Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and energy use is necessary to stop the progress of climate warming, which may have a serious impact on the human environment and the ecosystem. To achieve this reduction, it is essential ...

The advent of the Internet enabled the sharing of information between people all around the world. Projects like Wikipedia have made human knowledge accessible to anybody with a simple mouse click. The Linked Data movement ...

As Advanced Driver Assist Systems (ADAS) increase in complexity, it becomes essential to be able to rapidly prototype and test these systems in a reproducible and reliable way. This work explores the problem of simulating ...

Recent developments in sensor networks, social media, process management and data analysis envisions interlinked devices, people, processes and data, constituting an Internet-of-Everything. These networks can be used to ...

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a paradigm which involves an agent interacting with an environment. The agent carries out actions in the environment and receives positive reinforcement for actions that are deemed “good” and ...

One of the biggest engineering concerns in the Middle East is the major delays in infrastructural projects which impact on both their quality and cost. A significant number of projects do not finish on time, are subject ...

Bone tissue engineering is a promising field with the potential to generate tissue substitutes, by taking advantage of mesenchymal stem cells ability to grow and produce tissue substitutes under specific physical conditions. ...

Collagen-based devices are frequently associated with foreign body response. Although several pre- (e.g. species, state of animal, tissue, isolation protocol) and post- (e.g. cross-linking, scaffold architecture, sterilisation) ...

The popularity of Online Social Networks (OSNs) has rapidly increased over the past few years. User modeling (including creating user interest profiles) and recommendation approaches in OSNs are important methods to deal ...

In 2013, the World Health Organization coined the term “Globesity” to highlight the importance of the epidemic and impact as a major health problem in many parts of the world (World Health Organization, 2013). Many believe ...