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Nutshell - Simulation Toolkit for Modeling Data Center Networks and Cloud Computing
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Article)Cloud computing provides flexibility, reliability, and scalability to its consumers. Applications that run on Cloud are now more resource hungry than ever, and the need is constantly growing. The number of Cloud applications ... -
Observation based safety performance indexing method for construction industry – validation with SMEs
( Springer Verlag , 2018 , Article)There is an essential need for a systemized and objective site safety performance measurement method. The method also needs to cover the positive aspects of safety management perspectives considering that traditional methods ... -
Observation of the wrapping mechanism in amine carbon dioxide molecular interactions on heterogeneous sorbents
( Royal Society of Chemistry , 2016 , Article)Liquid, solvated amine based carbon capture is the core of all commercial or planned CO2 capture operations. Despite the intense research, few have looked systematically into the nature of amine molecules and their CO2 ... -
Observer based rotor failure compensation for biplane quadrotor with slung load
( Ain Shams University , 2022 , Article)In this study, mathematical modeling of biplane quadrotor with slung load is proposed. Performance of the biplane quadrotor is degrade while swinging of the slung load so to compensate it nonlinear observer based backstepping ... -
Observer-Based Leader-Following Consensus for Linear Multiagent Systems with a Leader of Unknown Input
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)In this article, a distributed observer-based tracking control protocol is proposed for linear multiagent systems having a leader with unknown nonzero input. The leader is assumed to be uncooperative, i.e., no communication ... -
Observer-based tracking controller design for a class of Lipschitz nonlinear systems
( SAGE Publications Inc , 2018 , Article Review)© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. In this paper, the observer-based controller design problem for tracking a constant reference input in Lipschitz nonlinear systems is addressed. To this end, at first, a state feedback controller ... -
Obstacles and features of health information systems: A systematic literature review
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article Review)Background: Currently many healthcare systems are supported by an increasing set of Health Information Sys-tems (HISs), which assist the activities for multiple stakeholders. The literature on HISs is, however, fragmented ... -
Occupant behavior in Indian apartments
( Springer, Singapore , 2018 , Book chapter)© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018. Occupant adaptation happens to be the key mechanism behind achieving thermal comfort in buildings. User's thermal adaptation is under researched in India, although it is important ... -
OCCUPANT PERCEPTION OF THERMAL COMFORT IN SLEEP ENVIRONMENTS IN QATAR
( Sultan Qaboos University , 2021 , Article)A thermal comfort field survey in sleep environments in winter and spring seasons in Qatar collected 833 sets of objective and subjective thermal and sleep quality responses before going to bed and after getting up. The ... -
Occupant's thermal comfort in Qatari offices - Need for the new adaptive standard
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Qatar's per capita energy consumption is one of the highest in the world, consuming 30.184 TWh as of 2012. Buildings contribute significantly (80%) to this, with air-conditioning taking a lion's share. Qatar does not have ... -
OCR based feature extraction and template matching algorithms for Qatari number plate
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)There are several algorithms and methods that could be applied to perform the character recognition stage of an automatic number plate recognition system; however, the constraints of having a high recognition rate and ... -
OCR-based hardware implementation for qatari number plate on the Zynq SoC
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) systems have become widely used for safety, security, and commercial purposes. A typical ANPR system is based on three essential stages: Number Plate Localization (NPL), Character ... -
OFDM Full-Duplex DF Relaying under I/Q Imbalance and Loopback Self-Interference
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)We analyze the outage probability of dual-hop full-duplex (FD) decode-and-forward (DF) relaying for an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system in the presence of in-phase and quadrature-phase (I/Q) imbalance ... -
Off - Grid Power Supply Solution for Portable Cabins using Solar PV System for Qatar
( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Poster)In this project, a new system for power supply for remote areas has been proposed. In the proposed system, solar PV based system with battery storage for stand-along application has been discussed. In addition, the use of ... -
Off-design performance analysis of combined CSP power and direct oxy-combustion supercritical carbon dioxide cycles
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)The solar power tower (SPT) has the potential to achieve high efficiency and large-scale power production due to its high achievable temperatures. However, thermal energy storage (TES) is required to solve the intermittency ... -
Off-line Persian Signature Verification using Wavelet-based Fractal Dimension and One-class Gaussian Process
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)This paper presents a novel individual verification approach through off-line handwriting signatures. In our proposed technique, images are decomposed into an series of wavelet sub-bands at some specific levels. In order ... -
Off-line writer identification using an ensemble of grapheme codebook features
( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)Off-line writer identification is the process of matching a handwritten sample with its author. Manual identification is very time-consuming because it requires a meticulous comparison of character shape details. Consequently ... -
Off-line writer identification using multi-scale local binary patterns and SR-KDA
( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)Writer identification is becoming an increasingly important research topic especially in forensic and biometric applications. This paper presents a novel method for performing offline write identification by using multi-scale ... -
Offloading Time Optimization via Markov Decision Process in Mobile-Edge Computing
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)Computation offloading from a mobile device to the edge server is an emerging paradigm to reduce completion latency of intensive computations in mobile-edge computing (MEC). In order to satisfy the delay-sensitive computing ... -
Oilfield scale formation and chemical removal: A review
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article Review)In oil and gas industry operations, scale deposition on the surface and subsurface production equipment can cause different problems such as formation damage, loss in production, pressure reductions, and premature failure ...