Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings Volume 2014 Issue 1

In 2013, it was estimated that over 382 million people throughout the world suffered from diabetes. Despite the numerous treatment approaches to manage this condition, diabetic patients continue to suffer from various symptoms and complications. These include, but are not limited to, retinopathy, nephropathy, peripheral and autonomic neuropathy, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, cardiovascular, and cerebral symptom Read More

Any global enterprise, such as, Qatar National Bank, with branches in many countries is an example of an Application Service Provider (ASP) that uses multiple cloud data centers to serve their customers. Depending upon the time of the day, the number of users at different location changes and the ASPs need to rescale their operation at each data center to meet the demand at that location. ASPs are facing a great challeng Read More

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 seeks to improve student learning using innovative approaches to problem-based learning (PBL) in a cost-effective, flexible, interoperable, and reusable manner. Traditional subject-based learning that Read More

Electricity consumption has increased substantially over the last decade. According to the Gulf Research Center (2013), residential sector represents the largest portion (about 50%) of electricity consumption in the GCC region, due to substantial growth of electrical residential appliances. Therefore, we present a novel online smart residential load management system that is used to monitor and control power Read More

The emergence of V2X (Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure) networks lends a significant support for the Intelligent Transportation Systems to improve many applications for different purposes such as safety, traffic efficiency and added-value services. Typically, such environment is distinguished by its mobility and topology dynamics over space and time. Moreover, these applications need to collect an Read More

To gather and transmit data, low cost wireless devices are often deployed in open, unattended and possibly hostile environment making them particularly vulnerable to physical attacks. Resilience is needed to mitigate such inherent vulnerabilities and risks related to security and reliability. In this work, Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) is studied in presence of packet dropping malicious compromised Read More

"The Data Analytics group at QCRI has embarked on an ambitious endeavor to become a premiere world-class research group in Data Science by tackling diverse research topics related to information extraction, data quality, data profiling, data integration, and data mining. We will present our ongoing projects to overcome different challenges encountered in Big Data Curation, Big Data Fusion, and Big Data Analytics. (1) Big Dat Read More

إن من المؤشرات العلمية التي خرجت بها بعض الدراسات حول أسباب ضعف الانتاج الفكري العربي وضعف المحتوى الرقمي في قواعد البيانات العالمية هو غياب البرامج المحوسبة التي تعنى بتحليل المراجع والاستشهادات المرجعية (العربية) الورادة في هذا الانتاج، وانعدام البرامج الآلية التي تقدم مؤشرات احصائية (ببليومترية) تبرز التوجه البحثي العربي، وتعين صناع القرار في المؤسسات البحثية والأكاديمية والباحثين أيضا في توجيه مسار البحث العلمي العربي ومعرفة نقاط القوة والضعف في التخصصات العربية المبحوث فيها، Read More

The increased use of remote laboratories for online education has made network security issues ever more critical. To defend against numerous new types of potential attacks, the complexity of network firewalls has been significantly increased. Consequently, the network firewall will inevitably limit the real time remote experimental data transmission. To solve the issue of traversing network firewalls, we designed and Read More