Browsing Dissertations for Informatics (Knowledge and Data Management) by Issue Date
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Speech-to-speech example based translation: English to Arabic
(The British Univesity in Dubai (BUiD), 2006-10) -
ArgDF: Arguments on the semantic web
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2007-02) -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Prenatal and postnatal information support through the web
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2009-11) -
Predicting User Behavior over the Web
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2010-01)Web Usage Mining is the application of discovering useful patterns from web data using statistical and data mining techniques. It has recently a wide range of applications in E-commerce web site and E-services such as ... -
Experimental evaluation of multi-agent reinforcement learning in real-world scale-free networks
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2010-01)Multi-agent reinforcement learning is a common method for optimizing agents' local decision in a distributed and scalable manner. However, the study and analysis of the state-of-the-art multi-agent reinforcement learning ... -
Security in wire/wireless networks: sniffing attacks prevention/detection techniques in LAN networks & the effect on biometric technology
(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 ... -
Colon cancer classification using microarray data
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2010-03)A thesis presented on the classification of cancerous and normal tissue samples using microarray data. In treating cancer time is of the essence and early detection can dramatically increase the chances of survival. Imaging ... -
Methodology for Weighted Social Networks Navigation
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2010-05)Our world is becoming an increasingly interconnected world. Connection between different people is being expanded dramatically especially after the vast use of technologies in this area. This expansion necessitates a deep ... -
ALNER: ARABIC LOCATION NAMED ENTITIES
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2010-10)This dissertation describes a rule based approach carried out to determine Location Named Entities in Arabic. ALNER, an Arabic Location Named Entities Recognition system, implements the rule based approach and is introduced ... -
Using Machine Learning to Improve Rule based Arabic Named Entity Recognition
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2011-01)Arabic Language is widely spoken and highly influential Language both politically and geographically. Thus it is crucial to perform Information Extraction on diverse Arabic texts. In past decade many researchers have ...