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  • 2015 International Conference on Clean Electrical Power (ICCEP) 
    Ghajar, R.; Chedid, R.; Baydoun, I.; Eid, S.; Tarhini, S.; SOE; 199590160; Electrical And Computer Engineering; rghajar@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (IEEE, )
    Electrical demand continues to increase in both developing and developed countries. In Lebanon, the cost of electricity is relatively high because the utility burns expensive heavy fuel oil and gasoil in low-efficiency ...
  • Evaluation of the marginal outage costs in generating systems using quantitative power system reliability techniques 
    Ghajar, R.F.; SOE; 199590160; Civil Engineering; rghajar@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Marginal outage costs are an important component of electricity spot prices. This paper describes a methodology based on quantitative power system reliability techniques for calculating these costs in generating systems. ...
  • Comparison of two alternate methods to establish an interrupted energy assessment rate 
    Ghajar, R.; Billinton, R.; Oteng-Adjei, J.; SOE; 199590160; Civil Engineering; rghajar@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Quantitative reliability evaluation is an important aspect of power system planning and operation. The indices produced in these applications are utilized in a wide range of management decisions throughout a utility. One ...
  • A Monte Carlo simulation model for the adequacy evaluation of generating systems 
    Ghajar, R.; Billinton, R.; SOE; 199590160; Electrical And Computer Engineering; rghajar@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Monte Carlo simulation can be used to provide an attractive alternate approach to direct analytical evaluation in generating system adequacy studies. The simulation approach provides the ability to relax some of the ...
  • Comparison of alternative techniques for evaluating the marginal outage costs of generating systems 
    Ghajar, R.; Billinton, R.; SOE; 199590160; Electrical And Computer Engineering; rghajar@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Quantitative evaluation of the marginal outage costs associated with generating systems involves, among other things, the construction of a model of the system capacity outages. This model is inherently discrete and ...
  • Time-series models for reliability evaluation of power systems including wind energy 
    Ghajar, R.; Billinton, R.; Chen, Hua; SOE; 199590160; Electrical And Computer Engineering; rghajar@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    An essential step in the reliability evaluation of a power system containing Wind Energy Conversion Systems (WECS) using sequential Monte Carlo analysis is to simulate the hourly wind speed. This paper presents two different ...
  • Benefit and risk analysis of an automatic meter reading system for electricité du Liban 
    Ghajar, Raymond F.; SOE; 199590160; Electrical And Computer Engineering; rghajar@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    This paper summarizes the benefit and risk analysis of a study for modernizing the electricity metering, billing and revenue collection systems for ´Electricit´e du Liban, the national power company of Lebanon. A cost/benefit ...
  • A simulation model for reliability-based appraisal of an energy policy 
    Ghajar, R.F.; Hamdan, H.A.; Chedid, R.B.; SOE; 199590160; Electrical And Computer Engineering; rghajar@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    The Lebanese Electric Power System (LEPS) has been suffering from technical and financial deficiencies for decades and mirrors the problems encountered in many developing countries suffering from inadequate or no power ...
  • Turning solid waste incineration ashes into a usable material in construction 
    Chatila, Jean G.; Abishdid, Sharbil; SOE; 199690300; Civil Engineering; jchatila@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    This paper describes a largely experimental investigation for turning solid waste incineration ashes into a usable material in concrete construction. The result is a method for incineration ashes to be disposed of in an ...
  • On inert tracer modeling in a compound open channel 
    Chatila, Jean G.; Townsend, Ron D.; SOE; 199690300; Civil Engineering; jchatila@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    This study investigates the impact on the pollutant transport and mixing processes of strong lateral momentum transfer effects associated with severely compound flow fields. Consideration was limited to conservative, ...
  • A relation between grain size and process parameters in friction stir processing of AZ31B 
    Ammouri, A.H.; Hamade, R. F.; SOE; 201306469; N/A; ali.ammouri@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Introduced in this work is a relation that captures the behavior of grain size with the varying process parameters in friction stir processing of AZ31B. The relation was based on the results of a 3D FE model that was ...
  • Agent-based model for simulating construction safety climate in a market environment 
    Awwad, Rita; Abi Shdid, Caesar; Tayeh, Ralph; SOE; 199906210; 199431340; Civil Engineering; rita.awwad@lau.edu.lb; caesar.abishdid@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    A strong construction safety climate is sought after by governments, owners, and insurance providers. When making safety policy changes, legislative bodies and construction stakeholders alike try to successfully predict ...
  • Understanding dispute resolution in the Middle East region from perspectives of different stakeholders 
    Awwad, Rita; Barakat, Boushra; Menassa, Carol; SOE; 199906210; Civil Engineering; rita.awwad@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    The construction industry in the Middle East (ME) is witnessing continuous growth that attracts international contractors and investors to its large-scale projects. However, this growth is accompanied by an inevitable ...
  • Enhanced lithium–oxygen battery performances with Pt subnanocluster decorated N-doped single-walled carbon nanotube cathodes 
    Fawaz, Wissam; Chitturi, Venkateswara Rao; Ara, Mahbuba; Ng, K. Y. Simon; Arava, Leela Mohana Reddy; SOE; 200602957; Electrical And Computer Engineering; wissam.fawaz@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Achieving dramatic improvement in long-term cycling performance in Li–O2 batteries continues to remain a challenge, which is imperative for turning their alluring promise into reality. Developing a bifunctional cathode ...
  • A first step towards the resolution of the starvation problem in multi-point-to-point ICRCNs 
    Fawaz, Wissam; Atallah, Ribal; Khabbaz, Maurice; SOE; 200602957; Electrical And Computer Engineering; wissam.fawaz@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    This letter revolves around an Intermittently Connected Roadside Communication Network (ICRCN) scenario consisting of isolated source Stationary Roadside Units (SRUs) exploiting mobile smart vehicles as store-carry-forward ...
  • Improved EDF-based management of the setup of connections in opaque and transparent optical networks 
    Fawaz, Wissam; SOE; 200602957; Electrical And Computer Engineering; wissam.fawaz@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    The need to support the diverse quality-of-service (QoS) requirements of the ever-emerging Internet applications is a major challenge for optical network operators. This paper tackles such a challenge through the definition ...
  • An Overview of the Semantic Web Improving Web Data Accessibility and Performance 
    Tekli, Joe; Abou-Rjeily, Antoine; Hongue, Pélagie; Yetongnon, Kokou; Chbeir, Richard; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
  • An XML Document Comparison Framework 
    Tekli, Joe; Chbeir, Richard; Yetongnon, Kokou; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    As the Web continues to grow and evolve, more and more information is being placed in structurally rich documents, XML documents in particular, so as to improve the efficiency of similarity clustering, information retrieval ...
  • An overview on XML similarity 
    Tekli, Joe; Chbeir, Richard; Yetongnon, Kokou; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    In recent years, XML has been established as a major means for information management, and has been broadly utilized for complex data representation (e.g. multimedia objects). Owing to an unparalleled increasing use of the ...
  • Semantic-based merging of RSS Items 
    Tekli, Joe; Chbeir, Richard; Viviani, Marco; Yetongnon, Kokou; Taddesse, Fekade Getahun; SOE; 201306321; Electrical And Computer Engineering; joe.tekli@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Merging XML documents can be of key importance in several applications. For instance, merging the RSS news from same or different sources and providers can be beneficial for end-users in various scenarios. In this paper, ...

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