Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year and 20 to 50 million people are injured or disabled. This made automated car accident prevention and detection a topic of extreme interest worldwide. However, as of yet, the different systems that have been proposed and implemented, do not take underdeveloped countries into account despite their greater need. This is probably due to the fact that this problem is already hard enough to tackle without adding more constraints to it. In addition, these constraints have not been identified and lack of awareness regarding the importance of this ...

Retail space planning is an accurate and complex process affecting the overall performance of a retail environment. Such task, confronting large retailers consisting of huge malls and hypermarkets, appears infinite in the absence of a complete automated process, starting from the store plan generation, passing by the optimal product assortment and finishing with the product-to-shelf allocation problem. Moreover, the ever-changing factors affecting the retail space planning process, such as merchandising rules, competitive strategies and consumer behavior require continuous follow-up and optimization ...

Quantum key distribution uses special purpose hardware and quantum mechanics to distribute cryptographic keys in a system for its usage in a classical symmetric key scheme for encryption and decryption. There are two appeals for going to such length of creating special hardware and utilizing quantum mechanics to distribute keys over parties. First, detecting eavesdropping on communication due to the fundamental properties of photons governed by quantum mechanics. Second, offering a solution to the byproduct effect of quantum computers breaking the most common asymmetric schemes (Transport Layer ...

The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the methods used to evaluate open source software in content management systems, and take a real case using open source content management software and illustrate the problem, evaluate the software, apply the evaluation methods and study its features. The software in this case is called Zope, which is an open source software application server used to design and build content management systems, intranets, portals and applications that are traditionally used. This software is written in the Python language, one of the most highly efficient object oriented ...

Geometric measure theory was developed in the second half of the 20th century to manipulate the structure and regularity questions in the calculus of variations. The main goal of this thesis is to introduce the theory of " rectifiability of sets". Rectifiable sets are considered smooth in a certain measure theoretic sense. Rectifiable sets are basic concepts in geometric measure theory. Their theory began with the study and determination of length, area or volume of sets in Euclidean space. Rectifiable sets have many of the desirable properties that smooth sets have. In this thesis, we will ...

Student academic advising is an educational decision support process required nowadays to be automated for both the student and advisor to speed up the planning process of course registration by finding out the optimal sequencing or prioritization of students degree requirements to enroll in for next semesters based on their academic standing in a way that suits students’ interests and meets overall graduation requirements within a time frame. This thesis integrated all the rules and constraints from all precedent references relevant to this subject that impacts the scheduling process and proposed ...

In today's world, protecting information has become one of the most difficult tasks. Cyber security events and data breaches continue to be expensive events that affect people and businesses all around the world. A breach occurs when sensitive information is accessed. Moreover, cyber threats are constantly evolving in order to take advantage of online behavior and trends, especially when teleworking has become a necessity due to the global invasion and prevalence of the Coronavirus disease 2019 during the past two years. Therefore, the necessity for cyber insurance, which covers the liability ...

The term spatial data signifies all geometric objects of different dimensions and the relations that could bind these objects together. Spatial data is, in general, divided into two parts: crisp spatial data and vague spatial data. Crisp spatial data has determinate coordinates and boundaries, whereas vague spatial data has indeterminate ones. The demand for spatial data support in database management systems is growing every day, yet not all commercial products provide spatial data support natively, and those that do merely provide it partially. Since database management systems are at the heart ...

Exoplanets are planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. During their motion around their star, due to gravitational effects, and due to the planet’s thermal and reflective radiation, small variations in the lightcurve could be detected (Esteves et al. 2015). Phasecurves are small-scale variations in planetary flux that arise from an exoplanet’s motion around its host star. If detected, the phasecurve can lead to determining the planet’s mass, its albedo, and it can give us an idea about its atmosphere. In this work we aim to detect these variations in the data from the K2 mission. To do this we ...

Pollution has long been a burden to humanity, and among the most prominent types is plastic pollution. Plastics have been an expedient source for human activity and progress, however its large carbon footprint and harmful effects on animals, humans and habitats outweighs its advantages. Despite recycling efforts, plastic’s non bio-degradability continues to harm the environment. Bioremediation has been the most recent endeavor in managing plastic pollution, where recently discovered microorganisms have shown the capacity to break down different types of plastics. This paper highlights all ...