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  • Effectiveness of written corrective feedback 
    Diab, Nuwar Mawlawi
    The study examines the effect of form-focused corrective feedback (FFCF) on students’ ability to reduce pronoun agreement errors and lexical errors in new essays. Two experimental groups received on three assignments: ...
  • Statelessness under confessionalism. (c2017) 
    Molaeb, Karoline (Lebanese American University, )
    Being a citizen of a state is an inevitable right. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees approximates that there are around twelve million stateless people around the globe. The problem of statelessness stands ...
  • WSDL mutation for testing web services 
    Mansour, Nashat; Tarhini, Abbas; Siblini, Reda
    Web Services represent a recent promising software technology that provides application-to-application interaction. Web Services are described using Web Services Description Language (WSDL), and the Universal Description, ...
  • Mining airline data for CRM strategies 
    Mansour, Nashat; Maalouf, Lena (ACM, )
    In this paper, we apply data mining techniques to real airline frequent flyer data in order to derive customer relationship management (CRM) recommendations and strategies. Clustering techniques group customers by services, ...
  • General applicability of genetic and simulated annealing algorithms for data mapping 
    Mansour, Nashat; Kawash, Jalal; Diab, Hassan
    We experimentally analyze the general applicability of genetic algorithms (GA) and simulated annealing algorithms (SA) for mapping data to multicomputers. The results show that the GA and SA are insensitive to user parameters ...
  • Beyond power-sharing. (c2017) 
    ZeinEddine, Mariam Ibrahim (Lebanese American University, )
    This thesis aims to contribute to the literature on the resolution of ethnic conflicts. By analyzing Bosnia-Herzegovina, Burundi, and Rwanda, it explores the components of a peace agreement, establishing what is necessary ...
  • Search algorithms and applications 
    SAS; 198629170; Computer Science and Mathematics; Mansour, Nashat; Kanj, Fatima; Khachfe, Hassan; nmansour@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
  • Strategizing gender in military practices. (c2017) 
    Kandil, Amani T. (Lebanese American University, )
    The terrorist attacks that took place on the 11th of September 2001 rapidly ushered in a Global War on Terror that was announced by President George W. Bush and his administration. This study examines the participation ...
  • The rise of Qatar as a soft power and the challenges. (c2017) 
    Al-Thani, Mohamed (Lebanese American University, )
    Qatar has risen to prominence as a soft-power nation state that have overcome a number of limitations in international relations. The prominence of the country relative to its size is of remarkable importance in the study ...
  • Counterterrorism in the west and the challenges it presents to human rights. (c2017) 
    Rayes, Nour Asmat (Lebanese American University, )
    Violent extremism has been a security concern for countries worldwide, especially following the attacks on September 11th, 2001. Since then, the face of counterextremism has changed, and human rights principals have been ...
  • Physical optimization algorithms for mapping data to distributed-memory multiprocessors 
    Mansour, Nashat (Syracuse University, )
    We present three parallel physical optimization algorithms for mapping data to distributed-memory multiprocessors, concentrating on irregular loosely synchronous problems. We also present a technique for efficient mapping ...
  • Metaheuristics for portfolio optimization 
    Mansour, Nashat; El-Bizri, Sarah (Springer, )
    Portfolio optimization refers to allocating an amount of investors’ wealth to different assets in order to satisfy the investors’ preferences for return and risk. We address the portfolio optimization problem with real-world ...
  • A hybrid genetic algorithm for task allocation in multicomputers 
    Mansour, Nashat
    A hybrid genetic algorithm for the task allocation problem (HGATA) in multicomputers is presented. It minimizes the possibility of premature convergence and finds good solutions in a reasonable time. HGATA includes elitist ...
  • An evolutionary approach to load balancing parallel computations 
    Mansour, Nashat; Fox, Geoffrey C.
    We present a new approach to balancing the workload in a multicomputer. It is based on a genetic algorithm that combines a number of design choices in order to ameliorate the problem of premature convergence. The genetic ...
  • Fragment-based computational protein structure prediction 
    Mansour, Nashat; Terzian, Meghrig
    Proteins consist of sequences of amino acids that fold into 3-dimensional structures. The 3-dimensional configuration determines a protein’s function. Hence, it is very important to determine the correct structure in order ...
  • Three-phase simulated annealing algorithms for exam scheduling 
    Mansour, N.; Tarhini, A.; Ishakian, V. (IEEE Xplore, )
    Scheduling of final exam usually results in conflicts and inconvenience. Conflicts occur when simultaneous exams are scheduled for the same student, and inconvenience to a student refers to consecutive exams or more than ...
  • Comparative evaluation of object request broker technologies 
    Mansour, N.; Nammour, F. (IEEE Xplore, )
    Summary form only given. Corba, Java RMI, and WebServices are among the most popular object request broker technologies. These technologies have allowed replacing message-based network collaboration with method invocations ...
  • Parallel metaheuristic algorithm for exam timetabling 
    Mansour, Nashat; Sleiman Haidar, Ghia (IEEE Xplore, )
    Exam timetabling is a computationally intractable problem, which requires heuristic techniques for producing good sub-optimal solutions within reasonable execution time. For large numbers of exams and students, sequential ...
  • Trends in developing metaheuristics, algorithms, and optimization approaches 
    SAS; 198629170; Computer Science and Mathematics; Mansour, Nashat; Sleiman-Haidar, Ghia; nmansour@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
  • Mapping realistic data sets on parallel computers 
    Mansour, N.; Ponnusamy, R.; Choudhary, A.; Fox, G.C. (IEEE Xplore, )
    Mapping data to parallel computers aims at minimizing the execution time of the associated application. However, it can take an unacceptable amount of time in comparison with the execution time of the application if the ...

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