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

Innovation KPIs in the UAE

Ebrahim, Mohammed Yousif (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2011-09)

Organizations have always searched for approaches that will bring them with benefits and will give them competitive advantages over their market opponents. Recently, organizations recognized the importance of innovation ...

Integrated design process (IDP): an approach for sustainable buildings in UAE construction industry

Zaher, Omar Khaled (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2011-04)

Integrated Water Resources Management Plan for the UAE

ALSHAIKH, SHAIKHA AHMAD (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2018-11)

Increased human populations, rapid economic developments, and climate change have driven many countries in the Middle East to suffer acute water shortages. Additionally, they have caused a decline in the supply and quality ...

Integrating rule-based approach and machine learning approach for arabic named entity recognition

Oudah, Mai Mohamed (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2012-05)

Named Entity Recognition is considered one of the crucial Information Extraction tasks in which many of Natural Language Processing applications rely on as an important pre-processing step. Named Entity Recognition has ...

Integration of Artificial Intelligence in E-Procurement of the Hospitality Industry: A Case Study in the UAE

Mathew, Elezabeth (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2020-05)

The hospitality industry is growing at an increasingly fast pace across the world which results in accumulating a large amount of data, including employee details, property details, purchase details, vendor details, and ...

Integration of Smart Sensors in Buildings to achieve Energy Efficiency in Hot and Humid Climate

JABR, BILAL SUDQI SAEED (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2021-07)

Relevant studies on the subject have revealed that a third of the global and primary energy in the world is being utilized in buildings and associated structures. It is also estimated that this utilization would grow to ...

Integration of Wind Catchers in Modern Residential Buildings in the UAE as a Means of Providing Thermal Comfort

Riza, Raashid (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2014-04)

This research is an evaluation of the effectiveness of wind catchers as means of providing thermal comfort for modern residential buildings in the hot arid climates in the UAE. Though this research involves a residence ...

Intelligent Energy Consumption for Smart Homes using Fused Machine Learning Technique

ALZAABI, HANADI OBAID (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2021-12)

Energy is an essential contribution for practically all exercises and is, in this way, imperative for development in personal satisfaction. Because of this explanation, valuable energy has turned into an expansion sought ...

Investigating Cross-Lingual Hate Speech Detection on Social Media

KHWILEH, HASSAN YOUSEF (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2020-01)

Social media platforms are becoming an integral part of our life. Massive amounts of content are being uploaded to social media platforms every second by online users. Social media sites are creating an exciting platform ...

Investigating energy savings due to implementing green roof on existing residential buildings in UAE

Alnaqbi, Athari Khamis (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-05)

In recent years, building energy consumption keeps rising due to growth in population, increasing demand for comfort in indoor environment and global climate changing. The contribution from buildings toward global energy ...

Investigating students' acceptance of E-learning system in Higher Educational Environments in the UAE: Applying the Extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)

SALLOUM, SAID ABDELRAHIM SAID (The British University in Dubai, 2018-03)

Recently, with the proliferation of internet technology, e-learning has become one of the important educational technologies in higher educational institutions. Nevertheless, the success of e-learning systems highly depends ...

Investigating Students’ and Faculty members’ Attitudes Towards the Use of Mobile Learning in Higher Educational Environments at the Gulf Region

Al-Emran, Mostafa Nadhir Hassan (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2014-12)

Recently, the way we learn has been shifted dramatically from traditional classrooms relying on printed papers into E-learning relying on digital/electronic pages. Modern educational technologies attempt to facilitate the ...

Investigating the causes and drivers of food waste in the hospitality sector in Dubai-UAE. Toward implementing food waste prevention strategies.”

SADEH, REHAM ZEYAD (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2022-12)

Saving natural resources to protect the planet and help sustain a better future for the generations requires focusing mainly on the three pillars of a sustainable society that are important for humans to live and interact. ...

Investigating the effect of Light Pipes, as Daylight Strategy, on Employee Performance Levels in High-Rise Office Buildings in the UAE

Asad, Dyala Sami (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2009-10)

Corresponding with the importance of daylighting, studies have established the non-energy related benefits of daylighting at office buildings. Quantitative studies and qualitative statements are utilized during the course ...

Investigating the Impact of Space Layout on the Energy Performance and Lighting Strategies – A Case Study of a Private School in the UAE

MALIHA, AZRA (The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2021-10)

Sustainable development of the built environment is one of the major focuses in the modern world. However, the building sectors consume a huge amount of energy globally, as a result, environmental managers are constantly ...