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A Methodology for daylight optimisation of high-rise buildings in the dense urban district using overhang length and glazing type variables with surrogate modelling
( Institute of Physics Publishing , 2019 , Conference Paper)Urbanization and population growth lead to the construction of higher buildings in the 21st century. This causes an increment on energy consumption as the amount of constructed floor areas is rising steadily. Integrating ... -
A METHODOLOGY TO ASSES ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY OF EDUCATIONAL BUILDINGS IN QATAR WITH A CASE STUDY
(2024 , Dissertation)Addressing the urgent global call for sustainable solutions in the building sector, this study embarked on suggesting an approach to investigate the life cycle sustainability analysis of the school buildings in Qatar in ... -
A Micelle Fusion-Aggregation Assembly Approach to Mesoporous Carbon Materials with Rich Active Sites for Ultrasensitive Ammonia Sensing
( American Chemical Society , 2016 , Article)Nanostructured carbon materials have received considerable attention due to their special physicochemical properties. Herein, ordered mesoporous carbons (OMCs) with two-dimension (2D) hexagonal mesostructure and unique ... -
A Micro-Moment System for Domestic Energy Efficiency Analysis
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)Domestic user behavior is a crucial factor guiding overall power consumption, necessitating the development of systems that analyze and help shape energy-efficient behavior. Therefore, the most important step in the process ... -
A microbial fuel cell configured for the remediation of recalcitrant pollutants in soil environment
( Royal Society of Chemistry , 2019 , Article)A pristine soil environment supports a healthy soil biodiversity, which is often polluted with recalcitrant compounds. The bioelectrochemical remediation of the contaminated soils using bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) ... -
A microfluidic pore model to study the migration of fine particles in single-phase and multi-phase flows in porous media
( Springer Verlag , 2018 , Article)Fine particles within porous media may migrate with the flowing fluid and cause bridging or clogging in the pore space. Bridging and clogging reduce the flow permeability of porous media, which has a significant influence ... -
A minorization-maximization algorithm for an-based mimome secrecy rate maximization
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)We consider the problem of secrecy rate maximization in a multi-input multi-output multi-eavesdropper (MIMOME) wiretap channel and present an exact solution. A general system model with a multi-antenna eavesdropper and a ... -
A Minorization-Maximization Algorithm for Maximizing the Secrecy Rate of the MIMOME Wiretap Channel
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)We consider physical layer security in a multi-input multi-output multi-eavesdropper wiretap channel and present an exact solution to the problem of secrecy rate maximization. A system model with multiple multi-antenna ... -
A mixed iron–manganese based pyrophosphate cathode, Na2Fe0.5Mn0.5P2O7, for rechargeable sodium ion batteries
( Royal Society of Chemistry , 2016 , Article)The development of secondary batteries based on abundant and cheap elements is vital. Among various alternatives to conventional lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are promising due to the abundant resources ... -
A mixed model-based Johnson's relative weights for eco-efficiency assessment: The case for global food consumption
( Elsevier Inc. , 2021 , Article)Eco-efficiency composite indicators are widely accepted as the ratio of environmental impact to created economic value. These indicators are realistic measures for assessing sustainability performance considering the economy ... -
A Mobile System for Historical Manuscripts Capturing, Recognition and Classification
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)This paper proposes a mobile system to capture, recognize and classify historical manuscripts automatically. The user can take a snapshot of a manuscript through his/her mobile camera and send to a dedicated server. An ... -
A modal logic for information system security
( Australian Computer Society, Inc. , 2011 , Article)As a security mechanism, authorization or access control ensures that all accesses to the system resources occur exclusively according to the access polices and rules specified by the systemsecurity agent. Authorization ... -
A model and optimization-based heuristic for the operational aircraft maintenance routing problem
( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)This paper investigates the Operational Aircraft Maintenance Routing Problem (OAMRP). Given a set of flights for a specific homogeneous fleet type, this short-term planning problem requires building feasible aircraft routes ... -
A model driven framework for secure outsourcing of computation to the cloud
( IEEE Computer Society , 2014 , Conference Paper)This paper presents a model driven approach to define then coordinate the execution of protocols for secure outsourcing of computation of large datasets in cloud computing environments. First we present our Outsourcing ... -
A model for capacitated green vehicle routing problem with the time-varying vehicle speed and soft time windows
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)This paper investigates the capacitated green vehicle routing problem (GVRP) with time-varying vehicle speed and soft time windows. The GVRP is developed as a multi-objective mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) ... -
A model for enhancing robustness of aircraft and passenger connections
( Elsevier , 2013 , Article)Airlines schedules are often subject to various uncontrollable factors that cause disruptions and delays. These delays not only constitute, for many passengers, the painful part of air travel, but also represent for airlines ... -
A model for estimating the carbon footprint of maritime transportation of Liquefied Natural Gas under uncertainty
( Elsevier B.V. , 2021 , Article)The demand for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in the global markets has changed significantly. As a result, industries have been forced to consider investing significantly in supply chains to achieve an efficient distribution ... -
A model for planning locations of temporary distribution facilities for emergency response
( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)We propose a network flow model for dynamic selection of temporary distribution facilities and allocation of resources for emergency response planning. The model analyzes the transfer of excess resources between temporary ... -
A model for predicting failure of oil pipelines
( Taylor & Francis , 2014 , Article)Oil and gas pipelines transport millions of dollars of goods everyday worldwide. Even though they are the safest way to transport petroleum products, pipelines do still fail generating hazardous consequences and irreparable ... -
A model for predicting room occupancy based on motion sensor data
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)When designing a large scale IoT ecosystem, it is important to provide economical solutions at all levels, from sensors and actuators to the software used for analytics and orchestration. It is of equal importance to provide ...
