Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings Volume 2018 Issue 3

Mobile learning can help in accelerating the students’ learning strengths and comprehension skills. Due to the immediacy and effectiveness of mobile learning, many mobile educational systems with diverse assessments techniques have been proposed. However, we observe a common limitation in existing assessments techniques, such as, the learner cannot correlate question and answer choices or freely adapt answer Read More

Online news media provides aggregated news and stories from different sources all over the world and up-to-date news coverage. The main goal of this study is to find a solution that is considered as a homogeneous source for the news and to represent the news in a new conceptual framework. Furthermore, the user can easily and quickly find different updated news in a fast way through the designed interface. The Read More

In this work, an underwater visible light communications (VLC) vertical link performance is evaluated. Underwater environment is known of its inhomogeneous nature versus depth. A mathematical model for the received power (Pr) is derived and bit error rates (BER) are computed under different underwater conditions. A numerical example is given for illustration of the deduced model. Our results suggest that an optimu Read More

In this work, we present Qatar Computing Research Institute»s live speech translation system. Our system works with both Arabic and English. It is designed using an array of modern web technologies to capture speech in real time, and transcribe and translate it using state-of-the-art Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Machine Translation (MT) systems. The platform is designed to be useful in a wide variety of situations like Read More

Introduction: The last decades have been remarkably noticed by an explosive growth of myriad applications in wireless communications, which become an inevitable part of everyday life. Apparently, such services can be characterized by high data content and consequently require high data rates. With respect to the fundamentals of information theory, the data rate at which information can be delivered to the receiver Read More

Falconry hunting is an Arabic traditional sport and has great significance in Qatari society, as it is a major part of their culture. Falconry is about hunting small birds or animals, by using different types of falcons. The falconry in virtual reality (VR) can preserve Qatari culture by making the sport easy to access for all stream of people. The main idea behind this project is to educate and experience real time falconry to the p Read More

We propose to demonstrate DRS, a novel dynamic resource scheduler module for distributed stream processing engines (SPEs). The main idea is to model the system response time as a function of input characteristics, including the volume, velocity, and distribution statistics of the streaming data. Based on this model, DRS decides on the amount of resource to allocate to each streaming operator to the system, so that (i) the Read More

In recent years’ 3D printing, has shown exponential growth in clinical medicine, research, and education (Carlos et al.). Imaging departments are at the center of 3D printing service delivery, efforts of establishing a 3D printing lab, and making it a unique contribution towards patient care (Kent Thielen et al.). Building a fully electronic medical record (EMR) integrated workflow to deliver 3D services offers unique advantages for cl Read More

Imagine you are sitting at a public coffee shop and using their free wifi on your work device. As long as you are connected to corporate VPN, you are well protected. The moment you go off, you are no longer protected. Your laptop is now open to being hacked and attacked at public wifi locations like airports, hotels, coffee shops, parks etc. My proposed solution involves an automated proactive cloud based threat intellige Read More