Browsing College of Engineering by Publisher "Inderscience Publishers"
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Addressing security compatibility for multi-tenant cloud services
( Inderscience Publishers , 2013 , Article)This paper addresses the issue of compatibility checking between the security requirements of service clients and the security assurances provided by multi-tenant cloud services. To allow early detection of security ... -
An exact algorithm for the single machine problem with unavailability periods
( Inderscience Publishers , 2015 , Article)We investigate the single machine scheduling problem with job release dates and due dates, and multiple planned unavailability time periods. This problem arises in the context of machine scheduling with planned preventive ... -
Causes of construction change orders in Qatar: Contractors' perspective
( Inderscience Publishers , 2016 , Article)The construction industry involves complex processes which are prone to various changes and variations. However, it may be argued that the application of change orders within construction projects in the State of Qatar has ... -
Critical success factors of TQM: A UK study
( Inderscience Publishers , 2008 , Article)This paper has presented the results of a study on Critical Success Factors for Total Quality Management (TQM) implementation in UK organisations. A survey instrument (10 Success Factors) developed by Yusof and Aspinwall ... -
The design and applications of an innovative irrigation system for biofacades in hot arid climates
( Inderscience Publishers , 2022 , Article)Assessment of water requirements through physical sustainable means is essential to ensuring water security, which is at high risk in desert climates such as Doha, Qatar. The water requirements of biofacade systems are met ... -
DVF-fog: Distributed virtual firewall in fog computing based on risk analysis
( Inderscience Publishers , 2019 , Article)To eliminate network saturation during data exchanges, fog computing is deployed as the technology that benefits from both cloud computing and internet of things (IoT) paradigms. Therefore, we focus on network access control ... -
Editorial
( Inderscience Publishers , 2014 , Other)This issue presents a group of papers dealing with aspects of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for tourism. It expands the understanding and promotion of the efforts in this area and concerns both management ... -
Energetic and exergetic performance of NH3-H2O-based absorption refrigeration cycle: Effect of operating factor
( Inderscience Publishers , 2020 , Article)One of the major objectives while designing the vapour absorption refrigeration system (VARS) is to acquire better performance within the accessible heat source and sink temperature limit. In this paper, attempts are made ... -
Experimental investigation on the compressibility of Al/Al2O3 nanocomposites
( Inderscience Publishers , 2016 , Article)The scientific importance of nanocomposites is being increased due to their improved properties. This paper introduces an experimental investigation on the relationship between the reinforcement weight fraction and ... -
Improving signalised intersections performance for better built environment
( Inderscience Publishers , 2016 , Conference Paper)Traffic delays are still a significant part of the daily commutes in most urban areas despite significant investments in infrastructure. Policy, design and operational measures are usually taken to reduce emissions from ... -
ISO 9000 performance among the Malaysian companies: The effects of motives
( Inderscience Publishers , 2009 , Article)This paper presents the results of a study to identify the real motives behind ISO 9000 Certification. Towards this goal, a survey of some 300 ISO 9000 certified companies has been carried out for Malaysian manufacturing ... -
ISO 9000:2000 quality management standard: Experience in the state of Qatar
( Inderscience Publishers , 2008 , Article)The main purpose of this paper is to assess the experience of different organisations in the state of Qatar upon adopting the ISO 9000:2000 quality management standard. It is required to report the available motives, ... -
Multi-objective optimisation of facility location decisions within integrated forward/reverse logistics under uncertainty
( Inderscience Publishers , 2016 , Article)Increasing interest to the environmental, social and economic aspects of the supply chains has motivated supply chain managers to optimise location-allocation decisions within closed-loop logistics networks. This paper ... -
Orchestrating technology enhanced learning: A literature review and a conceptual framework
( Inderscience Publishers , 2011 , Other)The notion of 'orchestrating learning' has gained acceptance within the TEL research community in recent years. However, there is little consensus about what 'orchestration' means, and what orchestrating learning in a ... -
Policy-based customisation and corrective adaptation of composite web services
( Inderscience Publishers , 2011 , Article)Due to the typical long-running character of business processes, it is often desirable to be able to change a running process to respond to changes of business requirements and company policies. However, current process ... -
Policy-Based Customization and Corrective Adaptation of Composite Web Services
( Inderscience Publishers , 2010 , Article)Due to the typical long-running character of business processes, it is often desirable to be able to change a running process. Common scenarios include the occurrence of faults, the change of business requirements and ... -
Principles and recommendations for client information requirements for BIM enabled construction projects in Qatar
( Inderscience Publishers , 2016 , Article)Employer's information requirements (EIR) is one of the key early documents in projects using building information modelling (BIM). EIR, introduced by the UK BIM Task Group, sets out information deliverables and the standards ... -
Relevance of lifecycle management to smart city development
( Inderscience Publishers , 2018 , Article)Smart cities are complex ecosystems with interrelated systems or system of systems. Hence, management of smart cities is very important due to the big number of stakeholders, diversity of application domains, heterogeneity ... -
Second law analysis of a gravity-driven liquid film flowing along an inclined plate subjected to constant wall temperature
( Inderscience Publishers , 2014 , Article)The second law analysis of a gravity-driven liquid having temperature-dependent viscosity and flowing along an inclined heated plate was studied. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) package FLUENT was used to obtain the ... -
Solar thermochemical Dy2O3/DyO water splitting cycle for hydrogen production
( Inderscience Publishers , 2017 , Article)The thermodynamic analyses of the dysprosium oxide-based water splitting (Dy-WS) cycle are reported in this paper. The first step of the Dy-WS cycle involves thermal reduction of Dy2O3, whereas water splitting reaction is ...
