Day 2 :
Keynote Forum
Avigdor Gal
Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Keynote: Big data integration: A meeting point of healthcare and data
Time : 10:15 - 11:00
Biography:
Avigdor Gal is a Researcher, specialized in Data Integration. He is a Faculty Member at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management (Technion). He has authored more than 100 journals, conference papers and multiple book chapters on topics related to Data Gathering, Integration and Analysis. His book “Uncertain Schema Matching” provides a solid foundation for uncertainty management of data from multiple data sources. He has given multiple keynote lectures and in-depth tutorials in leading research and industrial conferences. His research group collects and analyzes data from multiple sources, including RTLS data from hospital facilities and bus data from Dublin, Ireland.
Abstract:
Big data is a new phenomenon that translates into the ability to gather, manage and analyze large volumes of rapidly changing data from multiple sources with varying level of trustfulness. Big data is the main drive of innovation in healthcare technology and as a result the ability to bring together data from multiple sources and make them into a coherent corpus of information is at the very heart of contemporary data challenges. Starting from “Dr. Watson”, IBM’s shining promise to revolutionize healthcare, this talk will outline two main challenges that are tackled in the main data research communities (databases, artificial intelligence, and WWW), namely that of schema and ontology matching and that of entity resolution. The talk will also outline the use of uncertainty management (primarily probability theory) as a main tool to deal with big data integration. The talk is aimed at non-data science students, middle and senior researchers, providing accessibility to one of the hottest topics in research and industry today. With examples taken from the area of healthcare, the audience will be presented with the main challenges researchers face when analyzing big data, and will be provided with a sneak peek into state-of-the-art solutions to the big data integration challenge.
- Construction Management
Location: 1
Chair
Zin Eddine Dadach
Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE
Session Introduction
Naser Ali
Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait
Title: Assisting electrical demands for the widespread Indian fast food restaurants in Kuwait using a smart recycling rout
Biography:
Naser Ali has completed his MSc in Thermal Power Fluid Engineering from Manchester University. He has 3 years of teaching experience as an Instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Australian College of Kuwait (ACK) and 4 years of research experience in Kuwait Institute of Scientific Research (KISR). He has led several projects in the field of nuclear safety and risk assessment, nano coatings for enhancing energy efficiency, reverse engineering of wind turbines and biofuel.
Abstract:
Energy demands are proportionally increasing with the rise in population and developments in the country’s infrastructure. In Kuwait, most of the electricity is supplied from power stations that runs on diesel fuel supplied from Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC). Since the supply is constrained by the number of power stations currently existing and their maximum electrical deliverable capacity, it is essential to rely on other sources of energy. Biofuel, when produced from used cooking oils as a feedstock, has the potential to provide energy when combusted in a diesel generator while reducing environmental impacts caused from discharging its feedstock through inappropriate methods to the environment. This study compares the economic and environmental feasibility of utilizing used cooking oil and diesel fuel as a supportive energy source for a selected restaurant in Kuwait. This is done by designing a piping system for the used cooking oils in the restaurant contacted to a biodiesel production kit to produce the biofuel which is later feed to the diesel generator integrated with the main power supply. The yearly overall cost of electricity production from both paths were calculated and compared to determine the economical feasibility of each. The results showed that for the long terms it is more economical to use biofuel as a supportive source than petroleum diesel fuel. It also showed that biofuel produced from used cooking oils had less concentration of green gas emissions when combusted compared to petroleum diesel fuel.
Shabnam Najafi
KOC University, Turkey
Title: Coupling passenger and freight transportation in urban area
Biography:
Shabnam Najafi completed her Bachelor degree at Sharif University of Technology in Iran and pursuing her PhD in Industrial Engineering at KOC University in Turkey. She is working on Urban Transportation with Prof. Metin Turkay.
Abstract:
Cities are locations with high level of accumulation and concentration of economic activities. They are complex spatial structures supported by transportation systems. Nowadays, urban transportation is considered as an important subject in urban planning. It consists of passenger and freight transportation. Congestion is one of the most prevalent transport problems in large urban agglomerations. Pollution, including emissions, generated by different types of vehicles has become a serious impediment to the quality of life and even the health of urban populations. In this work, we develop a bi-objective sustainable optimization model with congestion constraint. Two objective functions in this model includes: minimizing freight and passenger transportation cost and CO emission. In this model, we consider freight and passenger transportation together as a new challenging framework in urban transportation area which has not considered before. We solve our model with constraint method in order to obtain Pareto points. We consider cost function as our objective function and put CO emission function in constraints. At last, we compare the results of proposed integrated model with the results of separate passenger and freight transportation models. We check if there is any improvement in value of objective functions.
Ali Alsaygh
Loughborough University, UK
Title: Applyign lean and green tools to oil and gas production operations: A single case study
Biography:
Ali Alsayigh is a PhD holder from the School of Civil and Building Engineering at Loughborough University, UK, studying under the supervision of Professor Stephen Emmitt and Wayne Lord. He has completed his MSc in Engineering Management (2009-2010) from the University of Greenwich in the UK. He has done his BEng in Mechanical Engineering (2008), from the University of Greenwich.
Abstract:
Oil and gas production operations are one of the main contributors to the greenhouse gas (GHG). They consume a significate amount of fresh water, hazard chemicals and energy to process and emit pollutants such as gas, volatile organic compounds and polluted water combines with crude. This paper explores the application of lean and green principle to oil and gas production operations which has been shown to reduce pollutants. This paper explores the use of lean tools such as value stream mapping (VSM) and Kaizen event to achieve lean principles; just in time delivery (JIT), reduce resources consumption in the process, reduce time of machine processing and to further identify the proportion that adds value. Research was conducted to assess the resources consumption of the oil and gas operations to environmental impact and waste reduction in the oil and gas industry. The research method is comprised of case study of a fossil fuel production company in Middle East, which included interviews, direct observation and analysis of the company documents. Analysis of the data, combined with an extensive literature review, showed the potential of applying lean principles and tools to the oil and gas operations to improves each single process and holistic operations which deliver enhancement to the environmental impact.
Shaghayegh Vedadi Moghaddam
Islamic Azad University, Iran
Title: A closed-loop supply chain with retail price, quality level and reference price considering return policy under game theory
Biography:
Shaghayegh Vedadi Moghaddam has completed her MSc in Industrial Engineering with Economic Systems Specialization from Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch. She has graduated in Industrial Engineering from Mazandaran University of Science and Technology. She has four research papers in international journals and conferences since 2014.
Abstract:
This paper develops a closed-loop supply chain with a manufacturer, a retailer and a third party where the manufacturer is the Stackelberg leader sells the product at a wholesale price in the market through a single retailer, and the retailer sells the product to the consumers at a retail price. The manufacturer faces three different reverse channels: (1) manufacturer-managed, (2) retailer-managed and (3) third party-managed channels. We formulated the model based on several assumptions. The market demand is assumed to be dependent on retail price, quality level, refund function and the reference price. The quality of the manufactured product is higher than the quality of the returned product. Meanwhile, re-manufactured products are sold at the same price in the market. It is been noted that the reference price affects the purchase decisions of the consumers. The manufacturer is responsible for satisfying the quality of the product at the quality level. The return policy implemented by the retailer. All players of the closed loop supply chain have an interest in cooperating as an integral system. The closed-loop supply chain formulated under three different scenarios mentioned above and then optimal policy is derived. Numerical examples are taken for each scenario to compare the optimal results and determine the best scenario out of the three mentioned, and study the effect of key model-parameters on the optimal decisions.
Abhishek Sushil
Manipal University Dubai, UAE
Title: Design and fabrication of solar powered floating pump
Biography:
Abhishek Sushil is currently pursuing B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering stream from Manipal University, Dubai campus. He is active members of Society of Automotive engineers (SAE International).
Abstract:
The current paper works on sustainable energy pumping system. It involves in a design of a pump which is freely floating on the surface of water/fluid which displaces from its original position depending upon the control. The solar floating pump consists of a floatation unit that is made of high density thermocol. The housing unit consists of a pump system that consists of an impeller connected to a 12V DC motor which is powered by a solar power system. The solar power system used consists of water proofed solar panels that is in a closed circuit with the motor. The results which are obtained are validated with the existing pump design. Overall, work concentrates mainly on stability, power generation and the discharge.