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Novel Techniques for Blockchain-enabled IoT Systems Leveraging Reinforcement Learning
(Computing, 2020 , Master Thesis)
In the last decade, blockchain and Smart Contracts (SCs) have attracted unprecedented
attention in academia and industry due to their technical innovation of providing
an immutable distributed ledger with secure cryptographic ...
Rail Robot for Rail Track Inspection
(Computing, 2020 , Master Thesis)
Railway transportation requires constant inspections and immediate maintenance to ensure public safety. Traditional manual inspections are not only time consuming, but also expensive. In addition, the accuracy of defect ...
Capacity Analysis of Single-Lane Roundabouts in The State of Qatar
(Civil Engineering, 2020 , Master Thesis)
This master thesis presents capacity analysis of Single-Lane roundabouts in the State of Qatar. The aim of this paper is to update Qatar highway manual, by developing a new capacity model using empirical data collected ...
Work force assignment and planning for onshore oil and gas wells cementing operations
(Engineering Management, 2016 , Professional Masters Project)
In oil and gas well cementing operations, workers are exposed to long consecutive hours of work and irregular off times due to the nature of such service and inefficient workforce assignment. Overloading human resources ...
CAPACITY IMPROVEMENT AND CYCLE TIME REDUCTION USING VALUE STREAM MAPPING AND SIMULATION FOR A PRODUCTION PLANT IN QATAR, A CASE STUDY
(Engineering Management, 2017 , Professional Masters Project)
This Project deals with a real life problem of a construction company, and is about capacity mismatches between different manufacturing modules. This mismatch badly influences the production and results in increased cycle ...
SERVQUAL DIMENSION ANALYSIS AT HBKU STUDENTS HOUSING FACILITIES
(Engineering Management, 2017 , Professional Masters Project)
In this competitive era, the improvement of any organization robustly relies on increasing their customer satisfaction about the provided services. It is more important to provide the customers with what they want especially ...
ASSESSMENT OF NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY IN DOHA
(Urban Planning & Design, 2017 , Master Thesis)
Well-functioning urban environments are good causes of societies living healthily and happily. The performance of the public realm plays an important role, in this regard, where societies are in direct contact with their ...
Modeling Family Behaviors in Crowd Simulation
(Computing, 2017 , Master Thesis)
Modeling human behavior for a general situation is difficult, if not impossible. Crowd simulation represents one of the approaches most commonly used to model such behavior. It is mainly concerned with modeling the different ...
Simulation of sulfur recovery process and optimization of the main operational parameters
(Engineering Management, 2016 , Professional Masters Project)
Strict environmental regulations has pushed sulfur emissions from natural gas and crude
oil refining plants to very low levels. The current and most widely used method for
reducing those emissions is the Claus sulfur ...
Causes of Cost-Overrun in Construction Projects
(Engineering Management, 2016 , Professional Masters Project)
Cost overrun in construction projects is a common issue affecting project performance. After a review of the literature, a list of 39 cost overrun attributes were gathered and presented in a survey questionnaire. The survey ...