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14 April 2011: Keynote talk at 7th International Conference on Electrical and Electronic Engineering (JIEEEC). I received the Plaque of the Jordan Engineering
Association!
30 March 2011: CEMAS official launch by the Deputy First Minister of Wales.
See Photos!
02 February 2011: Birthday present: I got my Post Graduate Diploma in
Management (PGD Management) from Glamorgan Business School. I have done 6
modules on the MBA, as well.
26 Jan 2011: I gave a talk on Software Alliance Wales on Service
Based Communications and the Vision of CEMAS.
17 Jan 2011: Interviewed
by Nick Servini in
“Wales at Work” on BBC Radio Wales. Listen!
10 Jan 2011: The Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) announces the establishment of CEMAS. Articles on the
announcement appear in BBC
Wales website and many other technology online
magazines.
07 Jan 2011: Advances Wales magazine publishes an article on LiveGuard product of my Company Glamex
Security Ltd.
2 Dec 2010: New
e-mail address
kbegain [at] computer.org
Nov 2010: Preparation
for NGMAST’11
in Cardiff on 14-16 September 2011 has started. We are again fortunate to have Nokia’s
sponsorship and Petros Belimpasakis
(Nokia Research Centre) will be Programme Co-chair.
08 September 2010: 
The EuroSim Board
anonymously votes on my appointment as The President of the Federation of European
Simulation Societies
for the period 2010-2013.
07 August 2010: The
Alghad Newspaper (Jordan) publishes a report about me
(http://www.alghad.com/?news=522152) .
30 July 2010: Great Success: my proposal for the
Centre of Excellence for Mobile Applications and Services has been approved by
the Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO) with a budget of £5 million for 5
years.
27 July 2010: NGMAST 2010 Conference Opened in Amman under the Patronage of Her Royal
Highness Princess Sumaya of Jordan. The conference
was a great success. (www.ngmast.com)
06 May 2010: Congratulations
to Dr. Belal Ahuhaija who
defended his PhD entitled “A Simulation
Framework for Service Continuity over Multi Access Wireless Networks” under my supervision.
05 May 2010: New Book: the new edition of the ASMTA conference book has been published by
Springer Verlag as part of the prestigious Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series. See Cover here.
20 March 2010: Preparations
for NGMAST2010
in Amman on track
expecting exceptional programme. Http://www.ngmast.com/.
10 February 2010: Appointment Confirmed: The Executive Board has approved my appointment
as the next EuroSim (The Federation of European
Simulation Societies) President during the first ever UK Presidency of
EUROSIM 2010-1013. This means I will be the President of the Federation of
European National Societies on Modelling and Simulation as well as host of the EuroSim Congress in Cardiff in 2013. The position will be
taken during the EuroSim Congress in Prague in
September 2010. (News in Details)
3-5 December 2009: I participated in the EU-Med
meeting in Amman, Jordan hosted by The Royal Scientific Society. During the 3
days visit, I had meetings with:
1.
HE Basem Rousan, Minister of Information and Communications
Technology
2. Dr. Ahmed
Hiasat, CEO of Telecommunications
Regulatory Commission in Jordan
3. BG Reda Btoush, Deputy Director of
the National Centre for Security and Crisis Management.
What a visit!!!
15-18 September 2009: NGMAST’09
has
been a great success again. 100 participants with 0 no shows.
10
September 2009: My new spinout company Glamex Security Ltd
started the development of the “Live
Guard” system. I am currently the CEO of the company.
1 September
2009: My book : “IMS: Deployment and Development Perspectives” is published by John Wiley & Sons today.
14 July 2009: A Proud Day: Three of my PhD students
graduated today: Firas Albalas,
Chitra Balakrishna, and Suleiman Yerima.
Congratulations to all. This makes the number of PhD completion 7 in 12 months
plus one MPhil.
27 March 2009: Nominated to Lead the UK Presidency
of EUROSIM 2010-1013. This means I will be the President of the Federation of
European National Societies on Modelling and Simulation as well as host of the Eurosim Congress in Cardiff in 2013.
21 March 2009: Invited to deliver the keynote talk
at The International Conference on Computational Intelligence,
Modelling and Simulation CSSim2009, Brno, Czech Republic on 7-9 September 2009.
March 2009: Appointed as “Cardiff Ambassador” by Cardiff & Co. to promote
Cardiff as a Capital of conferences.
10 March 2009: Inaugural Professorial Lecture (about five years late). Title: ”Service Science, Service based-communications: Research and
Business”, Glamorgan Business Centre,
6-8 pm.
28 February 2009: The manuscript of the book entitled: “IMS: Deployment and Development Perspectives” to be published by John Wiley & Sons in September 2009 has been
submitted today.
16-19 September 2008: NGMAST’08 has been a great success. 120 participants and leading keynote speakers
such as Henry Tirri, Vice President of Nokia Research
Centre.
5-8 June 2008: ECMS/ASMTA2008 was a great success in Cyprus. Record numbers and ASMTA proceedings
published with Springer Verlag for the first time.
13 November 2007: Invited to Orange VIP table on the
IET Innovation Award Ceremony in Marriot Hotel at Grosvenor Square, London.
Around the table were: FT VP Research, Managing Director, CTO and the Head of Research
in Orange Labs UK in addition to Dean of EE, UCL.
12 November 2007: Invited Lecture at France
Telecom-Orange Labs Webinar entitled “Service Science” in Chiswick, London.
11-14 September 2007: NGMAST’07 has been a great success.
15 May 2007: I have been invited to join a Welsh
Assembly Government ICT Special Interest Group subcommittee on “Future and
Horizons”. The remit of the subcommittee is to advise WAG on the future of
telecoms.
18 January 1007: I have been invited to deliver
the Keynote Speech at the “After 5” event on Mobility in London which is organised by
International Business Wales and Intellect (The Trade Association of UK
hi-tech Industry).
22 November 2006: Preparations started for the International Conference and Exhibition
on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST’07) to
be held in Cardiff on 12-14 September 2007. I am the General Chair of the
conference.
26 October 2006: I have been invited to deliver the Keynote Speech
at the First Annual European Cantata Technology User Conference held on 25 – 27 October 2006, in the
beautiful location of Malta. This is a premier, “must attend” event for
all Cantata developer customers – carriers and enterprises alike.
24 October 2006: Royal recognition for scientific contributions: Her Majesty The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have given a reception
in Buckingham Palace on the evening of 24th October 2006
to recognise the contribution of more than 500 British scientists. I was invited as one of the recognised
scientists!
July 2006:
Invitation to join the Editorial Board of the International Journal on
Modelling and Simulation in Engineering, Hindawi
Publishing House, USA..
30 May 2006: I have been elected as the Chairman of the
European Council for Modelling and Simulation in the Annual General Meeting of the
Council which was held in Bonn, Germany.
25 September 2005: I have been invited to be a member
of the EPSRC Peer Review College for the period 2006-2009.
07 July 2005: The Saddest day: I was in LONDON on
this very sad day. I witnessed the horror of terrorism personally. I still
cannot understand how people can be so inhuman, cruel and criminal! I can only
thank God for being able to write these lines.
06 July 2005: Appointment as Adjunct Professor at ECU
accepted and confirmed!
01 July 2005: 
GREAT HONOUR: I have
been offered an Adjunct Professorship by the Edith Cowan University, Perth,
Australia in recognition of scientific Excellence.
20 April 2005: I have been appointed as International Board
Member of the Centre of Excellence for MicroPhotonic Systems (COMPS),
Edith Cowan University, Australia.
16 April 2005: I have been granted the British
Computer Society Fellow (FBCS) status and the Chartered IT Professional (CITP) title by
invitation!
April 2005: MoCoNet has
been granted £265K for the establishment of new state-of-art labs:
1.
Wireless Application Lab
2.
MicroPhotonics Test Lab
18 April 2005: Deadline for the CR papers for ASMTA2005
7 April 2005:
I have been elected by The Steering
Committee of the UK Society of Modelling and Simulation to the General Chair of the 2006
International Conference on Modelling and Simulation to be held in Oxford in
April 2006.
12 February
2005: Invitation to join the Editorial Board of the Journal of Communications
Software and Systems (JCOMSS).
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06 January
2005: I have been invited to be member of the Management Committee of the IEEE
UK&RI Computer Chapter as Wales Representative.
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14 Dec. 2004:
Guest Editors: I Awan and K. Al-Begain: approval obtained for Special Issue of
the International Journal of Wireless
Information Networks on Performance Modelling of Wireless and Mobile
Networks, Kluwer.
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14 Dec.
2004: Guest Editors: I Awan and K.
Al-Begain: approval obtained for Special Issue of the International Journal of
Computer and System Sciences (JCSS) on Performance Modelling of Wired/Wireless
System and Networks, Elsevier.
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14 Dec.
2004: Four new conference committee
memberships. Check full list
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Royal Academy of Engineering/Vodafone Group Grants to host two
distinguished professors as follows:
Prof. Kamal Alameh, Microphotonic
Communications, Cowan Edith University, Australia (Grant: £6,800) 03-31 January
2005.
Prof.
Alexander Dudin, Queueing Theory and modelling of
mobile systems, Belarus State University, Belarus (Grant: £6,200) 01-28 March
2005.
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The Mobile
Computing and Networking Research Group and the School of Computing are now members
of The Wireless University Forum (TWUF)
sponsored by Vodafone and Orange. We are among the first to join. I am also
member of the experts’ panel of TWUF.
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The MSc. in Mobile Computing has been
successfully launched. Additionally, our
mobile computing lab has been set up jointly at the moment with the networking
lab.
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The webpage of the 12th International Conference on Analytical and
Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications (ASMTA'05), Riga,
Latvia, 01-04 June, 2005 has been updated.
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The webpage
of the 1st International Workshop on Performance Modelling of Wired, Wireless and
Mobile Networking and Computing as part of IC PADS2005, Japan 22-25 July 2005 is on
now.
