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Due to an increasingly connected society and industry, our modern societal world and all industry sectors now increasingly depend on large-scale complex Systems of Systems (SoS). The emerging interdisciplinary area of SoS and Systems of Systems Engineering (SoSE) is largely driven by societal needs including public services such as health, transport, water, energy, food security, etc. The scale, complexities and challenges presented by SoS require us to go beyond traditional Requirements Engi...

Users' feedback is a main source of knowledge on how users perceive the role of software in meeting their requirements. Collectively, such feedback helps shaping software autonomous and semi-autonomous adaptation decisions of what is called Social Adaptation. It also helps developers to identify loci in the system where an evolution should be introduced in the next release. Despite this role of users' feedback, there is a lack of systematic engineering approaches on how to design its acquisit...

Users' feedback is vital to improve software quality and it provides developers with a rich knowledge on how software meets users' requirements in practice. Feedback informs how software should adapt, or be adapted, at runtime and what evolutionary actions to take in the next release. However, studies have noted that accommodating the different preferences of users on how feedback should be requested is a complex task and requires a careful engineering process. This calls for an adaptive feed...

Even though billions of dollars in revenue have been generated from mobile game apps, there is still a knowledge gap with regard to mobile game user behavior and methodologies for predicting the likely success of mobile game apps during the development phase. This paper analyses game features and (Acquisition, Retention and Monetization) ARM strategies as primary drivers of mobile game application success. This study addresses these challenges through data driven research of the mobile gaming...

As the world economy shifts towards an increasingly globalised market, the degree of competition becomes a more significant challenge which organisations face. Within the construction sector, these effects can be further magnified due to the complexity and the heavily demanding nature of the industry. Construction projects are led by project managers who perform the role of a leader of the project and the involved team as a whole. In order to create a market edge to enable organisations to su...

Streaming, or tracking, that is, grouping students according to ability is a hotly debated topic in mathematics education. This study aims to examine the advantages and disadvantages of using streaming in mathematics as a differentiated strategy, followed by the following objectives: a) to explore teachers’ perceptions of using streaming; and b) to analyse the impact of streaming on students’ performance.Twenty-eight mathematics teachers at a private American-curriculum school in Dubai partic...

Humans have an unquenchable thirst for energy. Accelerated global economic and population growth are the main influencing factors that has led to the increase in electricity consumption. In addition, the release greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from energy resources such as the fast depleting fossil fuels whose prices are rising globally. Therefore, the key challenge is to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels which decreases the production of greenhouse gases such as CO2 and CH4 by using rene...

Project human resource management is gaining popularity among scholars as they try to investigate its relevance in enhancing the success of a firm, especially those operating in highly competitive industries. The study focused on investigating the role of project human resource management in the United Arab Emirates’ industrial sector. The data is collected from primary and secondary sources. The outcome of the study shows that there is a close relationship between effective project human res...

The present study is centered on construction of sustainable buildings in Jeddah. The main purpose of the study is to ascertain the relationship between present-day sustainability concerns, their contributing factors and underlying effects in Jeddah in order to find suitable and sustainable solutions for the construction sector in Jeddah. The study adopted mixed methodology approach, that is, both quantitative and qualitative methods. The survey instrument was a questionnaire targeting the b...

This research is aimed to emphasize upon the Knowledge Management in organizations focusing on tangible concepts, methods and theories for knowledge transfer from experienced and expert employees to fresh UAE National graduates hired recently in private organizations in the UAE. The study identifies the gap in knowledge transfer techniques from already existing literature, providing relevant recommendations keeping in view the feasibility of their implementation in definite highlighting areas...

This study was done to investigate the pre-service science teachers’ perception of critical thinking of science instruction and lesson planning in UAE’s schools. A sample size of 80 female pre-service teachers participated in this study from the College of Science Education in different institutions; UAE University, Ajman University and Higher Colleges of Technology in Fujairah, which offer training courses in different private and public schools in UAE. Mixed methods and analysis of lesson p...

Termination rights in relation to a contract are significant as a practical way of applying pressure on other party in the contract. However, exercising the rights of termination ought to be approached using extreme caution. International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) is a global body tasked with developing rules and regulations that ought to be put into consideration in the process of engaging in construction contracts. Thus, this body provides special guidelines on the conditio...

Termination rights in relation to a contract are significant as a practical way of applying pressure on other party in the contract. However, exercising the rights of termination ought to be approached using extreme caution. International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) is a global body tasked with developing rules and regulations that ought to be put into consideration in the process of engaging in construction contracts. Thus, this body provides special guidelines on the conditio...

Globally, the education sector plays an instrumental role in both the developed and emerging nations. Notably, the special education needs are critical as it enhances an ideal collaboration with all the education sector supporting human capital development and innovation. The study is based on the observation that Dubai, UAE has enacted significant changes in the education sector as a critical determinant of an inclusive educational system with SEN students included. Nevertheless, previous re...

The current research dissertation is on the topic – A discussion on the ways of dealing with risks embedded in project. It aims to analyse the strategies for reducing risks in the embedded project. The research mainly concentrates on concept and technique of risk management strategy to reduce the risks related with the project. In this entire process of research, the researcher evaluates the company’s current condition, the issues it is facing and the loopholes present in its risk reducing st...

I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude for the support and encouragement of numerous people whose contributions were important for me along the period of master program. The greatest goes to my God who enable me to fulfil the requirements of my master’s degree, and enabled me to overcome the obstacles that faced me at several stages of the program. Dr. Abdul Muneam Lhrech, my supervisor, provided me with enough help, and encouraged me with different guides, regulations, experience, ...

The recent refugee crisis is considered the most pressing humanitarian crisis the world is witnessing today. With 4.9 million Syrian refugees around the world, the Syrian refugee crisis has a major impact, not only on the Syrian refugees, but also on the host communities. Iraq is one of the main host countries of Syrian refugees, besides the Internally Displaced People (IDPs) inside the country caused by the internal conflict, resulting in an over exhaustion of its resources, infrastructure, ...

Traditional training, food testing, inspections, and adopting various food safety management systems are commonly used solutions to improve food manufacturing safety. Despite the implementation of these interventions, food borne illnesses, food product recalls, and food safety violations persist. With the purpose of improving food safety practices and performance, it is argued that food manufacturing firms focus on the behavioural issues of their food handlers. Previous studies have focussed ...

The risk management is one of the most important process in the project management. Recently, the focus increased in the risk management as it is crucial to achieve successful projects. In this dissertation the relationship between the risk management and project success is examined in the construction sector in the UAE. A model was created to examine this relation by reviewing and conducting comparative analysis between various risk management models and standards. Then, questionnaire was de...