Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings Volume 2016 Issue 1

Background As the number of handheld devices increases, wireless data traffic is expanding exponentially. With the ever increasing demand of higher data rate, it will be very challenging for the system designers to meet the requirement using limited Radio Frequency (RF) communication spectrum. One of the possible remedies to overcome this problem is the use of freely available visible light spectrum [1]. Introduction T Read More

One of the characteristics of writing in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is that the commonly used orthography is mostly consonantal and does not provide full vocalization of the text. It sometimes includes optional diacritical marks (henceforth, diacritics or vowels). Arabic script consists of two classes of symbols: letters and diacritics. Letters comprise long vowels such as A, y, w as well as consonants. Diacritics on the other han Read More

Introduction This research aims to enhance the culture of data in education which is in the middle of a major transformation by technology and Big Data Analytics. The core purpose of schools is providing an excellent education to every learner; data can be the leverage of that mission. Big data analytics is the process of examining large sets containing a variety of data types to uncover hidden patterns, unknown correlations, ma Read More

1.Introduction Social media gives us instant access to a continuous stream of information generated by users around the world. This enables real-time monitoring of users’ behavior (Abbar et al., 2015), events’ life-cycles (Weng and Lee. 2010), and large-scale analysis of human interactions in general. Social media platforms are also used to propagate influence, spread content, and share information about events happening in Read More

This paper addresses an important problem in the aircraft traffic management caused by the rapid growth of air traffic. The air route traffic control center has to deal with different plans of airlines in which they specify a requested entry time of their aircraft to the airspace. Each flight has to be assigned to a track and a level in order to ensure the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety standards. When two flights are assign Read More

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is a promising solution to increase the lifetime of wireless nodes and hence alleviate the energy bottleneck of energy constrained wireless networks. To recent days, there are three different designs of SWIPT system which includes integrated SWIPT, closed-loop SWIPT, decoupled SWIPT. Integrated SWIPT is the simplest design where power and information are extra Read More

The field of plasmonics is continuously attracting research in the area of integrated photonics development, to highly integrate photonic components, devices and detectors in a single photonic chip, just as electronic chips containing many electronic components. The interesting properties that plasmonics offer include the electromagnetic fields enhancement and the confinement of the propagating surface plasm Read More

Handled devices and software applications are susceptible to ameliorate learning strength, awareness, and career development. Many mobile-based learning applications are obtainable from the market but Arabic learning shortage is not taken in consideration. We conduct an Arabic Text-to-Picture (TTP) mobile educational application which performs knowledge extraction and concept analysis to generate pictures that rep Read More

Our research is focused on expanding the reach and impact of Arabic language news articles by attracting more readers. In pursuit of this research goal, we analyze attributes that result in certain news articles becoming viral, relative to other news articles that do not become viral or so viral. Specifically, we focus on Arabic language news articles, as Arabic language articles have unique linguistic, cultural, and social constrains Read More

Education of deaf children in the developing world is very dire and there is a dearth of sign language interpreters to assist them with translation for sign language-dependent students in the classrooms. Illiteracy within the deaf population is rampant. Over the past several years, a unique team of Moroccan and American deaf and hearing researchers have united to enhance the literacy of deaf students by creating tools that incorp Read More