Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings Volume 2018 Issue 3

One of the main suppliers of the workforce for the engineering industry and the economy in general is the higher education sector. The higher education sector is consistently being challenged by the fast evolving industry and hence it is under constant pressure to fulfill the industry's ever-changing needs. It needs to adapt its academic curricula to supply the industry with students who have update-to-date and relevant co Read More

Many statistics show the number of connected devices (Internet of Things; IoT) worldwide to grow drastically in the next few years, to exceed 30 billion just by 2020. All these devices need to be connected to the internet, to establish tow ways communication with the backend applications. The list of applications and services that can be enabled by using IoT can be endless, covering different areas such as smart cities, smart ho Read More

Extended AbstractPeople increasingly use social media such as Facebook and Twitter during disasters and emergencies. Research studies have demonstrated the usefulness of social media information for a number of humanitarian relief operations ranging from situational awareness to actionable information extraction. Moreover, the use of social media platforms during sudden-onset disasters could potentially bridge th Read More

According to Energy Technology Perspectives 2014, there are approximately 900 million light duty vehicles (not counting two- and three-wheelers) today, and that number will be doubled by 2050 to reach 2 billion. Such a considerable increase will bring-in further challenges for road safety and traffic efficiency. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for children and young adults in the United States, with an annual Read More

Twitter has been developed as an immense information creation and sharing network through which users post information. Information could vary from the world»s breaking news to other topics such as sports, science, religion, and even personal daily updates. Although a user would regularly check her Twitter timeline to stay up-to-date on her topics of interest, it is impossible to cope with manual tracking of those topics while t Read More

Complex adaptive systems exhibit emergent behavior. This type of behavior occurs in volatile environments involving cyber-physical systems, such as those aimed at smart cities operations. Adaptive systems’ maintenance aims at improving their performance by dealing with the treatment of continuous and frequently changing requirements. Adaptive systems’ behavior requires therefore up-to-date requirements traceability. Read More

Technology always seeks to improve the little details in our lives for a faster and a more efficient life-pace. One of these little problems we face in our daily lives is finding relevant events. For example you visit a place like Katara with your kids and you spend your time in vain looking for a fun event, and after you leave the venue a friend of yours tells you about this interesting “Henna and face painting workshop organized in b Read More

Tremendous interest in visualizing massive datasets has promoted tiled-display wall systems that offer an immersive and collaborative environment with an extremely high-resolution. To achieve an efficient visualization, the rendering process should be parallelized and distributed among multiple nodes. The Data Observatory at Imperial College London has a unique setup consisting of 64 screens powered by 32 machines providing Read More

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 of the prosperity and development of a country but at the same time they present a great challenge in terms of maintaining and sustaining the structures in a good health. Due to the complex designs of the Read More

Obesity is one of the major health risk factors behind the rise of non-communicable conditions. Understanding the factors influencing obesity is very complex since there are many variables that can affect the health behaviors leading to it. Nowadays, multiple data sources can be used to study health behaviors, such as wearable sensors for physical activity and sleep, social media, mobile and health data. In this paper we Read More