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Reducing material convergence in disaster environments: The potential of trusted change agents
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
The research in this paper seeks to advance the effective management of one of the most intractable aspects of disaster response phenomena: material convergence-the sudden and mostly uncoordinated arrival of physical ...
Perspectives on food waste management: Prevention and social innovations
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article Review)
Food waste is one of the challenging issues humans are facing. A third of the food produced in the world is wasted at various points along the food supply chain. Food waste can be reduced by developing technology that can ...
An eco-friendly closed-loop supply chain facing demand and carbon price uncertainty
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Springer
, 2022 , Article)
The greenhouse gas emissions due to the energy use in production and distribution in a supply chain are of interest to industries aiming to achieve decarbonization. The industry subjected to carbon regulations require ...
System requirements and optimization of multi-chillers district cooling plants
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
District cooling systems (DCS) are particularly important in the Middle East due to higher overall temperatures on most days of the year. The design, operation, and control of a new DCS should consider the abundant ...
A Framework for Prioritization and Selection of Strategic Projects
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2022 , Article)
Strategic projects are critical for the sustenance of an organization; however, they are subject to different types of constraints in terms of risk, management capabilities, resources, and political and cultural factors. ...
Enabling Open Innovation in Digital Startups through the Incubation Program-A Case of Qatar
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MDPI
, 2022 , Article)
Researchers have studied open innovation by focusing primarily on big organizations. With digitization, the adoption of open innovation has become widespread, as there is broader access to cheaper and better information ...
A sorting based efficient heuristic for pooled repair shop designs
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
In this paper, we address the assignment problem of skills to servers (e.g., repairmen) in a multi-server repair shop of a spare parts supply system. This type of assignment problems tends to be hard in general, due to the ...
Providing project management knowledge and skills through scaffolding and project-based learning strategy
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Emerald Group Holdings Ltd.
, 2021 , Article)
Purpose: Project management skills are important for today's engineers, as they get involved in various project-based employment roles. The purpose of this paper is to discuss a learning model to provide project management ...
Risk analysis with the dempster-shafer theory for smart city planning: The case of qatar
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MDPI
, 2021 , Article)
Smart cities support the enhancement of the quality of life of their residents, for which the use of a robust integrated platform of information and communication technology is required. However, not all cities have similar ...
Smart City Perspectives in the Context of Qatar
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Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
, 2022 , Conference Paper)
The smart city concept is being implemented in different countries. In order to make such a concept successful, countries need to invest heavily in information and communication technology and provide opportunity to utilize ...