Research List

This study seeks to explore the initiatives of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to launch smart cities through developing a framework of smart cities consisting of five pillars namely: infrastructure, health and primary education, technological readiness, innovation and finally, macroeconomic environment. These five pillars are measured using data collected [...]

The Bahraini smart city should have a reference model that precisely aligns the cloud oriented capabilities of the operating applications and technological infrastructure, along with the relevant business actors and strategy in order to meet smart city requirements. Unfortunately, findings revealed limited rigorous reference architectural models to service smart city [...]

Educational progress in universities is of an encompassing conception. It encloses several institutes, cultural aids, sports facilities, public libraries, etc. These elements could be included within either gated or non-gated campuses. This research aims at achieving advanced and integrated managerial policy all over the universities of the kingdom. Therefore, it [...]

Al-Ardah North is one of the oldest neighborhoods of Omdurman city in Sudan, which is affected by the increased interest in urban renewal and business investments. Rapid city growth and urban sprawl created some environmental and planning problems. Construction of large residential neighborhoods took place without considering other aspects such [...]

This project aims at building a quasi-static cooling system that utilizes the magneto-caloric characteristics of Gadolinium. The proposed technique presents itself as an attractive choice for smart cities and a better alternative to the vapor-compression-based cooling systems used in the industry today. With its electromagnet-based novel static design feature, the [...]

This paper’s aim is to develop a model for the household waste collection and transportation problem in the city of Sousse, one of the largest cities in Tunisia. Several vehicles with a finite capacity are located at the depot. The vehicles must collect the waste accumulated in all bins. The [...]

The reliability study is one of the major factor study to design, operation and maintenance of power system. Therefore, the reliability indices are important to be calculated. Based on the target of the study, the index required is calculated. Therefore, in the present study, the Loss of Load Expectation (LOLE) [...]

Many countries around the world are suffering from traffic jam created by the increase numbers of cars in their streets. This is reflected directly in increasing the number of accidents and casualties. As driver’s safety is considered important, most of the vehicle manufacturers are working to increase the safety standards [...]

The Arabian Gulf is considered as a hub for global oil industry. Thus the Arabian Gulf marine environment is under permanent threat from oil spills due to oil exploitation, production, and transportation. Oil pollution poses adverse effects on marine environment, society, and economy. Oil spill incidents that occurred in Bahrain [...]

Purpose: Ambulance response time is an important factor in saving lives and is highly linked with the ambulance location problem. The Maximum Expected Covering Location Problem (MEXCLP), introduced by Daskin (1983), is one of the most used ambulance location models that maximize the probability of stratifying demands for emergency medical [...]