Browsing Faculty of Engineering & IT (Theses and Dissertations) by Title

Security in wire/wireless networks: sniffing attacks prevention/detection techniques in LAN networks & the effect on biometric technology

Al-Hemairy, Moh'd Hussain (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2010-02)

During the past era, Information Technology made a revolution in R&D. No double internet becomes an essential backbone of all sciences and research nowadays. Accordingly security threats and data banks attacks turn out to ...

Seismic Retrofitting of Reinforced Concrete Structures

KANDY, ARCHANA THUNDY (The British University in Dubai, 2018-10)

In the current scenario of ever-increasing incidence of earthquakes around the world, we need to carry out a macro level study and review the causes of earthquakes and consequential effects of it and identification at ...

Seismic strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Structures using External Lateral Post Tensioning

Murugesan, Usha (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2021-04)

The constructions of buildings before the 1970s where not in coherence with the seismic design or any type of seismic codes hence the buildings have to be investigated and do the necessary strengthening to withstand the ...

Self-Organization and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Taxi Dispatch

Alshamsi Omran, Aamena Ali Ahmed (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2009-02)

The taxi dispatch problem involves assigning taxis to callers waiting at different locations. An adjacency-based dispatch system currently in use by a major taxi company divides the city(in which the system operates) into ...

Sensitivity analysis of work plane illuminance to room surface reflectance values

WAFI, RANA BASHIR (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2018-11)

Nowadays, the employees spend around 8 to 10 hours a day in their offices , therefore, the creating of right work environment is an essential matter in today’s designs for offices. However , some people till today don’t ...

Sensory Pollution from Treated Wood Panels on Perceived Air Quality and Human Comfort

El Danaf, Taher Salah (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-04)

The aim of the present study is to examine the effects of sensory pollution from treated wood panels, commonly used in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on perceived air quality (PAQ) and human comfort. Human subjects between ...

Sentiment analysis for Arabic

Siddiqui, Sanjeera (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2015-12)

Named Entity Recognition, Question Answering, Information Retrieval, Machine Translation, etc. fall under the tasks that follow Natural Language Processing approaches wherein Sentiment Analysis uses Natural Language Processing ...

Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Social media Movie Reviews Using Deep Learning

MEZAHEM, FATEMA HAMAD (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2022-10)

This work is to apply sentiment analysis SA for Arabic movie reviews on social media. Automatically detecting attitude or sentiment in a text is often helpful. By classifying the data into positive, negative, or neutral ...

Sentiment Analysis for opinion leaders on Twitter: A Case Study of COVID-19

MIR, REEM SAJID (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2022-11)

The coronavirus or COVID-19 is an ongoing global problem where a pandemic was implemented early in 2020 during the outbreak. Social media platforms were used during the pandemic to share views and exchange information. ...

Shortest-time route finding using inter-vehicular communication

Chaqfeh, Moumena Abdullah (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2011-03)

Simulation & Analysis of the Helicopter Transmission System

LASFER, ABDALLAH (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2019-01)

This report analyzes the main shafts of the helicopter transmission box. The corresponding behavior of the shafts, gears, and blades are monitored and studied. Three different methods were used to analyze the set of systems ...

Simulation Study of Thermal Effects of Vegetation Covered Sand dune mounds within the Landscape around Urban Structures in the UAE

Al-Yaqoob, Dana (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2012-06)

Urbanization is one of the many factors that have caused numerous environmental concerns around the world. Such issues that are the root subject of concern is Urban Heat Island effect, a condition that describes the ...

“Smart Home” - From A Concept To A Living Product in the UAE

Ataei, Bahareh (The British University in Dubai (BUID), 2019-09)

Smart Home has a significant role in assessment of requisite appliances and systems. The recent developments in the Internet of Things (IoT) have used technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning ...

Smart Safe Cities Technology Architecture to Assure Citizens’ Happiness and Future Foresight to Achieve United Arab Emirates 100 Year Vision: Response Readiness, National Resilience and Future Accelerations

AL HASSAN, MOHAMMAD KHALED (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-07)

Smart cities have emerged quite rapidly across the globe, be it the Masdar City in partuclar Abu Dhabi the capital of UAE, or in London, or Washington irrespective of the economy being developed, developing or emerging. ...

Social Commerce Trust Factors and Users' Perspectives: A Study in UAE Based on Trust-Extended Technology Acceptance Model

Abdulrazzaq, Reem (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2019-12)

Nowadays, social commerce has been turned into the most interactive and the most convenient way in online shopping. Despite having multiple risks when performing a purchase through social networks, yet it is becoming the ...

Society 5.0 A human-centered society that balances economic advancement with the resolution of social problems by a system that highly integrates cyberspace and physical space

ALHEFEITI, FATMAH SAIF OBAID (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2018-11)

We aim at creating a society where we can resolve various social challenges through digital transformation program; the government of Japan addresses the necessity of acquiring a digital transformation of the society. The ...

Solar PV Construction Project Delays and Mitigation Strategies to Enhance Projects Timeline Performance A case study From Dubai’s Environment

AL-KHALIDI, ABDULRAHMAN BASIL (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2022-11)

Distributed renewable generation projects are currently taking the major focus worldwide since it acts as the key enabler to the advanced grid structures such as smart grids and Virtual Power Plants (VPPs). The solar PV ...