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    • QoS dependency modeling for composite systems 

      Hashmi K.; Malik Z.; Erradi A.; Rezgui A. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , 2018 , Article)
      Software as a service is a well accepted software deployment and distribution model that has grown exponentially in the last few years. One of the biggest benefits of SaaS is the automated composition of different services ...
    • QoS optimization for cloud service composition based on economic model 

      Kholidy, Hisham A.; Hassan, Hala; Sarhan, Amany M.; Erradi, Abdelkarim; Abdelwahed, Sherif ( Springer Verlag , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      Cloud service composition is usually long term based and economically driven. Services in cloud computing can be categorized into two groups: Application services and Computing Services. Compositions in the application ...
    • QoS provision for vehicle big data by parallel transmission based on heterogeneous network characteristics prediction 

      Qiao, Wenxuan; Dong, Ping; Du, Xiaojiang; Zhang, Yuyang; Zhang, Hongke; ... more authors ( Academic Press Inc. , 2022 , Article)
      Multipath parallel transmission has become an important research direction to improve big data transmission efficiency of connected vehicles. However, due to the heterogeneity and time-varying characteristics of parallel ...
    • QoS-Aware Reliable Traffic Prediction Model under Wireless Vehicular Networks 

      Zhang, Qin; Guo, Zhiwei; Yu, Keping; Al-Dulaimi, Anwer; Wei, Wei; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      With the continuous progress of communication quality, the wireless vehicular networks (WVN) will surely be-come an inevitable part of future smart cities. Inside WVN where context is complicated and stochastic, quality ...
    • QR2: A third-party query reranking service over web databases 

      Durairaj Gunasekaran Y.; Asudeh A.; Hasani S.; Zhang N.; Jaoua A.; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      The ranked retrieval model has rapidly become the de-facto way for search query processing in web databases. Despite the extensive efforts on designing better ranking mechanisms, in practice, many such databases fail to ...
    • QRS Complexes Classification Using Dictionary Learning and Pietra Index 

      Baali H.; Djelouat H.; Amira A.; Bensaali F.; Zhai X. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      In this study, an algorithm for arrhythmia classification that conforms to the recommended practice by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) is presented. Our approach efficiently exploits ...
    • QU at TREC-2015: Building Real-Time Systems for Tweet Filtering and Question Answering 

      Suwaileh, Reem; Hasanain, Maram; Torki, Marwan; Elsayed, Tamer ( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      This paper presents our participation in the microblog and LiveQA tracks in TREC-2015. Both tracks required building a "real-time" system that monitors a data stream and responds to users' information needs in real-time. ...
    • QU-IR at SemEval 2016 Task 3: Learning to rank on Arabic community question answering forums with word embedding 

      Malhas, Rana; Torki, Marwan; Elsayed, Tamer ( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Resorting to community question answering (CQA) websites for finding answers has gained momentum in the past decade with the explosive rate at which social media has been proliferating. With many questions left unanswered ...
    • "Quad-band flexible magnesium zinc ferrite (MgZnFe2O4)-based double negative metamaterial for microwave applications" 

      Rahman, Md Atiqur; Islam, Mohammad Tariqul; Singh, Mandeep Singh Jit; Chowdhury, Muhammad EH.; Samsuzzaman, Md ( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)
      This article presents vertically coupled, rectangular complementary split-ring resonator-shaped quad-band double-negative (DNG) metamaterial unit cells, that is, having both negative permittivity and permeability, which ...
    • Quadruple Boost Multilevel Inverter (QB-MLI) Topology with Reduced Switch Count 

      Iqbal, Atif; Siddique, Marif Daula; Reddy, B. Prathap; Maroti, Pandav Kiran ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)
      Multilevel inverter concepts (MLIs) with switched capacitor (SC) are emerging due to their scope in sustainable energy systems as well as high-voltage applications. In the SC technique, required voltage levels can be ...
    • Qualitative economic model for long-term IaaS composition 

      Mistry, Sajib; Bouguettaya, Athman; Dong, Hai; Erradi, Abdelkarim ( Springer Verlag , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      We propose a new qualitative economic model based optimization approach to compose an optimal set of infrastructure service requests over a long-term period. The economic model is represented as a temporal CP-Net to capture ...
    • Quality of Coverage: A Novel Approach to Coverage for Mobile Crowd Sensing Systems 

      Azmy S.B.; Zorba N.; Hassanein H.S. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) is an effective paradigm that utilizes the crowd as an extended instrument for the purpose of collecting data. However, utilizing the crowd comes with the risks stemming from the crowd's ...
    • Quality of sustainability optimization design for mobile ad hoc networks in disaster areas 

      Vo, Nguyen-Son; Duong, Trung Q.; Guizani, Mohsen ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      During a disaster, communication systems are partially (or completely) interrupted with very limited resources due to infrastructures destruction and hence the lack of essential services. Meanwhile, the demand for communication ...
    • The Quality of Urban Life (QOUL) of New-Salata Neighborhood in Qatar 

      Wadi, Rana; Furlan, Raffaello ( Scientific & Academic Publishing , 2017 , Article)
      During the second half of the 20th century Qatar has beheld its first urbanization period, which was caused by the increase of oil’s production. At present, national development strategies have led to an extensive urban ...
    • Quantification of carcinogenic odor of formaldehyde with electronic nose technologyd 

      Hassan, Muhammad; Umar, Muhammad; Bermak, Amine; Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Based on recent experimental discoveries about a link between the length of exposure to formaldehyde and cancers of the lymphatic and hematopoietic systems, we present a low-cost and compact solution for monitoring ...
    • Quantification of pv power and economic losses due to soiling in Qatar 

      Zeedan A.; Barakeh A.; Al-Fakhroo K.; Touati, Farid; Gonzales A.S.P.; ... more authors ( MDPI , 2021 , Article)
      Soiling losses of photovoltaic (PV) panels due to dust lead to a significant decrease in solar energy yield and result in economic losses; this hence poses critical challenges to the viability of PV in smart grid systems. ...
    • Quantification of structural damage with self-organizing maps 

      Abdeljaber, Osama; Avci, Onur; Do, Ngoan Tien; Gul, Mustafa; Celik, Ozan; ... more authors ( Springer New York LLC , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      One of the main tasks in structural health monitoring process is to create reliable algorithms that are capable of translating the measured response into meaningful information reflecting the actual condition of the monitored ...
    • Quantification of the growth suppression of HER2+ breast cancer colonies under the effect of trastuzumab and PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor. 

      Padmanabhan, Regina; Kheraldine, Hadeel; Gupta, Ishita; Meskin, Nader; Hamad, Anas; ... more authors ( Frontiers Media , 2022 , Article)
      Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB)-based therapy is revolutionizing cancer treatment by fostering successful immune surveillance and effector cell responses against various types of cancers. However, patients with HER2+ ...
    • Quantifying caching effects in urban VANETs 

      Bian, Chaoyi; Zhao, Tong; Li, Xiaoming; Du, Xiaojiang; Guizani, Mohsen; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Most applications in urban Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs) rely on information sharing, such as real-Time traffic information queries, advertisements, etc. However, existing data dissemination techniques cannot guarantee ...
    • Quantifying morphology of sands using 3D imaging 

      Alshibli Khalid A.; Druckrey Andrew M.; Al-Raoush Riyadh I.; Weiskittel Taylor; Lavrik Nickolay V. ( American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) , 2015 , Article)
      Particle morphology plays a significant role in influencing engineering behavior of granular materials. Surface texture, roundness, and sphericity represent distinct multiscale measures needed to fully describe particle ...