• Named Entity Disambiguation using Hierarchical Text Categorization 

      Hassaine, Abdelaali; Al Otaibi, Jameela; Jaoua, Ali ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Named entity extraction is an important step in natural language processing. It aims at finding the entities which are present in text such as organizations, places or persons. Named entities extraction is of a paramount ...
    • On Dependability Traffic Load and Energy Consumption Tradeoff in Data Center Networks 

      Chkirbene, Zina; Gouissem, Ala; Hamila, Ridha; Foufou, Sebti ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Mega data centers (DCs) are considered as efficient and promising infrastructures for supporting numerous cloud computing services such as online office, online social networking, Web search and IT infrastructure out-sourcing. ...
    • Plate: Problem-based Learning Authoring And Transformation Environment 

      Samaka, Mohammed; Miao, Yongwu; Imagliazzo, John; Wang, Disi; Ali, Ziad; ... more authors ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      The project entitled Problem-based Learning Authoring and Transformation Environment (PLATE) is housed at Qatar University. It is under the auspices of the Qatar National Priority Research Program (NPRP). The PLATE project ...
    • Pose Detection for Partially Occluded Persons in Spectator Crowds 

      Mahmood, Arif; Shaban, Muhammad; Idrees, Haroon; Rajpoot, Nasir M; Shah, Mubarak ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      In recent years, vision based solutions have shown improvement in performance for scenes containing single or few persons for the tasks of person detection, tracking, and action recognition. Dense crowd analysis is the ...
    • Robotic Probe Positioning System for Structural Health Monitoring 

      Ijaz, Ali; Akbar, Muhammad Ali; Qidwai, Uvais ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Structural health Monitoring (SHM) is a very critical component for sustainable civil and mechanical structures in modern urban settings. The sky-scrappers and huge bridges in modern metropolis today are essential aspects ...
    • Sentiment Analysis in Comments Associated to News Articles: Application to Al Jazeera Comments 

      Al-Kubaisi, Khalid; Hassaine, Abdelaali; Jaoua, Ali ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Sentiment analysis is a very important research task that aims at understanding the general sentiment of a specific community or group of people. Sentiment analysis of Arabic content is still in its early development stages. ...
    • ThreatBased Security Risk Evaluation in the Cloud 

      Nhlabatsi, Armstrong; Khan, Khaled; Fetais, Noora; Fernandez, Rachael; Hong, Jin; ... more authors ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Research ProblemCyber attacks are targeting the cloud computing systems, where enterprises, governments, and individuals are outsourcing their storage and computational resources for improved scalability and dynamic ...
    • Towards a K-12 Game-based Educational Platform with Automatic Student Monitoring: "INTELLIFUN" 

      Erbad, Aiman; Malaeb, Sarah; Ja'am, Jihad ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Since the twenty-first century, digital technologies are increasingly supporting teaching and learning activities. Because learning is effective when it starts early, advanced early years' educational tools are highly ...
    • Towards a multimodal classification of cultural heritage 

      Belhi, Abdelhak; Bouras, Abdelaziz ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      The humanity has always learned from the previous experiences and thus for many reasons. The national heritage proves to be a great way to discover and access a nation's history. As a result, these priceless cultural items ...
    • Towards a National Electronic Health Record in Qatar: Building on International Experiences 

      Alsaad, Rawan; Al-Ali, Rashid; Badji, Radja ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Background: During the past decade, the IT industry has introduced several new concepts within the health domain including e-health, electronic health record, digital hospital, and many more. Although each of these terms ...
    • Using virtual reality to allow paramedics to familiarise themselves with a new ambulance patient compartment design 

      Alinier, Guillaume; Salahuddin, Tooba; Karkar, AbdelGhani; Gueddes, Ahmed; Devaraj, Suresh; ... more authors ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2021 , Article)
      Background: Virtual reality (VR) is still an evolving domain that presents a versatile medium to simulate various environments and scenarios that can be easily reset between users, which can be particularly useful for ...
    • Vibration Energy Harvesting in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) 

      Ismail, Loay; Elorfali, Sara; Elfouly, Tarek ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Harvesting of vibration energy from the ambient environment, such as vibrations experienced by bridges due to vehicle movements, wind, earthquakes, has become an essential area of study by many scientists aiming to design ...
    • Virtual Reality Glove for Falconry 

      Al-Hathal, Turkea ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Falconry hunting is an Arabic traditional sport and has great significance in Qatari society, as it is a major part of their culture. Falconry is about hunting small birds or animals, by using different types of falcons. ...