Salem Al-Agtash
Salem Al-Agtash got his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1998. He is a teaching assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering, as well as an experienced technology advisor and consultant. His current teaching experience is in computer networks, operating systems, and programming.
His current research focuses on Smart Microgrids, Agent Systems, and SPADE (Smart Python Agent Development Environment). He has published 54 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences with 700 citations, 16 Google Scholar i10-index, and a 394.9 RI score.
His industrial experience has been in technology development and consulting. As a technical advisor and consultant, Dr. Al-Agtash has worked on several projects funded by the European Commission, including Africa-connect, EUMed-Connect, EUmed-Grid, Chain, Magic, and Osscom.
- Computer Networks, Operating Systems, C Programming
S Al-Agtash, X Xian, K Petroshchuk, H Syeddah, "Smart Python Agents for Microgrids," Smart Grid and Renewable Energy, Vol. 14, No. 10, doi: 10.4236/sgre.2023.1410011.
Khalifeh, R. Tanash, M. AlQudah, S. Al-Agtash (2023),“ Enhancing energy efficiency of IEEE 802.15.4- based industrial wireless sensor networks," Journal of Industrial Information Integration, Vol. 33, doi.org/10.1016/j.jii.2023.100460.
Al-Agtash, M. Al Hashem (2023), “Microgrid Optimal Scheduling,” Smart Grid and Renewable Energy, Vol. 14, No. 2, doi: 10.4236/sgre.2023.142002.
Almasri, A. Khalifeh, S. Al-Agtash (2022), “SCSAP: Spiral Clustering Based on Selective Activation Protocol for industrial tailored WSNs”, Journal of Industrial Information Integration, Vol. 27. doi:10.1016/j.jii.2022.100332.
Al-Agtash, N. Al-Mutlaq, M. Elabbas, A. Alkhraibat, and M. Al Hashem (2021), “Multi-Agents for Microgrids”, Energy and Power Engineering, Vol. 13, pp. 293-305. D: 10.4236/epe.2021.137020.
Al-Agtash, A. Alkhraibat, M. Al Hashem, and N. Al-Mutlaq (2021), “Real-Time Operation of Microgrids”, Energy and Power Engineering, Vol. 13, pp. 51-66. D: 10.4236/epe.2021.131004.
Al-Agtash and H. Hafez (2020), “Agents for Smart Power Grids”, Energy and Power Engineering, Vol. 12, pp. 477-489. doi:10.4236/epe.2020.128029.
Bintoudi, L. Zyglakis, A. Tsolakis, D. Ioannidis, L. Hadjidemetriou, L. Zacharia, N. Mutlaq, M. Hashem, S. Al-Agtash, E. Kyriakides, C. Demoulias, D. Tzovaras (2020), “Hybrid Multi-Agent-Based Adaptive Control Scheme for AC Microgrids with increased fault-tolerance needs”, IET Renewable Power Generation, Vol.14, No.1, pp.1-6.
Al-Agtash, R. Barbera (2019), “Interoperable e-Infrastructure Services in Arabia”, Journal of Computer and Communications, Vol. 7, pp. 29- 41.
Al-Agtash, L. Khadra, (2019), “Internationalization Context of Arabia Higher Education”, International Journal of Higher Education Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 68 – 81.
Al-Gharabli, S. Al-Agtash, N. Rawashdeh, and K. Barqawi (2015), “Artificial Neural Networks for Dihedral Angles Prediction in Enzyme Loops: a Novel Approach”, International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, Vol. 11, pp. 153–163.
Al-Agtash (2013), “Electricity Agents in Smart Grid Markets”, Computers in Industry, Vol. 64, pp.235-241.
Al-Agtash (2012), “PC-Based Automated Control System for Jordan Northern Grain Silo”, Engineering, Vol.4, No.12, pp.914-919.
Al-Agtash (2011), “Workforce Assessment in the Jordanian ICT Industry”, International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics in Information Technology, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 18-36.
Al-Agtash (2010), “Supply Curve Bidding of Electricity in Constrained Power Networks”, Energy, Vol. 35, No. 7, pp. 2886-2892.
Al-Agtash, A. Al-Fahoum (2008), “An Innovative Model for Utry Partnership”, International Journal of Innovation and Learning, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 512–532.
Al-Agtash, N. Al-Fayoumi (2007), “Software Engineering Approach to Developing Agents for Electricity E-commerce”, International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 360-370.
Al-Agtash, A. Al-Fahoum (2005), “An Evolutionary Computation Approach to Electricity Trade Negotiation”, Advances in Engineering Software, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 173-179.
Al-Agtash, H. Yamin (2004), “Optimal Supply Curve Bidding Using Benders Decomposition in Competitive Electricity Markets”, Electric Power Systems Research, International Journal, Vol. 71, No. 3, pp. 245-255.
Al-Agtash, R. Su (2004), "Economic Efficiency of Pool Coordinated Electricity Markets", International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 281-289.
Yamin, S. Al-Agtash, S.M. Shahidehpour (2004), “Security-Constrained Optimal Generation Scheduling for GENCOs”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 1365-1372.
Awad, S. Al-Agtash, A. Nsour (2004), “Adaptive Neuro – Fuzzy Inference system for Traffic Cycle Optimization”, International Journal of Modeling and Simulation, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 80 – 84.
Al-Fayoumi, S. Al-Agtash (2002), “Electronic Multilateral Trade of Electricity”, Advances in Engineering Software, Vol. 33, No. 11-12, pp. 749-759.
Al-Agtash, R. Su (2002), "Economic Efficiency of Coordinated Multilateral Trades in Electricity Markets", International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Vol. 24, No. 10, pp. 843-850.
Al-Agtash, N. Al-Fayoumi (2002), "Resource Operation Planning in Competitive Power Systems”, Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 335-348.
Al-Agtash, N. Al-Fayoumi (2002), "A Trade Server for Electricity e-Commerce”, Computers in Industry, Vol. 47, No.1, pp. 89-97.
Al-Agtash (2001), "Hydrothermal Scheduling by Augmented Lagrangian: Consideration of Transmission Constraints and Pumped-Storage units", IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp.750-756.
Al-Fayoumi, S. Al-Agtash (2000), "Auto-Negotiation in Competitive Power Industries”, International Journal of Engineering Simulation, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 18-22.
Nsour, I. Al-Hujazi, S. Al-Agtash (2000), “Optimal Traffic Cycle Estimation Using Neural Networks”, International Journal of Modeling and Simulation, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 221-226.
Al-Agtash, R. Su (1998), "Augmented Lagrangian Approach to Hydrothermal Scheduling", IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 1392-1400.
Bataineh, A. Al-Anbukey and S. Al-Agtash (1996), "An Expert System for Unit Commitment and Power Demand Prediction Using Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks", Expert Systems, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 29-40.
Al-Anbukey, S. Bataineh, S. Al-Agtash (1995), "Power Demand Prediction Using Fuzzy Logic", Control Engineering Practice, IFAC, Vol. 3, No. 9, pp. 1291-1298.
Conference Publications:
Al-Agtash, X. Xian, K. Petroshchuk, H. Syeddah, and H. Bindu Mallampati (2023), "Developing Microgrid Agents U sing Smart Python Agent Development Environment (SPADE)", In Proceedings of the 2023 Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing, Las Vegas, 2683-2686, doi: 10.1109/CSCE60160.2023.00428.
Al-Agtash, M. Al-Hashem, M. Batarseh, A. Bintoudi, A. Tsolakis, D. Tzovaras, J. Martinez-Ramos, A. Onen, B. Azzopardi, L. Hadjidemetriou, L. Zacharia, N. Martensen, M. Khiat (2020), “Microgrid Environmental Impact”, Proceedings of 2020 6th IEEE International Energy Conference, Tunisia, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/ENERGYCon48941.2020.9236464.
Zacharia, L. Tziovani, M. Savva, L. Hadjidemetriou, E. Kyriakides, A. Bintoudi, A. Tsolakis, D. Tzovaras, J. Martinez-Ramos, A. Marano, B. Azzopardi, N. Martensen, M. Khait, A. Onen, S. Al-Agtash (2019), “Optimal Energy Management and Scheduling of a Microgrid in Grid-Connected and Islanded Modes”, Proceedings of 2019 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies, Portugal, 2019.
Hadjidemetriou, L. Zacharia, E. Kyriakides, B. Azzopardi, S. Azzopardi, R. Mikalauskiene, S. Al-Agtash, M. Al-hashem, A. Tsolakis, D. Ioannidis, D. Tzovaras (2018), “Design factors for developing a university campus microgrid”, Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Energy Conference, Cyprus, 2018.
Bintoudi, L. Zyglakis, A. Tsolakis, D. Ioannidis, M. Al-Hashem, S. Al-Agtash, L. Hadjidemetriou, L. Zacharia, E. Kyriakides, C. Demoulias, D. Tzovaras (2018), “An improved decentralised coordinated control scheme for microgrids with AC-coupled units”, Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies, Spain.
Alhashem, S. Al-Agtash, M. Batarseh, Z. Dalalah (2018), “Scheduling Approach for Connected Micro-Grid System”, Proceedings of 9th IEEE International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation, USA.
Martensen, S. Al-Agtash, B. Azzopardi, D. Ioannidis, A. Önen, J. L. Martinez Ramos, K. Mounir, L. Hadjidemetriou, T. Camilleri, N. Borg (2018), “Framework Design for Smart Micro-Grids”, 3rd International Hybrid Power Systems Workshop, Spain.
Al-Agtash (2018), “Investing in Networking and Human Support of African Science”, Internet2 Global Summit, San Diego, USA.
Bintoudi, L. Zyglakis, T. Apostolos, D. Ioannidis, S. Al-Agtash, J. L. Martinez-Ramos, A. Onen, B. Azzopardi, L. Hadjidemetriou, N. Martensen, C. Demoulias, and D. Tzovaras (2017), “Novel hybrid design For microgrid control,” 2017 IEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, India.
Al-Agtash (2016), “State of the art of the Research Networking Infrastructure - North Africa - Regional Science Gateways and Publication Tools: the Arab States Science Grid”, IST Africa, South Africa.
Al-Agtash (2016), “Arab e-Infrastructures in a Global Context”, Internet2 Global Summit, Chicago, USA.
Al-Agtash, R. Barbera, F. Ruggeiri, B. Barry (2015), “Intercontinental Networking towards Cohesive Platform of Collaboration with Africa and Arabia”, Internet2 Global Summit, Washington DC, USA.
Khalifeh, S. Al-Agtash, R. Tanash, and M. AlQudah (2016) “Deploying Agents for Monitoring and Notification of Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE 28th Inter. Conf. on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, San Jose, USA.
Al-Agtash (2015), “Towards Pan-Arab Transformative Education and Rejuvenation”, World Universities Forum 2015: The Economics of Higher Education”, Georgia Southern University, Savannah, USA.
Prnjat, M. Rodriguez, S. Al-Agtash (2014), “Surveying Clouds in the Global Environment”, Proceedings of the International Platform on Integrating Arab e-Infrastructures, Muscat, Oman.
Al-Agtash (2011), “Towards Developing Pan-Arab e-Infrastructure in a Regional Context”, Proceedings of the EUMEDGRID-Support User Forum, Lyon, France.
Al-Agtash (2010), “Case Study: Developing Quality and Relevance ICT Education at the German Jordanian University through EU-Tempus Project”, Proceedings of the 3rd Event on European Mediterranean e-Infrastructure, Brussels, Belgium.
Pulkkinen, S. Al-Agtash, B.Kane (2009), “Framework on Education for All in the Digital Age”, Global Forum of the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development, Mexico City, Mexico.
Al-Agtash (2008), “Sustainable Education and Cultural Literacy in the Arab Regional Context”, Proceedings of SECL 2008: Ubiquitous ICT for Sustainable Education and Cultural Literacy, Finland.
Al-Agtash, Khadra (2007), “World Class Universities in Developing Countries: German-Jordanian University Model”, Proceedings of the 2nd Inter. Conf. on World Class Universities, Shanghai, China.
Al-Agtash (2006), "Developing agent for electricity trade markets", 2006 IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems, Prague, pp. 231-236, Czech Republic.
Al-Agtash (2004), “Evolutionary Negotiation Strategies in Emerging Electricity Markets”, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISBN: 978-3-540-22123-4, pp. 1099 – 1104, Poland.
Awad, S. Al-Agtash, A. Nsour (2003), “Adaptive Neuro–Fuzzy Inference System for Traffic Cycle Optimization”, Proceedings of the International Fuzzy System Association, Istanbul, Turkey.
Al-Fayoumi, S. Al-Agtash (2001), “Agent-Based Electricity Trade”, Proceedings of the International Society of Computer Applications, Las Vegas, USA.
Al-Agtash, N. Al-Fayoumi (2000), "Automated Trading in Electricity Spot Markets ", Proceedings of The International Energy Conference, Dubai, UAE.
Al-Agtash, N. Al-Fayoumi (2000), "Software Architecture for Modeling Competitive Power Systems", Proceedings of IEEE PES Winter Meeting 2000, Vol. 3, pp. 1674 –1679, Singapore.
Al-Agtash, T. Dwairy, A. El-Nasan, B. Mull, M. Barakat, A. Shqair (2006), “Re-Engineering BLUE Financial System Using Round-Trip Engineering and JAVA Language Conversion Assistant”, The 2006 International Conference on Software Engineering Research & Practice, Las Vegas, pp. 657-663, USA.