College of Engineering: Recent submissions
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Greedy algorithms and metaheuristics for a multiple runway combined arrival-departure aircraft sequencing problem
( Elsevier , 2013 , Article)This paper examines the Aircraft Sequencing Problem (ASP) over multiple runways, under mixed mode operations with the objective of minimizing the total weighted tardiness of aircraft landings and departures simultaneously. ... -
Meta-heuristics for aircraft arrival and departure scheduling on multiple runways
( Institute of Industrial Engineers , 2012 , Conference Paper)The problem of scheduling aircrafts on multiple runways can be modeled as an identical parallel machine scheduling with release times, target times and deadlines. To schedule arriving and departing aircrafts as close as ... -
Heuristic algorithms for aircraft sequencing problem
(2012 , Conference Paper)Delays in flights resulting in multi-billion-dollar losses are declared annually worldwide. Hence, an identification of air traffic policies that can reduce frequent and costly inefficiencies is needed. The problem of ... -
Multiple-runway aircraft sequencing problems using mixed-integer programming
( Institute of Industrial Engineers , 2012 , Conference Paper)We examine aircraft sequencing problems over multiple runways, under mixed mode operations, with the objective of minimizing the total weighted tardiness of aircraft landings and departures. A mixed-integer programming ... -
Smartphone-based Vehicle Telematics for Naturalistic Driving Studies
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Conference Paper)Motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) are the eighth leading cause of death worldwide. Globally, there are 1.35 million deaths with 50 million injuries annually. It is important to understand and record how people drive and ... -
Solving a Bus Routing Problem Arising in Doha
( IEEE Computer Society , 2022 , Conference Paper)The generic variant of the school bus routing problem requires finding a set of routes that cover a predefined set of student pickup locations in order to minimize travel time while satisfying various constraints. In this ... -
Comprehensive performance analysis and optimization of 1,3-dimethylimidazolylium dimethylphosphate-water binary mixture for a single effect absorption refrigeration system
( Higher Education Press Limited Company , 2022 , Article)The energy and exergy analyses of the absorption refrigeration system (ARS) using H2O-[mmim][DMP] mixture were investigated for a wide range of temperature. The equilibrium Dühring (P-T-XIL) and enthalpy (h-T-XIL) of mixture ... -
Thermodynamic analysis and experimental validation of multi-composition ammonia liquor absorption engine cycle for power generation
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2020 , Article)Energy conservation, utilization, and effective integration are of utmost importance for future sustenance. Accordingly, this work focuses on the generation of power from the low-grade temperature below 150°C. A proposed ... -
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 ... -
Thermocatalytic splitting of CO2 into fuels using sol-gel derived ni-mg-ferrite
( American Institute of Chemical Engineers , 2019 , Conference Paper)In this work, we reports combination of metal cation (Ni+2 and Mg+2) as an active dopant into ferrite for two step thermochemical cycle for CO2 splitting into CO. All NMF materials were synthesized via sol gel method and ... -
Evacuated tube heat pipe solar collector for Encontech engine-driven reverse osmosis solar desalination
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2020 , Article)Utilization of a single evacuated tube heat pipe solar collector (ETHPSC) for the efficient deployment of the solar energy toward driving the Encontech heat engine for reverse osmosis desalination is considered in this ... -
Investigation of Zr-doped ceria for solar thermochemical valorization of CO2
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2020 , Article)This study belongs to the estimation of the CO2 conversion ability of Ce1−xZr xO2 (CZ) materials performing multiple thermogravimetric CO2 splitting (CDS) cycles. By varying the molar concentrations of Zr in the range of ... -
Synthesis and characterization of electroactive novel poly-2-cynoaniline
( Indian Academy of Sciences , 2014 , Article)Uniform needle-like structures of poly-2-cynoaniline are formed without the use of any template by electrochemical oxidative polymerization method on copper electrode in acidic medium. The structural characterizations are ... -
Light-weight, Conservative, yet Effective: Scalable Real-time Tweet Summarization
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Microblogging platforms and Twitter specifically have become a major resource for exploring diverse topics of interest that vary from the world's breaking news to other topics such as sports, science, religion and even ... -
QU at TREC-2015: Building Real-Time Systems for Tweet Filtering and Question Answering
( 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. ... -
Exploiting Live Feedback for Tweet Real-time Push Notifications
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2017 , Conference Paper)Twitter has been developed as an immense information creation and sharing network through which users post diverse information. Although a user would regularly check her Twitter timeline to stay up-to-date on her topics ... -
IDRISI-RE: A generalizable dataset with benchmarks for location mention recognition on disaster tweets
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)While utilizing Twitter data for crisis management is of interest to different response authorities, a critical challenge that hinders the utilization of such data is the scarcity of automated tools that extract geolocation ... -
IDRISI-RA: The First Arabic Location Mention Recognition Dataset of Disaster Tweets
( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2023 , Conference Paper)Extracting geolocation information from social media data enables effective disaster management, as it helps response authorities; for example, in locating incidents for planning rescue activities, and affected people for ... -
Are We Ready for this Disaster? Towards Location Mention Recognition from Crisis Tweets
( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2020 , Conference Paper)The widespread usage of Twitter during emergencies has provided a new opportunity and timely resource to crisis responders for various disaster management tasks. Geolocation information of pertinent tweets is crucial for ... -
Overview of the CLEF-2018 checkthat! lab on automatic identification and verification of political claims
( Springer Verlag , 2018 , Conference Paper)We present an overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims. In its starting year, the lab featured two tasks. Task 1 asked to predict which (potential) claims ...