• Sustainable Concrete Mix Design: Experimental Study of Life-Size Columns 

  Abboud, Steven G. (Lebanese American University, 2025-08-05)

  Concrete is the most used material in the construction industry due to its strength, durability, and versatility. With material scarcity, landfill saturation, and concrete production being responsible for 8% of the global ...
• Performance Optimization of Monofacial and Bifacial Photovoltaic Systems 

  Haroun, Hanadi (Lebanese American University, 2025-07-16)

  This thesis explores the performance optimization of monofacial and bifacial photovoltaic systems through a combination of irradiance modeling, machine learning, and geometric analysis. A data-driven approach was developed ...
• Artificially Intelligent 3D-Printed Soft Gripper for Ripeness and Stiffness Identification 

  Basharoush, Mohammad (Lebanese American University, 2025-05-14)

  With the shortages experienced in the labor market, coupled with the growth of the agricultural industry, the need for autonomous and intelligent harvesting solutions has been steadily rising. Naturally, the field of ...
• Impacts of On-Grid Solar PV on Distribution Networks and Potential Solutions: A Case Study in the Region of Zahle 

  Korkmaz, Jessica (Lebanese American University, 2025-05-20)

  Recent years have witnessed an increase in the installation of solar photovoltaic-based distributed generators or PV DGs mainly in countries with high solar potential such as Lebanon. In this country among others, the ...
• A Multi-level fuzzy logic scheme for modeling complex problems 

  Banda-Tapia, July Diana; Herrera, Regina Ticona; Barrios-Aranibar, Dennis; Tekli, Joe; Chbeir, Richard (ITHEA, 2012)

  In this paper, we propose to exte nd traditional Fuzzy Logic(FL) techniques by creating a second set of inference rules (and the corresponding inference mechanism) in order to effectively produce results exploitable by ...
• Towards Semantic-based RSS Merging 

  Getahun, F.; Tekli, J.; Viviani, M.; Chbeir, R.; Yetongnon, K. (Springer-Verlag, 2009)

  Merging information can be of key importance in several XML-based applications. For instance, merging the RSS news from different sources and providers can be beneficial for end-users (journalists, economists, etc.) in ...
• Positive affect and self-care mediate the relationship between trait emotional intelligence and academic engagement in Lebanese undergraduates: Lessons learned from an online setting 

  Sanchez-Ruiz, Maria-Jose; Khalaf, Tatiana; Tadros, Natalie; Nauffal, Diane; Nader, Joelle; Diab, Rula; Akle, Barbar; Nassar, Elma (2024)

  We thank Saria Bechara, Tracy Chemaly, Monah Hassanieh, Christelle Kahale, Meiya Saad and Yasmina Yared for their contribution to the review of the manuscript. Maria-Jose Sanchez-Ruiz's work was supported by Ramón y Cajal ...
• Questionable Authorship Practices or Questionable Methodology? A Critique of “Using Bibliometrics to Detect Questionable Authorship and Affiliation Practices and Their Impact on Global Research Metrics: A Case Study of 14 Universities” 

  Saab, Samer S. (2025-01-23)

  This letter critically examines the methodology and conclusions of “Using Bibliometrics to Detect Questionable Authorship and Affiliation Practices and Their Impact on Global Research Metrics: A Case Study of 14 Universities”. ...
• Synthetic data : revolutionizing the industrial metaverse 

  Nassif, Jimmy; Tekli, Joe; Kamradt, Marc (Springer Nature, 2024-01-03)

  The book concentrates on the impact of digitalization and digital transformation technologies on the Industry 4.0 and smart factories, how the factory of tomorrow can be designed, built, and run virtually as a digital twin ...
• How Visual Data Is Revolutionizing the Industry World 

  Nassif, Jimmy; Tekli, Joe; Kamradt, Marc (Springer, 2024-01-04)

  This chapter briefly describes how Industry 4.0 technologies have placed digital multimedia data at the center of organizations of all sizes and across many industries. It describes the potential of harnessing the power ...
• Fast Text Classification using Lean Gradient Descent Feed Forward Neural Network for Category Feature Augmentation 

  Attieh, Joseph; Tekli, Joe (IEEE, 2024-05-29)

  Text classification is a key task of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) field that aims at assigning predefined categories to textual documents. Performing text classification requires features that effectively represent ...
• Fuzzy Data Deduplication at Edge Nodes in Connected Environments 

  Yakhni, Sylvana; Tekli, Joe; Chbeir, Richard (Springer, 2023-08-03)

  The Internet of Things (IoT) is ushering-in the era of connected environments, i.e., networks of physical objects that are embedded with sensors and softwar, connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems. ...
• Simulating Weather Events on a Real-world Map using Unity 3D 

  Noueihed, Hamza; Harb, Heba; Tekli, Joe (Springer, 2022-01)

  During the past decade, 3D simulation models have gained importance in the development of software solutions that aim to mimic real-world events and phenomena with increasing levels of accuracy and detail. In this paper, ...
• Low-Light Image Enhancement Using Image-to-Frequency Filter Learning 

  Al Sobbahi, Rayan; Tekli, Joe (Springer, 2022-05-17)

  Low-light image (LLI) enhancement techniques have recently demonstrated remarkable progress especially with the use of deep learning (DL) approaches. Yet most existing techniques adopt an image-to-image learning paradigm ...
• Unsupervised Extractive Text Summarization Using Frequency-Based Sentence Clustering 

  Hajjar, Ali; Tekli, Joe (Springer International, 2022-08-29)

  Large texts are not always entirely meaningful: they might include repetitions and useless details, and might not be easy to interpret by humans. Automatic text summarization aims to simplify text by making it shorter and ...
• Preprocessing Techniques for End-To-End Trainable RNN-Based Conversational System 

  Maziad, Hussein; Rammouz, Julie-Ann; El Asmar, Boulos; Tekli, Joe (Springer International, 2021-05-11)

  Spoken dialogue system interfaces are gaining increasing attention, with examples including Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and numerous other products. Yet most existing solutions remain heavily data-driven, and face ...
• Unsupervised Topical Organization of Documents using Corpus-based Text Analysis 

  Sarkissian, Sarkis; Tekli, Joe (The Association for Computing Machinery, 2021-11-09)

  This study aims at automating the process of topical keyword organization of set of documents in an input text corpus. It is conducted in the context of a larger project to investigate efficient unsupervised learning ...
• Almost Linear Semantic XML Keyword Search 

  Tekli, Joe; Tekli, Gilbert; Chbeir, Richard (The Association for Computing Machinery, 2021-11-09)

  Many efforts have been deployed by the IR community to extend free-text query processing toward semi-structured XML search. Most methods rely on the concept of Lowest Comment Ancestor (LCA) between two or multiple structural ...
• Depthwise Separable Convolutions and Variational Dropout within the context of YOLOv3 

  Chakar, Joseph; Al Sobbahi, Rayan; Tekli, Joe (Springer International, 2020-12-07)

  Deep learning algorithms have demonstrated remarkable performance in many sectors and have become one of the main foundations of modern computer-vision solutions. However, these algorithms often impose prohibitive levels ...
• Data Redundancy Management in Connected Environments 

  Mansour, Elio; Shahzad, Faisal; Tekli, Joe; Chbeir, Richard (The Association for Computing Machinery, 2020-11-16)

  Connected environments are typically defined as physical infrastructures (e.g., building) equipped with sensors that produce and exchange raw data. Although the sensed data is considered to contain useful and valuable ...

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