Dr Akeel Al-Attar

Akeel holds a B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering and a PhD in Telecommunications, both from the University of Leeds England - UK. Since co-founding XpertRule Software in 1985, Akeel has been actively involved in the design, development and application of knowledge based systems and data mining technologies. Akeel's early work was in collaboration with Professor Donald Michie of the Turing Institute, Glasgow - Scotland. Akeel has published a number of papers on machine learning and knowledge engineering, and has given seminars and lectures in the United States, South America, Europe, Japan, the Middle East and Africa.

Akeel is one of the most experienced practitioners in the application of intelligent technologies and has been directly involved in the implementation of over 60 successful projects in the UK and Japan in the areas of financial services, process industries and manufacturing. These projects have used the technologies of knowledge based systems, data mining and genetic algorithm optimization of resources. Clients have included Rolls Royce, United Distillers & Vintners, Hibernian, Bradford and Bingley Building Society, Meiji Life Insurance, Mars, Channel 4 TV, Ericsson and three of the top UK Banks.

Publications by Akeel Al-Attar PhD CEng

[1] Al-Attar, A. (1986) 'Bilingual Expert System Shells', Proceedings of the 6th Gulf Computer Conference on Cost effective Computing. 4th & 5th November 1986, Dubai - UAE.

[2] Al-Attar, A. (1990) 'Knowledge Base Programming in High Level Languages', Information and Software Technology, Vol. 32 No. 2. Butterworth & Co.

[3] Al-Attar, A. (1990-1995) 'Structured Decision Tasks Methodology', Attar Software Ltd. England-UK.

[4] Al-Attar, A. (1991) 'Structured Decision Tasks, A Practical Way to Develop Knowledge Based Applications' September, October, November 1991 issues of Expert Systems Applications. Buxton Press, Buxton - UK.

[5] Al-Attar, A. (1991) 'Rule Induction From Mythology to Methodology', Proceedings of Expert Systems 91 Conference London - UK. British Computer Society, Special Group on Expert Systems.

[6] Michie, D. , Al-Attar, A. (1991) 'Use of Sequential Bayes with Class Probability Trees', Machine Intelligence 12, Clarendon Press Oxford 1991.

[7] Al-Attar, A. (1994) 'A Hybrid GA-Heuristic Search Strategy', AI Expert September 1994. Miller Freeman.

[8] Hart, D. ,Al-Attar, A. (1995) 'Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Process Performance' The Brewer September 1995. England-UK

[9] Al-Attar, A. (1997) 'CRITIKAL: Client-server Rule Induction Technology for Industrial Knowledge Acquisition from Large Databases', Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering. April 1997 Birmingham - UK. IEEE Computer Society.

[10] Crockett, K., Bandar, Z., Al-Attar, A. (1997) 'Fuzzy Rule Induction from Data Sets'. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Florida Artificial Intelligence International Conference (FLAIRS 97). May 1997.

[11] Crockett, K., Bandar, Z., Al-Attar, A. (1998) 'A Fuzzy Inference Framework For Induced Decision Trees', ECAI 1998: 425-429.

[12] Crockett, K., Bandar, Z., Al-Attar, A. (2000) 'A Fuzzy Algorithm for the Efficient Utilization of Information in Decision Trees', FLAIRS Conference 2000: 97-101.

[13] Crockett, K., Bandar, Z., Al-Attar, A. (2000) 'Soft Decision Trees, A New Approach Using Non-linear Fuzzification', The Ninth IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems May 2000: 209-215.