Recently, he has also been looking at energy efficient computing issues.

Teaching Activities

 Discrete Mathematics
 Informatics 2
 Introduction to Algorithmic Problem Solving

Current Research Activities

 Member of the Technical Program Committee of RoboCup Symposium 2010.
 Member of the Technical Program Committee of the Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI’2010).
 Member of the Technical Program Committee of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) on the Theory and Practice of Artificial Intellignce (IFIP-AI’2010).

Some Recent Publications

 2010

Surprise-based Qualitative Probability Calculus II
Zina Ibrahim, Ahmed Y. Tawfik, and Alioune Ngom Proceedings of the Twenty-third FLAIRS International Conference, 2010.

 2009

Qualitative Motif Detection in Gene Regulatory Networks
Zina Ibrahim, Ahmed Y. Tawfik, and Alioune Ngom in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine(BIBM’09), IEEE Press.
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Context Evolution in Conceptual Spaces
Marwa F. Khater and Ahmed Y. Tawfik. in Proceedings of the Twenty-first IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI’2009), IEEE Press.
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Meeting Scheduling Assembles Children in the Rectangular Forest
Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Hijaz Al-Ani Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT’09), pp. 445-449, IEEE Press, 2009.
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Surprise-based Qualitative Probabilistic Networks
Zina Ibrahim, Ahmed Y. Tawfik, and Alioune Ngom, in Symbolic and Qualitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, Tenth European Conference (ECSQARU’2009), pp. 228-239, Springer LNAI, 2009.
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Surprise-based Qualitative Probability Calculus
Zina Ibrahim, Ahmed Y. Tawfik, and Alioune Ngom, in Proceedings of the Twenty-second FLAIRS International Conference, pp. 573-574, AAAI Press, 2009.
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 2008

Using Causal Knowledge to Guide Retrieval and Adaptation in Case-based Reasoning about Dynamic Processes
Christopher Tighe and Ahmed Y. Tawfik, International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 271-281, 2008.

Integrating Causal Knowledge in Case-based Retrieval: Causal Decomposition of Cases
Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Nasr Kasrin,
in Proceedings of the Thirteenth UK Workshop on Case Based Reasoning (UKCBR-2008), pp. 44-53, 2008.

Qualitative Hidden Markov Models for Classifying Gene Expression Data
Zina Ibrahim, Ahmed Y. Tawfik, and Alioune Ngom
in Proceedings of AI-2008 Twenty-eighth SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge UK, pp.47-60, December 2008.

Modeling the Spread of Preventable Diseases: Social Culture and Epidemiology
Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Rana R. Farag
in Proceedings of IFIP AI 2008: The Theory and Practice of AI, pp.277-286, 2008.