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    • Towards a National Electronic Health Record in Qatar: Building on International Experiences 

      Alsaad, Rawan; Al-Ali, Rashid; Badji, Radja ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Background: During the past decade, the IT industry has introduced several new concepts within the health domain including e-health, electronic health record, digital hospital, and many more. Although each of these terms ...
    • Towards a web-based adaptive problem-based learning application 

      Miao Y.; Wang D.; Fon-Pah M.N.; Samaka M.; Hoppe U. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      Problem-based learning (PBL) can be organized and conducted in a number of ways. Building a PBL application to support various PBL forms directly is difficult because the scope of variability cannot be completely known and ...
    • Towards adaptive multimedia system for assisting children with Arabic learning difficulties 

      Saleh, Moutaz; Aljaram, Jihad Mohamad (2019 , Conference Paper)
      Children with learning difficulties (LD) are increasing dramatically in the Arab world. Such children require quick intervention especially during the early childhood years. This paper presents a dynamic multimedia system ...
    • Towards agile approach for better user satisfaction 

      Al-Hawajreh, Nizar Ismail; Abualia, Ashraf; Al-Thani, Hanadi; Fouroozesh, Zohreh; Khalil, Kholoud; ... more authors ( Mundo Press , 2014 , Article)
      User satisfaction is a cornerstone indicator of any successful software project. Software projects are classified as successful only if the users are satisfied with the delivered software project result. Reducing the gap ...
    • Towards an electronic voting system for the state of Qatar 

      AlJa'am, Jihad M.; Alkhelaifi, Mubarak; Al-Khinji, Ali; Al-Sayrafi, Moustafa ( IEEE , 2009 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper we propose an electronic voting system for the state of Qatar. The system allows Qataris people to vote online from their preferred locations, (homes or offices) without the need to move physically to the ...
    • Towards an Inpainting Framework for Visual Cultural Heritage 

      Jboor N.H.; Belhi A.; Al-Ali A.K.; Bouras A.; Jaoua A. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      Cultural heritage takes an important part in defining the identity and the history of a civilization or a nation. Valuing and preserving this heritage is thus a top priority for governments and heritage institutions. Through ...
    • Towards an ontology-driven game-based educational platform with automatic student monitoring 

      Malaeb, Sarah; Erbad, Aiman; M. AlJa'am, Jihad ( IEEE , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      This paper presents a new educational platform for young children. It is based mainly on serious games and semantic web. The platform is used to assess and monitor the children' progress and performance in meeting preset ...
    • Towards automated hazard analysis for CPS security with application to CSTR system 

      Golabi, Arash; Erradi, Abdelkarim; Tantawy, Ashraf ( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)
      Hazard analysis to identify risks due to cyber attacks is crucial to ensure cyber-physical systems' safety and correct their behavior. This study proposes a framework to analyze cyber-physical systems (CPS) risks using ...
    • Towards bandwidth guaranteed energy efficient data center networking 

      Wang, Ting; Qin, Bo; Su, Zhiyang; Xia, Yu; Hamdi, Mounir; ... more authors ( Springer , 2015 , Article)
      The data center network connecting the servers in a data center plays a crucial role in orchestrating the infrastructure to deliver peak performance to users. In order to meet high performance and reliability requirements, ...
    • Towards cost-effective maintenance of power transformer by accurately predicting its insulation condition 

      Ghunem, Refat Atef; Shaban, Khaled Bashir; El-Hag, Ayman Hassan; Assaleh, Khaled (2012 , Conference Paper)
      Insulation resistance (IR) or Megger test has been commonly performed in both preventive and corrective maintenance activities to verify power transformers' insulation condition. Other insulation diagnosis tests such as ...
    • Towards energy efficient and quality of service aware cell zooming in 5G wireless networks 

      Lateef, Hafiz Yasar; Shakir, Muhammad Zeeshan; Ismail, Muhammad; Mohamed, Amr; Qaraqe, Khalid ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      This paper presents an energy efficient and quality of service aware dynamic cell zooming algorithm for dense heterogeneous networks. The exponential growth of mobile data traffic would lead to dense deployment of small ...
    • Towards energy efficient relay placement and load balancing in future wireless networks 

      Lateef H.Y.; Chiasserini C.F.; Elbatt T.; Mohamed A.; Guizani M. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      This paper presents an energy efficient relay deployment algorithm that determines the optimal location and number of relays for future wireless networks, including Long Term Evolution (LTE)-Advanced heterogeneous networks. ...
    • Towards energy-aware 5G heterogeneous networks 

      Lateef, Hafiz Yasar; Dohler, Mischa; Mohammed, Amr; Guizani, Mohsen Mokhtar; Chiasserini, Carla Fabiana ( Springer International Publishing , 2016 , Book chapter)
      Over the past decade, the telecommunication industry has witnessed excessive growth in the number of mobile users. Market forecasts envision that there will be nearly 8.6 billion mobile devices worldwide by 2017. This ...
    • Towards Extended Bit Tracking for Scalable and Robust RFID Tag Identification Systems 

      Fahim A.; Elbatt T.; Mohamed A.; Al-Ali A. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Article)
      The surge in demand for Internet of Things (IoT) systems and applications has motivated a paradigm shift in the development of viable radio frequency identification technology (RFID)-based solutions for ubiquitous real-Time ...
    • Towards model-based management of database fragmentation 

      Ali, Asim; Jia, Rui; Erradi, Abdelkarim; Abdelwahed, Sherif; Hadjidj, Rachid ( USENIX Association , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      The performance of a database can significantly deteriorate due to the fragmentation of data/index files. Manual database defragmentation and performance optimization remain time consuming and even infeasible as it requires ...
    • Towards NLP-based Semi-automatic Preparation of Content for Language Learning using LingoSnacks m-Learning Platform 

      Erradi, Abdelkarim; Hind, Almerekhi; Sajeda, Nahia ( Institute of information System and Research Center (IISRC) , 2013 , Article)
      Vocabulary growth is an important element for language learning but it requires repeated and varied exposure to the new words and their usage in different context. However preparing suitable learning content for effective ...
    • Towards On-Device Dehydration Monitoring Using Machine Learning from Wearable Device's Data 

      Sabry, Farida; Eltaras, Tamer; Labda, Wadha; Hamza, Fatima; Alzoubi, Khawla; ... more authors ( MDPI , 2022 , Article)
      With the ongoing advances in sensor technology and miniaturization of electronic chips, more applications are researched and developed for wearable devices. Hydration monitoring is among the problems that have been recently ...
    • Towards pedagogy-driven learning design: A case study of problem-based learning design 

      Miao, Yongwu; Ally, Mohamed; Samaka, Mohammed; Tsinakos, Avgoustos A. ( Springer Verlag , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      Existing learning design languages are pedagogy-neutral. They provide insufficient support to explicitly represent pedagogy-specific approaches such as problem-based learning (PBL). As the first step towards pedagogy-driven ...
    • Towards Proactive Fault Management of Enterprise Systems 

      Jia, Rui; Abdelwahed, Sherif; Erradi, Abdelkarim ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      This paper introduces a model-based approach for autonomic fault management of computing systems. The proposed approach can recover a system from common faults while minimizing the impact on the system's quality of service ...
    • Towards scalable traffic management in cloud data centers 

      Assi, Chadi; Ayoubi, Sara; Sebbah, Samir; Shaban, Khaled ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Article)
      Cloud Computing is becoming a mainstream paradigm, as organizations, large and small, begin to harness its benefits. This novel technology brings new challenges, mostly in the protocols that govern its underlying infrastructure. ...