Browsing Faculty of Engineering & IT (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Achieving Sustainable Outdoor Thermal Comfort in the American University of Sharjah Campus
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-09)There are many factors that impact and influence the success of an urban space. Numerous physical and social environment components and location of the given space in the city are all key components that play part. This ... -
Achieving sustainable regeneration and walkable communities through investigation of different urban configurations in Dubai, UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-10)One of the major challenges facing urban planners in Dubai is the rapid growth of population. New developments were constructed within the last few years which caused the urban sprawl to reach the edge of the city. In this ... -
Achieving thermal comfort by applying passive cooling strategies to courtyard houses in Dubai (UAE)
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2014-05)A passive design approach is centered upon integrating the microclimatic requests into the design to accomplish advanced comfort levels with lower energy depletion. The purpose of this research was to examine the cooling ... -
ADAPTATION OF BIM WORKFLOW IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING PROJECTS & THE NEED TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL BIM STANDARD
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2020-02)The Introduction of the concept of BIM into the construction industry, have made significant changes to the working standards and workflow pattern. This thesis examines the said changes in comparison to the traditional ... -
Adaptive Secure Pipeline for Attacks Detection in Networks with set of Distribution Hosts
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2022-01)Currently, malware continues to represent one of the main computer security threats. It is difficult to have efficient detection systems to precisely separate normal behavior from malicious behavior, based on the analysis ... -
Adoption of Greywater Reuse Systems in Hotels in Abu Dhabi
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2021-12)Availability of water resources has become a global issue that is imperative to resolve to achieve sustainable growth for generations to come. Various solutions have been launched to conserve the environment in all its ... -
Advanced Composites as Reinforcement for Concrete
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2021-05)Recently, the demand for building concrete structures reinforced with steel rebars is gradually increasing worldwide. The serviceability of these reinforced concrete structures is affected by multiple factors, one of which ... -
Agent Based Modeling to Optimize Supermarkets Spatial Dimensions
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2019-05)The purpose of our research is to study the impact of supermarket size and spatial dimensions on crowding. To improve supermarkets layout from the social aspect, to increase the human comfort and reduce crowding. Despite ... -
Aircraft wing flutter control
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-06)This research includes the design of a multivariable control system for aircraft wings. Two objectives are desired. The first is to control the vibrational problem for low-speed flight by applying a feedback control strategy. ... -
ALNER: ARABIC LOCATION NAMED ENTITIES
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2010-10)This dissertation describes a rule based approach carried out to determine Location Named Entities in Arabic. ALNER, an Arabic Location Named Entities Recognition system, implements the rule based approach and is introduced ... -
Alternative Facades: Assessment of Building Integrated Photovoltaic and Electrochromic Glazing— Energy Benefits and Future Potentials in Office Building in UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2010-12)With the decline of conventional fossil fuels and the rapid growth of human population, the importance of curbing our energy consumption and reducing our dangerous emissions is now more obvious than ever. Since buildings ... -
ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE ACTION OF PRECAST HOLLOW CORE SLABS AND CAST IN PLACE MESH REINFORCED CONCRETE TOPPING
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2019-09)Considering composite action of hollow core slab with cast in place mesh reinforced concrete topping helps to provide longer hollow core slabs and reduces the overall weight of the structure. Research has shown that ... -
An Analysis of the Forces Influencing the Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in the Intellectual Property Sector in UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2021-06)The study at hand considers the way in which the potential for the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasing in the current paradigm of social and economic change. This paper will consider the various ... -
An Analysis of Thermal Comfort at the School Outdoor Spaces: A Case Study of the American School of Creative Science, Dubai, UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2022-06)Outdoor school spaces are significant spaces which, regardless of a child’s residential area, provide great opportunity for outdoor space exploration leading to overall enhancement to the students’ wellbeing. This paper ... -
Analyzing the structural cost, performance, and flexibility in the terminal design of Mumbai Airport
(The British University in Dubai, 2018-09)The recent growth in the aviation industry has led to the highest necessity for the development in designing the airports. Statistics are available for a few airports, but there is no comprehensive base of information on ... -
Applying morpho-emergent theory to the evolution of public buildings: new design strategies for the building envelopes
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2014-04)Recent accelerating concerns about the ramifications of global warming have enhanced the need for finding unconventional solutions. The versatility and vicissitudes of nature highlight survival abilities as a main feature ... -
Applying Passive Design Strategies to Achieve Energy Efficient Mosque in UAE: The Case of Uptown Mirdif Mosque
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2021-09)Energy and electricity have become a basic and necessary need that must be available in any place where the population is located, especially to use air-conditioning devices to obtain a comfortable thermal environment in ... -
Arabic Image Captioning (AIC): Utilizing Deep Learning and Main Factors Comparison and Prioritization.
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2022-02)Captioning of images has been a major concern for the last decade, with most of the efforts aimed at English captioning. Due to the lack of work done for Arabic, relying on translation as an alternative to creating Arabic ... -
Arabic Parser Evaluation and Improvements
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-06)This thesis focuses on comparing between two famous Arabic parsers Stanford Parser and Bikel parser using Arabic Treebank (ATB) for model training and testing and for this purpose we created a software that enables us to ... -
Arabic Question Answering from diverse data sources
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2018-07)Currently, Arabic users are still forced to extract manually the accurate answers of their questions, which is a difficult task with a vast amount of information available on the Internet. Actually, the existing Arabic ...