Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings Volume 2016 Issue 1

Limitations on the wireless communication resources (i.e., time and frequency) introduces the need for another domain that can help communication systems to match the increasing demand on high data transfer rates and quality of service (QoS). By using multiple antennas. Besides, the widespread use of wireless technology and its ease of access makes the privacy of the information, transferred over the wi Read More

Since the Internet of Things (IoT) will be entwined with everything we use in our daily life, the consequence of security flaws escalates. Smart objects will govern most of the home appliances and car engines yielding potential disaster scenarios. In this context, successful attacks could lead to chaos and scary scenarios (www.darkreading.com). Unprotected personal information may expose sensitive and embarrassing data t Read More

In the digital era, India's national security has extricably been linked with its cyber security. However, although India has digitalized its governance, economy and daily life on an industrial scale, it has never paid adequate attention to adopt a programme side-by-side to securitize its digitalization plan. Resultantly, not only India's cyber space but also its physical spheres have been exposed and facing constant attacks from its rivals Read More

Online Social Networks become the medium for a plethora of applications such as targeted advertising and recommendation services, collaborative filtering, behavior modeling and pre- diction, analysis and identification of aggressive behavior, bullying and stalking, cultural trend monitoring, epidemic studies, crowd mood reading and tracking, revelation of terrorist net- works, even political deliberation. They mainly aim to pr Read More

Background and Objectives: As English is a stress-timed language, lexical stress plays an important role in the perception and processing of speech by native speakers. Incorrect stress placement can reduce the intelligibility of the speaker and their ability to communicate more effectively. The accurate identification of lexical stress patterns is thus a key assessment tool of the speaker's pronunciation in applications such as seco Read More

1. Introduction Artificial Intelligence or A.I attempts to understand intelligent entities, and strives to build ones. And it is obvious that computers with human-level intelligence (or more) would have huge impact in our everyday lives and the future. A student in physics might reasonably feel that all the good ideas have already been taken by Galileo, Newton, Einstein, and the rest, and that it takes many years of study before one can Read More

I. Abstract: Smart cities are collecting and producing massive amount of data from various data sources such as local weather stations, LIDAR data, mobile phones sensors, Internet of Things (iOT) etc. To use such large volume of data for potential daily computing benets, it is important to store and analyse such amount of urban data using handy computing resources and al-gorithms. However, this can be problematic due to ma Read More

We would like to propose a panel which discusses this paper but includes special guests from the International and Qatar Humanitarian community to talk about the future of humanitarian research in the MENA region. Abstract: In the new era of data abundance, procedures for crisis and disaster response have changed. As relief forces struggle with assistance on the ground, digital humanitarians step in to provide a collec Read More

Quinones are oxidants; colorants; electrophiles and involved in the electron transfer process of important biological functions such as photosynthesis, respiration, phosphorylation etc. In earth, photosynthesis is the main biological process which converts solar energy into chemical energy. By producing oxygen and assimilating carbon dioxide, it supports the existence of virtually all higher life forms. It is driven by tw Read More