College of Engineering: Recent submissions

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    • Protecting Manufacturing Supply Chains Through PLM - Blockchain Integration and Data Model Encapsulation 

      Belhi, Abdelhak; Bouras, Abdelaziz ( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2024 , Conference)
      Product design is often a process that involves multiple parties collaborating with each other to design a final product. The involvement of multiple parties induces several risks associated with cyber security and ...

    • Blockchain driven supply chains and enterprise information systems 

      Bouras, Abdelaziz; Khalil, Ibrahim; Aouni, Belaid ( Springer International Publishing , 2022 , Book)
      Blockchain Driven Supply Chains and Enterprise Information Systems examines initiatives for blockchain implementation in supply chain management and the integration of blockchain technology with existing enterprise management ...

    • Designing an efficient consensus protocol for supply chain 

      Saidur Rahman, Mohammad; Khalil, Ibrahim; Bouras, Abdelaziz ( Springer International Publishing , 2022 , Book chapter)
      Blockchain is being a game-changer for digital supply chain systems to enable traceability and immutability. The consensus mechanism is the key technology that powers the immutability of data stored in the blockchain. As ...

    • A review on missing values for main challenges and methods 

      Lijuan, Ren; Wang, Tao; Sekhari Seklouli, Aicha; Zhang, Haiqing; Bouras, Abdelaziz ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article Review)
      Several recent reviews summarize common missing value analysis methods. However, none of them provide a systematic and in-depth summary of the analytical challenges and solutions for dealing with missing values. For the ...

    • Deep learning-based automatic analysis of legal contracts: a named entity recognition benchmark 

      Aejas, Bajeela; Belhi, Abdelhak; Zhang, Haiqing; Bouras, Abdelaziz ( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2024 , Article)
      Entity recognition and extraction from contracts play a crucial role in automating contract analysis and extracting valuable information. Named Entity Recognition (NER) techniques are used for identifying and classifying ...

    • Blockchain technology regulation: Time for standardized frameworks 

      Hammi, Assam; Jinugu, Anjaneyulu; Bouaoud, Malike; Hefnawy, Ahmed; Bouras, Abdelaziz ( Springer International Publishing , 2022 , Book chapter)
      In an age of rich data and information streams, the governments' role with regard to new technology in terms of regulation is continuously changing. Novel areas for this era of big data must be considered when introducing ...

    • A Prediction Framework for Lifestyle-Related Disease Prediction Using Healthcare Data 

      Ren, Lijuan; Zhang, Haiqing; Seklouli, Aicha Sekhari; Wang, Tao; Bouras, Abdelaziz ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2023 , Conference)
      With the improvement of living standards and changes in work habits caused by industrialization, the prevalence of diseases related to lifestyle is rising. In this context, the prevention of lifestyle-related diseases ...

    • Experimental analysis of free-standing and substrate-constrained Ga-doped ZnO nanostructured thermoelectric films 

      Aicha S., Lemine; Bhadra, Jolly; Popelka, Anton; Maurya, Muni Raj; Sadasivuni, Kishor Kumar; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)
      Developing thermoelectric films without substrates—free-standing films—eliminates substrate-induced effects on performance and meets the flexibility requirements of emerging wearable thermoelectric applications. This study ...

    • Ethics and Regulation in Metaverse: Risks, Current Approaches, and Way Forward 

      Tabassum, Aliya; Elmahjub, Ezieddin; Qadir, Junaid ( Springer Nature , 2024 , Book chapter)
      The metaverse is rapidly gaining momentum as the next phase of virtual reality, offering an innovative interactive platform for learning, economics, and social activities. This three-dimensional environment is designed to ...

    • Navigating Privacy Challenges in the Metaverse: A Comprehensive Examination of Current Technologies and Platforms 

      Basyoni, Lamiaa; Tabassum, Aliya; Shaban, Khaled; Elmahjub, Ezieddin; Halabi, Osama; ... more authors ( IEEE , 2024 , Article)
      The metaverse's rise brings unique privacy challenges. While existing research has broadly surveyed security and privacy in this domain, our article provides a targeted analysis of user privacy within notable VR/MR devices ...

    • QU at TREC-2013: Expansion Experiments for Microblog Ad hoc Search 

      Maram Hasanain; Latifa Al-Marri; Elsayed, Tamer ( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2013 , Conference)
      In the first appearance of Qatar University (QU) at Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), our submitted microblog runs explored different ways of expanding the context of both queries and tweets to overcome the sparsity and ...

    • Query performance prediction for microblog search: A preliminary study 

      Hasanain, Maram; Malhas, Rana; Elsayed, Tamer ( Association for Computing Machinery, Inc , 2014 , Conference)
      Microblogging has recently become an integral part of the daily life of millions of people around the world. With a continuous flood of posts, microblogging services (e.g., Twitter) have to effectively handle millions of ...

    • Improving tweet timeline generation by predicting optimal retrieval depth 

      Hasanain, Maram; Elsayed, Tamer; Magdy, Walid ( Springer Verlag , 2015 , Conference)
      Tweet Timeline Generation (TTG) systems provide users with informative and concise summaries of topics, as they developed over time, in a retrospective manner. In order to produce a tweet timeline that constitutes a summary ...

    • QU at TREC-2014: Online Clustering with Temporal and Topical Expansion for Tweet Timeline Generation 

      Hasanain, Maram; Elsayed, Tamer ( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2014 , Conference)
      In this work, we present our participation in the microblog track in TREC-2014, building upon our first participation last year. We present our approaches for the two tasks of this year: temporally-anchored ad-hoc search ...

    • Adaptive method for following dynamic topics on twitter 

      Magdy, Walid; Elsayed, Tamer ( The AAAI Press , 2014 , Conference)
      Many research social studies of public response on social media require following (i.e., tracking) topics on Twitter for long periods of time. The current approaches rely on streaming tweets based on some hashtags or ...

    • Identification of answer-seeking questions in Arabic microblogs 

      Hasanain, Maram; Elsayed, Tamer; Magdy, Walid ( Association for Computing Machinery , 2014 , Conference)
      Over the past years, Twitter has earned a growing reputation as a hub for communication, and events advertisement and tracking. However, several recent research studies have shown that Twitter users (and microblogging ...

    • Detecting automatically-generated Arabic tweets 

      Almerekhi, Hind; Elsayed, Tamer ( Springer Verlag , 2015 , Conference)
      Recently, Twitter, one of the most widely-known social media platforms, got infiltrated by several automation programs, commonly known as "bots". Bots can be easily abused to spread spam and hinder information extraction ...

    • Real, Live, and Concise: Answering Open-Domain Questions with Word Embedding and Summarization 

      Malhas, Rana; Torki, Marwan; Ali, Rahma; Yulianti, Evi; Elsayed, Tamer ( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2016 , Conference)
      Resorting to community question answering (CQA) websites for finding answers has gained momentum in the recent years with the explosive rate at which social media has been proliferating. With many questions left unanswered ...

    • AyaTEC: Building a Reusable Verse-Based Test Collection for Arabic Question Answering on the Holy Qur'an 

      Malhas, Rana; Elsayed, Tamer ( Association for Computing Machinery , 2020 , Article)
      The absence of publicly available reusable test collections for Arabic question answering on the Holy Qur'an has impeded the possibility of fairly comparing the performance of systems in that domain. In this article, we ...

    • bigIR at TREC 2019: Graph-based Analysis for News Background Linking 

      Essam, Marwa; Elsayed, Tamer ( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2019 , Conference)
      Nowadays, it is very rare to find an online news article that is self-contained with everything a reader would want to know about the article's story. Therefore, it became vital for any article to contain links to other ...