Bible and Theology by Anton Deik
Reading Ecclesiastes from Asia and Pasifika, 2020
Deik, Anton. “Justice in Ecclesiastes (3:16–4:3 and 8:10–17): A Missional Reading from and for Pa... more Deik, Anton. “Justice in Ecclesiastes (3:16–4:3 and 8:10–17): A Missional Reading from and for Palestine.” Pages 69-84 in Reading Ecclesiastes from Asia and Pasifika. Edited by Jione Havea and Peter Lau. IVBS 10. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2020.
The Religious Other: A Biblical Understanding of Islam, the Qur’an and Muhammad, 2020
Deik, Anton. “Paul in Athens (Acts 17:16-34): A Babbler or an Evangelistic Scholar of Religion?” ... more Deik, Anton. “Paul in Athens (Acts 17:16-34): A Babbler or an Evangelistic Scholar of Religion?” Pages 52-61 in The Religious Other: A Biblical Understanding of Islam, the Qur’an and Muhammad. Edited by Martin Accad and Jonathan Andrews. Carlisle: Langham, 2020.
The Religious Other: A Biblical Understanding of Islam, the Qur’an and Muhammad, 2020
Deik, Anton. “Christian Zionism and Mission: How Does Our Understanding of Christianity Impact Ou... more Deik, Anton. “Christian Zionism and Mission: How Does Our Understanding of Christianity Impact Our Witness in the World?” Pages 74-81 in The Religious Other: A Biblical Understanding of Islam, the Qur’an and Muhammad. Edited by Martin Accad and Jonathan Andrews. Carlisle: Langham, 2020.
The Israeli occupation of the land of Palestine in 1948 and 1967, and its Old Testament-based jus... more The Israeli occupation of the land of Palestine in 1948 and 1967, and its Old Testament-based justification, especially by Western Christendom, represent a main challenge to an emerging Palestinian theology. In particular, Palestinian Christian theologians find themselves facing a hermeneutical challenge: How should they interpret problematic Old Testament texts used to justify the occupation of their land, such as those related to the promises of land, the Exodus, the conquest of Canaan, and the election of the Jews? Moreover, Palestinian Christians want to relate the Bible, especially the Old Testament, to their struggle. In order to do that, they also need a hermeneutic. What kind of hermeneutic should they use? This dissertation aims to expound and evaluate the Old Testament hermeneutical approaches of three prominent Palestinian theologians, namely, Naim Ateek, Mitri Raheb, and Yohanna Katanacho. It also aims to bring their hermeneutical approaches into a comparative analysis. Ateek is an Anglican Palestinian Israeli, who is considered one of the main pillars of contemporary Palestinian theology. Raheb, the most published among contemporary Palestinian theologians, is a Lutheran pastor and theologian from Bethlehem, the West Bank. Katanacho, born and raised in East Jerusalem, is an emerging Palestinian Evangelical theologian and Biblical scholar.
Computer Science by Anton Deik
The 16th IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), 2019
Although the field of usability evaluation is a well-established discipline, there are no studies... more Although the field of usability evaluation is a well-established discipline, there are no studies on how the usability of lexicographic e-services can be evaluated. This includes, for example, efficiency, effectiveness, and user satisfaction when looking up for synonyms, meanings, or translations using online lexicons. In this paper, we propose to combine two types of usability evaluations to assess the usability of such services: a subjective user-experience evaluation and a more objective controlled experiment, demonstrating how both methods complement each other. We applied our proposed approach to evaluate two important online lexicographic e-services: a lexicographic search engine developed at Birzeit University (https://ontology.birzeit.edu) as well as Google Translate. The user-experience evaluation was conducted through a survey that involved 622 users, and was designed to measure effectiveness, efficiency, satisfaction, and learnability. The controlled experiment involved a set of defined tasks, which were carried out by four teams (12 people) in two laboratories, and their performance was monitored. The tasks were designed to measure effectiveness and efficiency.
International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, 2015
Querying large data graphs has brought the attention of the research community. Many solutions we... more Querying large data graphs has brought the attention of the research community. Many solutions were pro- posed, such as Oracle Semantic Technologies, Virtuoso, RDF3X, and C-Store, among others. Although such approaches have shown good performance in queries with medium complexity, they perform poorly when the complexity of the queries increases. In this paper, the authors propose the Graph Signature Index, a novel and scalable approach to index and query large data graphs. The idea is that they summarize a graph and instead of executing the query on the original graph, they execute it on the summaries. The authors’ experi- ments with Yago (16M triples) have shown that e.g., a query with 4 levels costs 62 sec using Oracle but it only costs about 0.6 sec with their index. Their index can be implemented on top of any Graph database, but they chose to implement it as an extension to Oracle on top of the SEM_MATCH table function. The paper also introduces disk-based versions of the Trace Equivalence and Bisimilarity algorithms to summarize data graphs, and discusses their complexity and usability for RDF graphs.
proceedings of the IFIP International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA’11), 2011
The major challenge when integrating information systems in any
domain such as e-Government is t... more The major challenge when integrating information systems in any
domain such as e-Government is the challenge of Interoperability. One can
distinguish between three aspects of Interoperability; technical, semantic, and
organizational. The technical aspect has been widely tackled especially after the
ubiquity of internet technologies. The semantic and organizational aspects deal
with sharing the same understanding (semantics) of exchanged information
among all applications and services, in addition to modeling and re-engineering
governmental processes to facilitate process cooperation that provision seamless
e-government services. In this paper, we present the case of the Palestinian
Interoperability Framework ‘Zinnar’, which is a use case of using ontology in egovernment
(i.e., data and process governance) to tackle the issues of semantic
and organizational interoperability. The followed methodology resulted in a
success story within a very short time and has produced a framework that is
intuitive, elegant, and easy to understand and implement.
Keywords: Interoperability, Data Integration, e-Government, Ontology, Data
Governance, Process Governance, Business Process Modeling.
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Intelligent Semantic Web – Applications and Services, Jan 1, 2010
Companies, Communities, Research Labs, and even Governments are all competing on publishing struc... more Companies, Communities, Research Labs, and even Governments are all competing on publishing structured data in the web in many forms such as RDF and XML. Many Datasets are now being published and linked together, including Wikipedia, Yago, DBLP, IEEE, IBM, Flickr, and US and UK government data. Most of these datasets are published in RDF which is a graphbased data model. However, querying RDF graphs is a major problem which has brought the attention of the research community. Among the many approaches proposed to tune up the performance of queries over data graphs, a number of them proposed to summarize RDF graphs for query optimization; instead of querying a dataset, queries are executed over the summary of the dataset. In order to summarize a dataset, two well known algorithms are being used, namely, Trace Equivalence and Bisimilarity. Nevertheless, these are memory based and thus suffer from scalability problems because of the limitations imposed by the memory. In this paper, we propose disk-based versions of those memory-based algorithms and we adapt them to RDF data. Our proposed algorithms are experimented on relatively large datasets and using different sizes of memory to prove that they are indeed disk based.
Proceedings of the 3rd Palestinian International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (PICCIT 2010), 2010
The amount of structured data in the web is growing rapidly. For example, Google, Yahoo, Freebase... more The amount of structured data in the web is growing rapidly. For example, Google, Yahoo, Freebase, Upcoming, eBay, Flickr, and many more are competing on offering their data in a structured format such as XML and RDF. To exploit the full potential of this massive amount of structured data, MashQL was introduced as a query formulation language for the data web and specifically for RDF data sources. However, querying large RDF datasets is indeed of high complexity. Not only MashQL, but several other approaches have been proposed to tune up the performance of queries over large RDF datasets. Many of these approaches propose to summarize large RDF datasets for query optimization purposes; instead of querying a dataset, queries are executed over the summary of the dataset. In order to summarize a dataset (which is typically represented as a graph), two well-known algorithms are being used, namely, Trace Equivalence and Bisimilarity. Nevertheless, Trace Equivalence and Bisimilarity algorithms being used are memory based. As a consequence, they suffer from scalability problems because of the limitations imposed by the memory. In this paper, we propose two disk-based versions of those two memory-based algorithms. Our proposed algorithms are experimented on a relatively large dataset and using different sizes of memory to prove that they are indeed memory independent.
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Bible and Theology by Anton Deik
Computer Science by Anton Deik
domain such as e-Government is the challenge of Interoperability. One can
distinguish between three aspects of Interoperability; technical, semantic, and
organizational. The technical aspect has been widely tackled especially after the
ubiquity of internet technologies. The semantic and organizational aspects deal
with sharing the same understanding (semantics) of exchanged information
among all applications and services, in addition to modeling and re-engineering
governmental processes to facilitate process cooperation that provision seamless
e-government services. In this paper, we present the case of the Palestinian
Interoperability Framework ‘Zinnar’, which is a use case of using ontology in egovernment
(i.e., data and process governance) to tackle the issues of semantic
and organizational interoperability. The followed methodology resulted in a
success story within a very short time and has produced a framework that is
intuitive, elegant, and easy to understand and implement.
Keywords: Interoperability, Data Integration, e-Government, Ontology, Data
Governance, Process Governance, Business Process Modeling.
domain such as e-Government is the challenge of Interoperability. One can
distinguish between three aspects of Interoperability; technical, semantic, and
organizational. The technical aspect has been widely tackled especially after the
ubiquity of internet technologies. The semantic and organizational aspects deal
with sharing the same understanding (semantics) of exchanged information
among all applications and services, in addition to modeling and re-engineering
governmental processes to facilitate process cooperation that provision seamless
e-government services. In this paper, we present the case of the Palestinian
Interoperability Framework ‘Zinnar’, which is a use case of using ontology in egovernment
(i.e., data and process governance) to tackle the issues of semantic
and organizational interoperability. The followed methodology resulted in a
success story within a very short time and has produced a framework that is
intuitive, elegant, and easy to understand and implement.
Keywords: Interoperability, Data Integration, e-Government, Ontology, Data
Governance, Process Governance, Business Process Modeling.