Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings Volume 2018 Issue 3

Online Social Networks (OSNs), such as Facebook and Twitter, are popular platforms that enable users to interact and socialize through their networked devices. However, the social nature of such applications forces users to share a great amount of personal data with other users and the OSN service providers, including pictures, location check-ins, etc. Even though some OSNs offer configurable privacy controls that limit a Read More

Mega data centers (DCs) are considered as efficient and promising infrastructures for supporting numerous cloud computing services such as online office, online social networking, Web search and IT infrastructure out-sourcing. The scalability of these services is influenced by the performance and dependability characteristics of the DCs. Consequently, the DC networks are constructed with a large number of netw Read More

This paper examines the impact on patient experience through the creation of a bespoke patient queuing and communication application using in-house developed technologies. Sidra Medicine hospital's outpatient pharmacy was experiencing mismanaged queue lines, dissatisfied patients, and the lack of data necessary to determine the length of time elapsing in obtaining medication. After analyzing patient surveys through the Read More

In this paper, we propose a novel method for the detection of road accidents by analyzing audio streams for road surveillance application. In the last decade, due to the increase in a number of people and transportation vehicles, traffic accidents have become one of a major public issue worldwide. The vast number of injuries and death due to road traffic accident reveals the story of a global crisis of road safety. A total of Read More

We present MATQAM (Multilingual Answer Triggering Question Answering Machine) a multilingual answer triggering open-domain QA system, focusing on answering questions whose answers might be in free texts in multiple languages within Wikipedia.Obtaining relevant information from the Web has become more challenging, since online communities and social media tend to confine people to bounded trends and ways Read More

Nowadays, inexpensive smart devices with multiple heterogeneous on-board sensors, networked through wired or wireless links and deployable in large numbers, are distributed throughout a physical process or in a physical environment, providing real-time, and dense spatio-temporal measurements and enabling surveillance and monitoring capability that could not be imagined a decade ago. Such a system-wide deplo Read More

Traditionally, in cellular networks, users communicate with the base station that serves the particular cell under coverage. The main functions of a base station can be divided into two, which are the baseband unit (BBU) functionalities and the remote radio head (RRH) functionalities. The RRH module is responsible for digital processing, frequency filtering and power amplification. The main sub-functions of the baseband proces Read More

I am a current student researching the findings from the QNRF NPRP grant, “Media Use in the Middle East” (NPRP 7-1757-5-261), a seven-nation survey by Northwestern University in Qatar. I am particularly interested in the potential of the Internet to increase feelings of political efficacy among citizens in the Arab region. The Internet has been shown to create feelings of political efficacy in many instances around the worl Read More

The impact and validity of driving simulators as an educational tool in driving schools in the licensing process remains questioned in literature. Many driving schools utilize driving simulators as a tool to assist students to learn required skills faster. Few studies showed conflicting results whether utilizing driving simulator is effective in improving the quality of driving education process. The applications of driving simulators are not Read More

Internet of things (IoT) is shifting the healthcare delivery paradigm from in-person encounters between patients and providers to an «anytime, anywhere» model delivery. Connected health has become more profound than ever due to the availability of wireless wearable sensors, reliable communication protocols and storage infrastructures. Wearable sensors would offer various insights regarding the patient's health (elec Read More