Guidelines and ranking criteria are very important to evaluate buildings. In order to evaluate and define a building as a smart building there should be a criteria or guideline base. In other words an assessment checklist ...

Dubai claims that by 2020 it will be a people with disability friendly city. It was important to examine the following aspects; first the extent to which the city serves people with disability at this crucial stage, second ...

Our surrounding environment is effected significantly due to the buildings impact which is a result of excessive energy consumption. Residential and commercial buildings use about 40% of the world total primary energy ...

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 ...

New applications are implemented every day in companies all over the Globe. The majority of these applications do not deliver the promised return on investment due to low user adoption rates. This research is targeting the ...

Twitter micro-blogging website is a hot and emerging area of research recently, users on Twitter post millions of tweets every day from all over the world, it is very difficult and challenging task to keep track of messages ...

Data mining is defined as the discovery of previously unknown patterns and relationships between stored data and represents the interesting information in understandable format. On the other hand, text mining is also looks ...

This study was conducted with the aim of finding the benefits of data mining on small businesses and specifically on the real estate sector in Dubai, and the criteria to be used when evaluating and selecting the best tools ...

High degrees of competition and globalization in fact made it imperative for nations to adopt systematic methods at the various stages of developmental planning in order to create or improve the designs for the benefit of ...

Urban heat islands are phenomena that occur coupled with rapid urban developments. The study was carried out to show the effect of organic and structured urban configurations on temperature variations throughout the year, ...