The Institute of Tamazight Studies (ITS)

Born in Tripoli, Libya, Nasser Abouzakhar is the founder of ITS. Internet & Web security and management, natural language processing (NLP), quality assurance, international business and management, Tamazight studies, e-learning, e-Commerce, e-Democracy, e-Government or simply e-Everything are areas of his interest. His research papers, published in many internationl journals and conferences. Also, he is a reviewer for serveral international journals and conferences such as IEEE, GLOBECOM and ECIS. He was also a member of the Engineers Without Boarders (EWB) organisation at the University of Sheffield branch as a public relations officer. Nasser is a BCS (British Computer Society) chartered IT professional (CITP), chartered engineer (CEng) and chartered scientist (CSci). Also, he was awarded the PCHE (Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education) in Sept, 2003 from the University of Sheffield.

2008 To Present - Senior Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire - homepage
2006 To 2008 - Research Associate, the Univesity of Sheffield
2004 To 2006 - Lecturer in Internet Computing, the Univesity of Hull
2001 To 2004 - Teaching Tutor and PhD candidate, the University of Sheffield
1998 T0 2000 - Study in the UK
1995 To 1997 - Director of Mcyass - a family samll IT company, Tripoli
1991 To 1997 - Research Assistant at the Engineering Academy, Tripoli
 1987 To 1991 - Communications Eng in SOC (Sirt Oil Company)


Nasser S. Abouzakhar, PhD CITP CEng CSci
Director of Itran ITS
Email: N.Abouzakhar@itrane-university.net
 

Research Area:

  • Network and Web Security
  • Statistical-based Intrusion/Anomaly Detection Techniques
  • Computer Forensics

However, in ITS my research is focused on various areas related to Tamazight studies in terms of using technology to develop, analyze and solve language and media related research problems. For example, Natural Languaage Processing (NLP) using computing & statistical models such as Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions as well as corpora generation as follows:

  • Tamazight Language Processing
  • Tamazight Speech Recognition
  • Statistical-based NLP techniques
  • Computer Aided Language Teaching Tools
  • Tamazight Corpora Generation
  • Manuscript Digitization
  • Tifinagh Script Processing
  • Internet-based Media Technologies and Development

Professional Honour:

In 2003, awarded the Donn B Parker Award in London by the publisher Emerald as a result of the selection for his paper titled “An Intelligent Approach to Prevent Distributed Systems Attacks”. This paper is published at The Journal of Information Management and Computer Security (JIM&CS), Volume 10, Issue 5, October 2002, pp. 203 - 209. It has been selected as the most “Outstanding Paper” in the 2002 volume by Emerald Literati Club Awards for Excellence 2003, UK.

 

 

Gordon Manson, research project supervisor, appears on the left and in the middle, John Peters, Director: Research and Author Relations, Emerald (April, 2003).

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Nasser Abouzakhar, Ben Allison and Louise Guthrie, Unsupervised Learning-based Anomalous Arabic Text Detection, Language Resource Conference (LREC-08), 26-31 May 2008.

Nasser Abouzakhar, A Survey on Recent Research in Intelligent Intrusion Detection, submitted in OCT 2007 to the International Journal of Digital Evidence (IJDE).

Nasser S Abouzakhar and Gordon A. Manson, Evaluation of Intelligent Intrusion Detection Models, The International Journal of Digital Evidence, Volume 3, Issue 1, November 2004.

N S Abouzakhar and G Manson, Networks Security Measures using Neuro-fuzzy Agents, The Journal of Information Management and Computer Security, Volume 11, Issue 1, March 2003, pp. 33 – 38.

N S ABOUZAKHAR, A GANI, M ABUITBEL D KING, and G MANSON, Bayesian Learning Networks Approach to Cybercrime Detection, PGNet Conference, John Moore University, Liverpool, UK. 16 – 17th June 2003.

N. Abouzakhar, A. Gani, H. Mouratidis, G. Manson, M. Abuitbel and D King, Towards Intelligent and Secured Communication Networks, PREP Conference, Exeter, UK, 14-16 April, 2003.

N S Abouzakhar and G Manson, An Intelligent Approach to Prevent Distributed Systems Attacks, The Journal of Information Management and Computer Security, Volume 10, Issue 5, October 2002, pp. 203 - 209.

N S Abouzakhar, A Gani, E Sanchez, S Alhashmi, and G Manson, Towards Intelligent Fuzzy Agents to Dynamically Control the Resources Allocations for a Network under Denial of Service Attacks, PAGES (342-346), Recent Advances in Computers, Computing and Communications, Editors: N. Mastorakis and V. Mladenov, Electrical and Computer Engineering Series, Edited Book, ISBN: 960-8052-62-9, 2002, WSEAS Press.

Abdullah Gani, H. Mouratidis, N. Abouzakhar, and G. Manson, Developing an Intelligent User Manager System for Controlling Smart School Network Resources, The Malaysian Computer Science Journal, Volume 15, No 2, December 2002, pp. 56 – 69.

N. Abouzakhar, A. Gani, and G. Manson, Counteracting Network Distributed Attacks: An Intelligent Approach to Minimise the TCP/IP Protocol Threats using Agents Technology, Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP’ 2002), 3rd International Symposium, 15-17 July 2002, Stafford, UK

N. Abouzakhar, A. Gani, E. Sanchez, S. Alhashmi, and G. Manson, The Role of Intelligent Fuzzy Agents in Detecting and Automatically Responding to Networks Denial Of Service Attacks, PREP Conference, Nottingham, UK, 17-19 April, 2002

N S ABOUZAKHAR, M ABUITBEL D KING, and G MANSON, Maximizing the Information Storage in Advanced Multimedia Recording System using Intelligent Fuzzy Agent Scheme, PGNet Conference, John Moore University, Liverpool, UK. 17 – 18th June 2002

Mouratidis, H., Abouzakhar, N., and Gani, A. (2003). “Agent Based Assistants For Health and Social Care Professionals”, EPSRC Annual Postgraduate Research Conference in Electronics, Photonics, Communications and Network, and Computing Science, (Exeter, England, 14-16 April).

Gani, A., Mouratidis, H., Abouzakhar, N., and Manson, G. (2003) “Differential Access to Network Resources Using Intelligent Agents”, EPSRC Annual Postgraduate Research Conference in Electronics, Photonics, Communications and Network, and Computing Science, (Exeter, England, 14-16 April).

A Gani, N Abouzakhar, and Gordon Manson, UMAS Learning Requirement for Controlling Network Resources, The 16th International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Loughborough, UK, 13-26th June 2003

A Gani, N S Abouzakhar, H Mouratidis, R Aquino and G Manson, Intelligent Agents for Managing Smart School Network Resource, International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education (ICTE 2002) , Badajoz, Spain, 20-23 Nov 2002

A Gani, N S Abouzakhar, and G Manson. The Roles of Intelligent User Manager Agent for Controlling an Access to Network Resources, PostGraduate Networking Conference, John Moore University, Liverpool, UK. 17 – 18th June 2002

HE Related Conference Papers

Fathi S. Abouzakhar and Nasser S. Abouzakhar (2008), Presentations and Skills in Teaching - Engineering Laboratory, 7th ASEE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education, Cape Town, South Africa, 19 – 23 October 2008.


N S Abouzakhar, A Gani, H Mouratidis, G Manson, and P Simons, The Role of the Virtual University in Enhancing Teaching and Learning Practices in Higher Education, International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education (ICTE 2002) , Badajoz, Spain, 20-23 Nov 2002


Fathi Salem Abouzakhar, Nasser Salem Abouzakhar and Abdullah Gani, Confusion between Presentation and Education, International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education (ICTE 2002), Badajoz, Spain, 20-23 Nov 2002


A. Gani, N. Abouzakhar, and G. Manson, Using Intelligent Multi Agents in Managing Smart School Networks, in the Conference of Computer and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2002) , IASTED, Cancun, Mexico, 20-22 May, 2002


Haralambos Mouratidis, Raul Aquino, Nasser Abouzakhar, Abdullah Gani, and Gordon Manson, Testing Agent Technology in the Development of Intelligent Educational Systems. International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education (ICTE 2002), Badajoz, Spain, 20-23 Nov 2002