Browsing Faculty of Engineering & IT (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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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 ... -
Arabic Sentiment Analysis using Machine Learning
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-09)Sentiment Analysis is a rising field that is gaining popularity every day due to its importance in mining the public opinions, the immense amount of generated data every second over the Internet via social network, microblogs, ... -
Arabic Sign Language Recognition: A Deep Learning Approach
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2022-05)With more than 300 sign languages across the world, sign interprets are not always available to translate spoken words into sign language and vice versa. As people with hearing and speech impairments rely on Sign Language ... -
Are healthcare organizations in the developing countries ready for the information-driven healthcare? A case study in the Arabian Gulf
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2015-07)It’s not a secret that the healthcare industry is in transition. Countries worldwide are striving to achieve healthcare system reform to provide more affordable and better care for individuals and population. Additionally, ... -
ArgDF: Arguments on the semantic web
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An Artificial Intelligence Approach for Predictive Maintenance in Electronic Toll Collection System
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2019-11)Predictive maintenance of Electronic Toll Collection System is a major subject in traffic engineering due to the complexity of the system and the difficulty of predicting the components failures. Two types of machine ... -
Artificial Intelligence Frameworks for Sentiment Variations’ Reasoning and Emerging Topic Detection
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2021-07)Utilizing Sentiment Analysis techniques to monitor public opinions on social media has been an essential yet challenging task in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Many studies were conducted during the last two ... -
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Government Smart Applications Customers’ Reviews
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-07)Nowadays, sharing opinions has been made easier with the evolvement of Web 2.0. People can share their opinions on their daily activities and consider others’ opinions to decide whether to buy a product or install an app ... -
ASSESMENT OF STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS DETERIORATED IN SEMI ARID ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2022-10)Deterioration of concrete is a prominent occurrence that happens due to several factors surrounding a structure making the place inhabitable with a risk to life and property. These factors and the impact of deterioration ... -
Assess the level of public awareness in UAE - Green roof & Facades (benefits & obstacles)
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-12)Introduction - Green roofs and façade are getting more and more popular across the globe, it’s not a new born concept it has been around since human lived in caves. Although the UAE has witness a major development in the ... -
Assessing Energy Saving Potential in Existing Buildings in Abu Dhabi through Passive Retrofitting Strategies: Case Study –Office Buildings
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-12)The UAE as a leading country in the region has set goals to reduce CO2 emissions by 2020 in line with Copenhagen Accord. However, the challenge is considered great since the UAE has been identified as one of the highest ... -
Assessment of Different Commissioning Service Methods and their Ability to Achieve the Performance KPIs in Educational Buildings in Abu Dhabi-UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-10)The vibrant growth of Abu Dhabi’s real estate, tourism and aviation sectors demand sustainable construction in the emirate, to minimise dynamic environmental impacts and to improve comfort levels in the built environment. ... -
Assessment of the Effectiveness of the Double Skin Facades (DSFs) Configurations on Enhancing the Energy Performance of Multi-Used Building in Hot-Arid Climate The Case in Al-Ain City-UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2021-10)Implementation of double-skin facades DSFs is a sustainable technical solution for enhancing energy performance of building, but the climatic conditions could affect the DSF performance. Al-Ain city-UAE is a hot-arid climate ... -
Assessment of Virtual Reality technology as a tool to enhance beauty and skincare e-commerce targeting Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2020-03)This paper explores whether a virtual shopping experience using immersive VR technologies can enhance and possibly substitute an in-store presence of a consumer shopping for beauty and skincare products. Differences in ... -
Automatic Control for Electrical Lamination Machine Using Least Effort Theory
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-05)This project studies the design of a multivariable control system of a lamination machine that utilizes the least effort technique. In order to get rid of the instabilities of the system, two loops were considered for the ... -
Automatic keyword extraction from a real estate classifieds data set
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2011-11)In this age where information and internet technologies are developing at a radical pace, users have the access to large amount of documents and information online. With the increasing amount of information, it also becomes ... -
Barriers in Implementing Zero Energy Building Policies in the United Arab Emirates
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2019-11)It is a well-known fact that human activities over the past few decades have led to the cause of climate change. Building sector is responsible for approximately 28% of the overall carbon emissions. To tackle this, several ...