Browsing Masters Theses by College/Dept "Department of Industrial Engineering"
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Predicting Stock Prices in Dubai Financial Market Using Neural Networks and the Polynomial Classifiers
(2007-05)Predicting stock prices has always been the aim of investors in stock markets around the globe and has been considered as one of the most challenging applications of modern Time Series Forecasting. Accordingly, there were ... -
Progress Evaluation and Diagnosis Indices for Construction Projects-Omar's Diagnostic Technique
(2006-06)The construction industry constitutes a major part of the global economy. Large amounts of money are spent annually for the construction of residential, commercial, industrial, and other types of projects, including ... -
Risk in Forecasting Correct Directional Changes in Financial Times Series
(2012-05)Forecasting future moves of financial time series is an important task. Decision makers use different forecasting approaches. Regardless of the approach used, decision makers need to confident that the forecasting approach ... -
A Six Sigma Define Phase Methodology for Service-Level Compliance Processes
(2007-12)The world economy has been recently experiencing the shift towards services, a phenomenon that is referred to as services-based or services-led economy. A service generally combines activities of a more intangible nature, ... -
Socially Motivated Approach to Simulate Negotiation Process
(2014-05)Automated negotiation is treated as multi-disciplinary area of rigorous research consisting of Multi Agent Systems (MAS) such as optimization, decision support system, game theory and e-commerce. Thus, automated negotiations ... -
A Strategic Framework for a Smart Campus: American University of Sharjah Case Study
(2019-09)As the term smart campus attracts the professionals and academics from multiple disciplines, and the technology keeps intervening in every aspect of life; it becomes inevitable for the smart campus to take place and ... -
Sustainability-oriented innovation in the supply chain of the cosmetics industry
(2023-04)The cosmetic industry has continued its strong growth and emerged as one of the industries with the highest prospective for further growth and development. Social media and new trends, the availability of sustainable and ... -
A Systematic Approach to the Management of System Security Reengineering Process
(2005-05)With the increasing dependency on the electronic world for doing business using computers, palms, wireless devices, and the Internet, there is a need for revising the security measures and controls built into existing ... -
Technology Management and Analysis of Integrating Fuel Cell Systems in Gas Turbine Power Plants
(2013-04)In this thesis, comprehensive and detailed energy and economic analyses of integrating different types of fuel cells in gas turbine power plants are performed. The research investigates the performance of a hybrid system ... -
Three-Stage Forward and Closed Loop Supply Chain Models Under Consignment Stock Partnership
(2016-11)Achieving operational excellence is a vital goal ought to be emphasized throughout supply chain (SC) practices nowadays. The integration of raw material procurement decisions at the upstream stages, along with the production ... -
Transformations for Variants of the Travelling Salesman Problem and Applications
(2017-04)The Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a well-known problem in the operations research field. This research focuses on solving variants of the TSP through the use of proper transformations, which allows the use of existing ... -
Using Concept Maps and Fuzzy Set Information Retrieval Model to Dynamically Personalize RSS Feeds
(2011-01)Knowledge has always been at the heart of work and action of people. The amount of knowledge is growing and types of knowledge are becoming more diverse. Effective knowledge management may require going beyond basic knowledge ...