Browsing Faculty of Engineering & IT (Theses and Dissertations) by Issue Date
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Speech-to-speech example based translation: English to Arabic
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ArgDF: Arguments on the semantic web
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The Role of Shading as a Passive Strategy in Traditional Built Environment in Hot Climate
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2007-11)Some Middle Eastern countries are located in the hot climate zone and are rich in natural resources particularly oil and gas. In recent years, due to the high income from oil, they have started to develop the urban fabric ... -
Distributed and Flexible workflow coordination using defeasible logic programming
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2007-12)This is an exploration to foretell a future in which traditional approaches for developing workflow management systems can be supplanted by new techniques and emerging technologies. This thesis recommends sets of methodologies ... -
Decreasing the CO2 emissions and the embodied nergy in the UAE through the selection of sustainable building materials in the construction phase
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2008-01)A great quantity of CO2 is emitted to the atmosphere through the different phases of a building life cycle: in the production of materials and products, in the construction of the building itself, in the setting of the ... -
Infrastructure for Mass Argumentation Support on the Semantic Web
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2008-03)In this thesis,I present an OWL ontology for describing arguments and argument schemes. Following the same key principles of the World Wide Argument Web (WWAW) for building a large-scale Web of structured and inter-connected ... -
Increasing the air flow between buildings in high density urban areas in Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2008-03)This research is a study of how to increase the flow of natural ventilation in a high density urban area. It was carried out in Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Distance between the buildings ... -
Human Computation for Ontology Refinement
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2008-06)Ontology plays an important role in enabling the Semantic Web. Ontologies are used to represent a shared and common understanding of a domain of interest. The main bottleneck is knowledge acquisition in a dynamic environment ... -
An Online Cognitive, Adaptive, Practice based Approach for ITS: An Approach to IT professional certifications
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2008-10)With the development of WWW technology, web-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) are becoming an important area of research and development. The key benefit of web-based ITS is that it can be accessed by thousands of ... -
Multi-Agent Learning of Strategies in Abstract Argumentation Mechanisms
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2009-01)Argumentation has been studied extensively in the field of Artificial Intelligence, however we know very little about its strategic aspects. This thesis aims to contribute to this general problem by examining the behavior ... -
Studying the Effects of Listening to Quran on Human Mood
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2009-01)Many Muslims believe that listening to their holy book Quran, has an effect on their state of mind or mood. Each Surah of Quran emphasizes on a unique topic, warns of wrong doings and provides the correct way of handling ... -
How Global Coordination Can Be Achieved from Local Coordination in Social Networks
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2009-01)Coordination in natural and arti cial intelligent systems has attracted the attention of many scientists recently. However, little research has been conducted to understand the relationship between local coordination and ... -
Self-Organization and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Taxi Dispatch
(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 ... -
The Effect of Using Advanced Insulation Material on Indoor Temperature
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2009-02)Since UAE’s urban development started two decades ago, the constructions have been influenced by international high technology. As a result, the advanced developments are very different from the local traditional housing ... -
Investigations on the integration of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines in High-rise Buildings
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2009-04)The potential of wind energy as a renewable source is widely recognized these days, with wind farms multiplying all around the world. However another application for wind turbine is now gaining interest, the concept of ... -
A Study on Reducing Heat Gains through the use of Bio-Climatic Facades
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2009-04)For centuries, humans have built shelters that were bio-climatic and adapted to the region they belonged to. They achieved comfort within their enclosures without the over-dependence on electricity. But since the advent ... -
Empirical Studies in Computer-Mediated Interest-Based Negotiations
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2009-05)Negotiations in which participants exchange o ers based on their chosen positions can be extended to include dialogue about their interests. Revelation of negotiators' interests allows them to make more acceptable o ers ... -
On the Cognitive Plausibility of Abstract Argument Evaluation Criteria: The Case of Argument Reinstatement
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2009-06)Classical reasoning such as reasoning based on propositional logic is monotonic in the sense that adding new information does not remove any previously made conclusion. Common sense suggests that the failure of monotonic ... -
The effects of organizational culture on risk management during software development
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2009-06)The inevitable challenge of time, schedule, cost and scope in software projects has been a matter of concern even for powerful names like Microsoft and IBM. No matter how well equipped an establishment is, these projects ... -
Design for outdoor in a hot & dry climate: a study of outdoor thermal comfort in Dubai, UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2009-06)With the growing interest on sustainability, design consideration for thermal comfort in the outdoors is seen as an important factor enhancing the quality of life in the urban setting. The topic has received significant ...