Submissions from 2025
AI Security in Contactless Payments and Education: A Review, Ahmed Hamed, Yojna Bansal, Mostafa Mohamad, Angel Jimenez-Aranda, and Tarek Gaber
An asymmetrical pilot resilience model – fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, Catherine Prentice, Maneerat Tianchai, Susan Zeidan, and Xuequn Wang
A study of the privacy paradox amongst young adults in the United Arab Emirates, Lena Yuryna Connolly, Michael Lang, and Justin Giboney
Bacteria-Induced Self-Healing Concrete: A Critical Review for the Construction Industries, Peerzada Danish, Jasir Mushtaq, Towseef Ahmed Gilani, and Imen Ben Salem
Chemical Hyperstructures For Neptunium, Rubidium, And Plutonium, Fakhry Asad Agusfrianto, Mariam Hariri, and Yudi Mahatma
Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Learning and Decision-Making in Engineering Students, Ranpreet Kaur, Sonali Prasad Dharmadhikari, Hrishikesh Bhagat, Aakash Yadav, Yogesh Gurav, and Sayed M. Eldebeky
Flooding the vote: Heterogeneous voting responses to a natural disaster in Germany, K. Peren Arin, Kevin Devereux, Joel Methorst, and Marcel Thum
Green-synthesized amino-rich carbon quantum dots: A dual-function platform for fluorescent detection of heavy metals and degradation of malachite green dye, Jalwa Anum, Muhammad Arslan Akhtar, Asad Muhammad Khan, Khalid Ahmed, Christie M. Sayes, Ali Madi Almajwal, Jibran Iqbal, and Abdur Rahim
How GenAI Transforms Computer Engineering Education: The Case of the Middle East and North Africa, Mostafa Mohamad, Dababrata Chowdhury, Christopher Russell, Ali Balikel, and Peter Kawalek
Hybrid Attention-Enhanced CNNs for Small Object Detection in Mammography, CT, and Fundus Imaging, Hewa Majeed Zangana, Marwan Omar, Shuai Li, Jamal N. Al-Karaki, and Anik Vega Vitianingsih
Machine Learning-Based Electric Vehicle Charging Demand Forecasting: A Systematized Literature Review, Maher Alaraj, Mohammed Radi, Elaf Alsisi, Munir Majdalawieh, and Mohamed Darwish
Optimizing fire detection in remote sensing imagery for edge devices: A quantization-enhanced hybrid deep learning model, Syed Muhammad Salman Bukhari, Nadia Dahmani, Sujan Gyawali, Muhammad Hamza Zafar, Filippo Sanfilippo, and Kiran Raja
Predicting Students’ Academic Performance Using Correlation and Regression Analysis, Rukiya Deetjen-Ruiz, Ivana Roncevic, Roman Bandurin, Ashot Gevorgyan, Irina Nikolaeva, and Mareks Parfjonovs
Shaping The Future of Engineering Education Through Artificial Intelligence and Innovation, Anuj Kumar, Purvi Pujari, Sayed M. Eldebeky, and Rajani H. Pillai
Sustainable Purpose- and Passionpreneurship: New-Age Lifestyle or a Necessity for Sustainable Development?, Veronika Pereseina
What Can Student Perspectives Tell Us About the Value of Multicultural Counselling Training? A Q Methodology Study, Mustafa Aydogan
DDoS attack detection in Edge-IIoT digital twin environment using deep learning approach, Feras Al-Obeidat, Adnan Amin, Ahmed Shuhaiber, and Inam ul Haq
Enhancing reliable and energy-efficient UAV communications with RIS and deep reinforcement learning, Wasim Ahmad, Umar Islam, Abdulkadhem A. Abdulkadhem, Babar Shah, Fernando Moreira, and Ali Abbas
Consecrated Lives: Life Story Memories of Monks and Nuns Compared to the General Population, Tabea Wolf and Christin Camia
Climate Crises and the Future of Conflicts in Africa: A Case Study of the Horn of Africa, Hamdy A. Hassan
Tourism Case Studies Middle East & North Africa (MENA) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Regions, Naomi Moswete and Paolo Mura
Implementing Responsible AI: A Life-Cycle Reference Model Based on Fates Principles, Ravishankar Sharma, Samia Loucif, and Aijaz A. Shaikh
Balancing act: Corporate governance and biodiversity conservation in extractive sector, Ammad Ahmed, Hoa Luong, and Abiot Tessema
Tropical-extratropical interactions: the atmospheric dynamics behind Dubai's extreme precipitation in April 2024, Muhammad Latif, Muhammad Usman, Abdul Malik, Sateesh Masabathini, Burhan Ahmad, Luqman Atique, Fatima Alhammadi, and Ibrahim Hoteit
Impact of Ramadan Intermittent Fasting on Cardiovascular Health and Disease, Huma Naqeeb, Iftikhar Alam, Sharifa AlBlooshi, and Falak Zeb
Navigating AI Ethics Through the Lens of Personality Traits and Well-Being: Policy Recommendations for Young People in the UAE, Areej ElSayary
Talking Tech in Education: A Systematic Review of Chatbot Evaluation, Methods, Communication Modalities, and Impact, Ons Al-Shamaileh, Omar Mubin, and Nishara Nizamuddin
AI in Education: Early Detection of Mental Health Challenges for Inclusive and Supportive Learning, Efthymia Efthymiou, Soultana Papadopoulou, Dimitra V. Katsarou, Evangelos Mantsos, Maria Sofologi, Alexandros Argyriadis, Kalliopi Megari, and Agathi Argyriadi
‘I’m Maitha! You’re Abdalla, okay?’: role play as a site of agency, cognitive, and multilingual development, Fatma F.S. Said
Crisis leadership: forged in adversity, led by foresight, Christina Nizamidou
Artificial intelligence integration and teachers' self-efficacy in physics classrooms, Fouad Yehya, Areej ElSayary, Ghadah Al Murshidi, and Ahmed Al Zaabi
A Systematic Review of School-Based Behavioral Interventions and the Symbolic Labor of Inclusion for Children with Chronic Illness, Efthymia Efthymiou, Dimitra V. Katsarou, Maria Sofologi, Kalliopi Megari, Soultana Papadopoulou, Evangelos Mantsos, and Salma Daiban
CheatGuard: A cybersecurity inspired anti-cheating platform for higher education, Imran Taj, Sifan Waktole Dadi, Ahmed Samer Wazan, Romain Laborde, and Abdulhadi Shoufan
City-Level Employee Education, Workplace Environment, And Audit Fees, Christo Karuna, Mehdi Khedmati, Ali Sheikhbahaei, and Mohammed Aminu Sualihu
Enabling sustainable and resilient supply chain expansion through technological advancements: Corporate policy insights from the Gulf petrochemical industry, Issam Krimi, Tarik Saikouk, Ismail Badraoui, and Ziyad Bahou
Enhancing pro-environmental behavior in tourism: Integrating attitudinal factors and Norm Activation Theory, Amjad Abu Elsamen, Anestis Fotiadis, Ali Abdallah Alalwan, and Tzung Cheng Huan
From Waste to Solution: Modeling and Characterization of Grape Seed Bio-Waste for Phosphate Removal from Wastewater, Abeer Al-Bsoul, Zakaria Al-Qodah, Muhammad Tawalbeh, Khalid Bani-Melhem, Khalideh Al bkoor Alrawashdeh, Mohammad Hailat, Ahmed A. Al-Taani, and Eid Gul
Greening the Virtual: An Interdisciplinary Narrative Review on the Environmental Sustainability of the Metaverse, Mousa Al-kfairy
Investigating the impact of global events on cryptocurrency performance: a big data event study approach, Efstathios Polyzos and Layal Youssef
Properties of a Class of Analytic Functions Associated With Exponentially Convex Functions, K. R. Karthikeyan, Elangho Umadevi, G. Thirupathi, and Dharmaraj Mohankumar
The Role of Managerial Support in Influencing the Attitudes of Highly Educated Millennials in Serbia, Dimitrije Gasic, Vladimir Dzenopoljac, Mladen Cudanov, Jozsef Poor, and Nemanja Berber
Trends in the use of non-nutritive sweeteners among female university students in the United Arab Emirates, Dalia Haroun, Aseel Ehsanallah, and Wafa Mubarak
UAV-supported communication: Current and prospective solutions, Moayad Aloqaily, Ouns Bouachir, and Ismaeel Al Ridhawi
Youth Attitudes Towards the Effects of Social Media Addiction A Study on University Students in the United Arab Emirates, Fokiya Akhtar and Fawzia Abdulla Alali
Towards Responsible Ai Journalism: Mapping Journalists' Perceptions Of Ai Ethics, Donghee Shin, Shuhua Zhou, and Azmat Rasul
Between Tradition and Transition: Generational Differences in Emirati Life Stories and Life Scripts, Christin Camia
Assessing the adversarial robustness of multimodal medical AI systems: insights into vulnerabilities and modality interactions, Ekaterina Mozhegova, Asad Masood Khattak, Adil Khan, Roman Garaev, Bader Rasheed, and Muhammad Shahid Anwar
Modeling Glucose-Insulin Dynamics with Delay Differential Equations, Fathalla A. Rihan, K. Udhayakumar, M. Naim Anwar, and Mutaz Mohammad
Oil in Los Angeles: Tenable Futures from Extractive Pasts, Oorvi Sharma
Two origins of the winter subsidence in and around the Arabian Peninsula, Muhammad Usman and Kosuke Heki
Multivariable optimal control for hemodialysis: A physiologically-grounded simulation study, Redemtus Heru Tjahjana, Ratna Herdiana, Zani Anjani H.S.M. Rafsanjani, and Yogi Ahmad Erlangga
A Comprehensive Deep Learning System With MGRF Modeling for Predicting Breast Cancer Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy, Ahmed Sharafeldeen, Fatma Taher, Norah Saleh Alghamdi, Eman Alnaghy, Reham Alghandour, Khadiga M. Ali, Sameh Shamaa, Abdelrahman Gamal, Mohammed Ghazal, Sohail Contractor, and Ayman El-Baz
The Antisystemic Gaze: An Analysis of YouTubers’ Counternarratives of Iran, Pooya Saeidi Motahar, Rokhshad Tavakoli, and Paolo Mura
Forensic Examination of iOS Platform Artifacts: A Comparative Multi-Tool Study Using Publicly Available Data, Muhannad AlBreiki, Faisal Alazemi, Niyat Seghid, Azka Wani, and Farkhund Iqbal
Mapping Industry Demands for Digital Forensics: A Study of Penetration Tester Requirements, Pragya Kaushik, Faheem Ullah, and Muhammad Imran Taj
PViT: A Hybrid Model for Deepfake Face Detection using Patch Vision Transformers and Deep Learning, Iqra Ambreen, Muhammad Aatif, Zunera Jalil, Farkhund Iqbal, and Andrew Marrington
Strengthening Security in Pharmaceutical Healthcare: Harnessing Blockchain for Reliable Detection of Counterfeit Drugs and Mitigating Dispensing Errors, Rana Hassam Ahmed, Majid Hussain, Ashraf Khalil, and Samraiz Zahid
Unlocking Digital Evidence Utilizing Save Wizard for PS4 in Forensic Analysis, Hamed Alawadhi, Belal AlGhafri, Niyat Habtom, and Farkhund Iqbal
What drives weight status among female university students? A machine learning analysis of sociodemographic, dietary, and lifestyle determinants, Radwan Qasrawi, Abir Ajab, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Ayesha Al Dhaheri, Sharifa Alblooshi, Razan Abu Ghoush, Stephanny Vicuna Polo, Malak Amro, Suliman Thwib, Ghada Issa, and Haleama Al Sabbah
Effect Of Vitamin D Supplementation On Human Gut Microbiota: A Systematic Review Of Randomized Controlled Trials, Falak Zeb, Tareq Osaili, Mona Hashim, Nadia Alkalbani, Dimitrios Papandreou, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Farah Naja, Hadia Radwan, Hayder Hasan, Reyad Shakir Obaid, Ioannis Savvaidis, Sharifa Alblooshi, and Iftikhar Alam
First national study on genomic profiling of Escherichia coli in United Arab Emirates (UAE) aquatic environments shows diverse Quinolone and Cephalosporin resistance, A. Papadopoulou, C. A. Moubareck, D. Ryder, A. L. Powell, M. Stone, A. W. Joseph, M. A. Khan, E. Light, D. W. Verner-Jeffreys, J. H. Stahl, and W. J.F. Le Quesne
Building Trust in AI Voice Assistants: Exploring the Role of Security, Information Quality, and Social Influence in the Telecommunications Industry, Mousa Al-Kfairy, Ahmed Al-Adaileh, and Dheya Mustafa
Determinants of Russia’s probability of default: evidence from domestic and global indicators, Mohamed M. Sraieb, Shahnawaz Muhammed, Vladimir Dženopoljac, and Samet Gunay
Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in the UAE: Preserving Emirati Crafts Through Digital Innovation, Jacqueline Soghman and Alya Almansoori
The role of emotional intelligence in enhancing organizational resilience: Examining the moderating impact of transformational leadership, Abdallah Q. Bataineh, Mohammad Alhur, Dhia Qasim, and Ahmed Shuhaiber
Vitamin K and women's health: a review, Sharifa AlBlooshi
Marine heatwaves select for thermal tolerance in a reef-building coral, E. J. Howells, D. Abrego, S. Schmidt-Roach, E. Puill-Stephan, H. Denis, S. Harii, L. K. Bay, J. A. Burt, K. Monro, and M. Aranda
The impact of entrepreneurial orientation on innovation performance: the role of knowledge sharing as a mediating factor, Dhia Qasim, Ahmed Shuhaiber, and Zainab Rawshdeh
Catching them young! A comparative study of teacher retention among beginning teachers in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, Maxwell Peprah Opoku, Ghadah Morshedi, Negmeldin Alsheikh, Bernadette M. Guirguis, Ashraf Mustafa, Enas Mohamed Abdullah, Fatima Alrashdi, and Ahmed El-Laithy
Innovative desalination strategies for the removal of emerging pollutants in aquatic systems, Shamshad Khan, Jibran Iqbal, Cai Deng, Xiang Wenjing, and Hrachuhi Galstyan
Evaluation of Online, Hybrid and Face-to-Face Learning Modes: Undergraduate Students' Perceptions in the UAE, Maryam Al-Ali and Dina Tbaishat
Exploring Reflective Practices in Blended Learning: A Deep Dive into Educators’ In-Action and On-Action Perspectives in Interdisciplinary Courses, Areej ElSayary, Suha Karaki, and Rawia Ahmed
Quadruped Robots and Canine Likeness: The Uncanny Valley Effect, Carolina Velasco, Patrick C.K. Hung, Farkhund Iqbal, Hamda Al Breiki, and Hao An Tseng
Exploring User Intention to Use Generative AI in Music Composition: An SEM-ANN Methodology, Said A. Salloum, Khadija Alhumaid, Rose A. Aljanada, Aseel M. Alfaisal, Afrah Alsharafi, and Raghad Alfaisal
An action research study on AI video vs. written feedback: enhancing undergraduate academic writing and critical thinking, Sandra Baroudi, Nida Mubeen, and Suha Karaki
Building the Belt and Road Initiative in the Arab World: China’s Middle East Math, Jonathan Fulton
Spatio-Temporal EV Task Offloading, Energy, and Traffic Management for 6G Communication-Power-Transportation Coupling Network, Chao Pan, Ziming Li, Haoyu Ci, Haijun Liao, Zhenyu Zhou, Anwer Al-Dulaimi, and Muhammad Tariq
Artificial intelligence and customer-centric marketing in driving sustainable business in the digital age, Arshi Naim, Praveen Kumar Malik, Hesham Magd, Ahmad Yahya Moustafa Shaheen, Mostafa Mohamad, and Raghavan Srinivasan
A Lightweight Deep Learning Model for Retinopathy of Prematurity Classification in eHealth Applications, Neazmul Mowla, Md Najmul Mowla, Khaled Rabie, and Belal Alsinglawi
Message from the IWCMC 2025 Program Chairs, Abderrahmane Lakas, Ouns Bouachir, and Amjad Gawanmeh
Opinion: Job alert: AI is already doing some of HR's work but could it do it all?, Martin Sposato
A comparative study of machine learning and deep learning models in binary and multiclass classification for intrusion detection systems, Ayesha Alharthi, Meera Alaryani, and Sanaa Kaddoura
Beyond Chatbots: The Emergence of Autonomous AI Agents in Libraries, Nikesh Narayanan
Black magic for concrete: Using biomass and industrial by-products to create innovative sustainable construction materials, Vasilia Al Khaldi and Abdel Hamid I. Mourad
Bridging knowledge gaps in digital forensics using unsupervised explainable AI, Zainab Khalid, Farkhund Iqbal, and Mohd Saqib
Celebrity Politics: Construction and Validation of a Scale to Measure the Political Influence of Celebrities, Azmat Rasul and Donghee Shin
Digital Stress Scale (DSC): Development and Psychometric Validation of a Measure of Stress in the Digital Age, Agathi Argyriadi, Dimitra Katsarou, Athina Patelarou, Kalliopi Megari, Evridiki Patelarou, Stiliani Kotrotsiou, Konstantinos Giakoumidakis, Shabnam Abdoola, Evangelos Mantsos, Efthymia Efthymiou, and Alexandros Argyriadis
Web-based systems in HR: a guide to digital transformation in organizations, Martin Sposato, Eduardo Carlos Dittmar, and Jenny Patricia Vargas Portillo
Positioning regenerative tourism within tourism qualitative research a methodological inquiry, Paolo Mura
Repair Strategies in an English as a Foreign Language Online Educational Setting: A Case Study of Higher Education Studies, Sana Butti Al Maktoum, Basma Abri, and Bernadette M. Guirguis
The Future of Foreign Language Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Critical Analysis of Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities, Ahmad Aljanadbah, Rashid Hamad Al Marri, and Hamad Mubarak Almarri
A Bio-Inspired Smart Home: AI-Driven Adaptive Energy Management with Edge Computing, Blockchain Security, and Self-Powered IoT Sensors, Ahmed Shuhaiber
Beyond the Like Button: Predicting How Risks Impact Trust on Instagram S-Commerce, Ahmed Shuhaiber
Foreign direct investment and money laundering in the UAE: implications for research and practice, Tareq Na’el Al-Tawil and Nayel AlOmran
LLM-Based Semantic Communication: The Way From Task-Originated To General, Mingkai Chen, Zhende Sun, Xitao He, Lei Wang, and Anwer Al-Dulaimi
Azide-Functionalized Mesoporous Silica SBA-15 for Sustainable Catalysis and Biological Applications, Asma Dahoui Kralfa, Samia Gharbi, Aouicha Benmaati, Bouhadjar Boukoussa, Ismail Issam, Jibran Iqbal, Shashikant P. Patole, Thierry Constantieux, and Hadjira Habib Zahmani
Association of anthropometric indices with rs9939609 FTO gene polymorphism among overweight/obese women with breast cancer: a case-control study, Huma Naqeeb, Bismillah Sehar, Sami Siraj, Ali Madi Almajwal, Bibi Hajira, Moez Al Islam Faris, Sharifa AlBlooshi, Ali Saad R. Alsubaie, Mahpara Safdar, Iftikhar Alam, and Falak Zeb
Relationality and Learning: Insights from Undergraduate Student Research Assistant Experiences, Hana Shahin, Mazna Patka, Mustafa Aydogan, Ayesha Al Ali, Meera Bin Thalith, and Saeed Alhemeiri