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Rheology of upstream complex fluids
( Elsevier , 2023 , Book chapter)Rheology is an important characterizing technique as it affects all types of fluids. While oil and gas recovery is an operation that depends mainly on the interaction between different fluids, it is therefore important to ... -
Ride-through capability enhancement of VSC-HVDC based wind farms using low speed flywheel energy storage system
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Conference Paper)Reliable balancing of active power generated via wind farms is vital for power system stability and for maintaining system frequency deviations within acceptable limits. This paper presents a backup power balancing technique ... -
Ride-through capability of grid-connected brushless cascade DFIG wind turbines in faulty grid conditions-A comparative study
( IEEE , 2013 , Article)Doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG)-based wind turbines (WTs) are reported to suffer reliability problems due to the presence of slip-rings, brushes, and the gearbox. These disadvantages encouraged several research groups ... -
Ridge penalization-based generalized linear model (GzLM) for predicting risky-driving index
( IEOM Society , 2018 , Conference Paper)Road traffic crashes remain one of the major causes of preventable death and injury worldwide. Human behavior is considered one of the main factors leading to such tragic losses. In this paper, we analyze the responses of ... -
Ridge Penalization-based weighting approach for Eco-Efficiency assessment: The case in the food industry in the United States
( IOP Publishing Ltd , 2020 , Conference Paper)Eco-efficiency assessment is of great importance for monitoring and managing environmental and economic aspects of sustainable development. The eco-efficiency indicators are required to assess and measure the impact of ... -
Risk analysis with the dempster-shafer theory for smart city planning: The case of qatar
( MDPI , 2021 , Article)Smart cities support the enhancement of the quality of life of their residents, for which the use of a robust integrated platform of information and communication technology is required. However, not all cities have similar ... -
Risk assessment of accidental spills of toxic and flammable liquids on land
( Emerald Publishing , 2004 , Master Thesis)The main objective of this paper is the assessment of the environmental impact due to accidental spills of toxic and flammable liquids on land. Different case studies of possible accidents in the State of Qatar were ... -
Risk based life cycle assessment conceptual framework for energy supply systems in large buildings
( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)This paper proposes an environmental assessment framework that integrates the conventional life cycle assessment (LCA) with risk assessment for the purpose of evaluating energy conservation systems in buildings from ... -
Risk of Traffic Incident Delay in Routing and Scheduling of Hazardous Materials
( Springer New York LLC , 2016 , Article)Unlike normal traffic incidents, incidents involving hazardous material are associated with significant traffic delays. The model of the hazardous material routing and scheduling problem presented in this paper considers ... -
Risk-constrained scheduling of solar Stirling engine based industrial continuous heat treatment furnace
( Elsevier , 2018 , Article)This paper presents a novel framework for designing and optimal scheduling of an air source heat pump based industrial continuous heat treatment furnace (ICHTF) which is driven by a solar Stirling engine and a wind turbine. ... -
Risk-Management Framework and Information-Security Systems for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs): A Meta-Analysis Approach
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2023 , Article)Information-technology (IT) security standards are regularly updated in a rapidly changing technological world to maintain pace with advanced technologies. This study was motivated by the realization that established IT ... -
RL-Assisted Energy-Aware User-Edge Association for IoT-based Hierarchical Federated Learning
(2022 , Conference Paper)The extremely heavy global reliance on IoT devices is causing enormous amounts of data to be gathered and shared in IoT networks. Such data need to efficiently be used in training and deploying of powerful artificially ... -
RL-Based Federated Learning Framework Over Blockchain (RL-FL-BC)
( IEEE , 2023 , Article)Federated learning (FL) paradigms aim to amalgamate diverse data properties stored locally at each user, while preserving data privacy through sharing users’ learning experiences and iteratively aggregating their ... -
RL-DistPrivacy: Privacy-Aware Distributed Deep Inference for Low Latency IoT Systems
( IEEE Computer Society , 2022 , Article)Although Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have become the backbone technology of several ubiquitous applications, their deployment in resource-constrained machines, e.g., Internet of Things (IoT) devices, is still challenging. ... -
RL-OPRA: Reinforcement Learning for Online and Proactive Resource Allocation of crowdsourced live videos
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)© 2020 Elsevier B.V. With the advancement of rich media generating devices, the proliferation of live Content Providers (CP), and the availability of convenient internet access, crowdsourced live streaming services have ... -
RL-PDNN: Reinforcement Learning for Privacy-Aware Distributed Neural Networks in IoT Systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)Due to their high computational and memory demand, deep learning applications are mainly restricted to high-performance units, e.g., cloud and edge servers. Particularly, in Internet of Things (IoT) systems, the data ... -
RLENS: RL-based Energy-Efficient Network Selection Framework for IoMT
( IEEE , 2022 , Conference Paper)With the emergence of smart health (s-health) applications and services, several requirements for quality have arisen to foresee and react instantaneously to emergency circumstances. Such requirements demand fast-acting ... -
Road safety status during COVID-19 pandemic: exploring public and road safety expert’s opinions
( Taylor & Francis , 2022 , Article)The main objective of this study is to investigate the status of traffic safety and the public perception of traffic safety during the during COVID-19 pandemic. Three different data sets are used in this study: road crash ... -
Road users' behavior at marked Crosswalks on channelized right-turn lanes at intersections in the state of Qatar
( MDPI AG , 2019 , Article)At non-signalized marked crosswalks, pedestrian priority is neither well-defined nor well acknowledged by drivers. This paper presents the findings of an investigation on both driver and pedestrian behavior at non-signalized ... -
Roadmap toward energy-positive upfront nitrogen removal process in baseload LNG plant
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2022 , Article)The use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has grown over the last decade owing to an increase in the global energy demand. This work presents a pioneering approach for rigorous simulation of an actual cold section of an LNG ...