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ANN Model for Energy Demand and Supply Forecasting in a Hybrid Energy Supply System
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
This paper presents short term demand and supply forecasting model for a microgrid supply system used to secure the electricity demands of a commercial building, using one year demand data collected in hourly base. One-year ...
How to Bring a Graduate Program Closer to Employers? Needs?: A Case Study in Qatar University in the Field of IT
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Springer Verlag
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Since the mid of the 1990s, Qatar is engaged in an economic diversification strategy to move away from an economy strongly based on gas and oil. The national authorities consider that high-quality education, especially at ...
Improved human thermal comfort with indoor PCM-Enhanced tiles in living spaces in the arabian gulf
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EDP Sciences
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Al-Majlis is the living space in residential buildings of the Arabian Gulf, and is where occupants spend most of their time. For this reason, the human thermal comfort in this space is of extreme importance and is often ...
Deep learning and low rank dictionary model for mHealth data classification
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
In the context of mobile Health (mHealth) applications, data are prone to several sources of contamination which would lead to false interpretation and misleading classification results. In this paper, a robust deep learning ...
HARQ Performance over FSO Channels with Atmospheric Fading and Pointing Errors
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Free space optical communications (FSO) have witnessed a growing interest in the last few decades due to its various advantages. However, this technology suffers from its sensitivity to the atmospheric conditions such as ...
Smart Grid Cybersecurity: Standards and Technical Countermeasures
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Cybersecurity in smart grids is of critical importance given the heavy reliance of modern societies on electricity and the recent cyberattacks that resulted in blackouts. The evolution of the legacy electric grid to a ...
Exploiting LabVIEW FPGA in Implementation of DCT-based Wireless Image Transmission for Wildlife Surveillance System
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
In the development of wildlife surveillance system technology, images are important input data that allow real situations in the field to be viewed and analysed. This project proposed a compressed and wireless image ...
An Improved Structures of Modified CUK Converter using VLSI module (MCCVLSI) for High-Voltage Renewable Energy Applications
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
In this paper, an improved structures of modified CUK converter (MCCVLSI) is presented using Voltage Lift Switched Inductor (VLSI) module. The proposed converter provides a negative high DC voltage which is a doable solution ...
Drill string nonlinear vibrations: Experimental studies and finite-element analysis
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Institute of Physics Publishing
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
In the present work, nonlinear vibrations of drill strings are studied. A laboratory scale arrangement consisting of a flexible rod with rotor-stator system is used to study the system dynamics. A finite-element model has ...
Numerical study of the attenuation properties of viscoelastic metamaterials
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Institute of Physics Publishing
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Metamaterials (MMs) are materials engineered to have a property that is not found in nature. In this study, one-dimensional MMs is investigated, particularly that with a functional elastic wave band gaps where propagation ...